KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) Knoxville City Council approved a measure Tuesday to authorize the Knoxville Community Development Corporation to draft a North Waterfront Redevelopment Plan — a framework aimed at improving public access, walkability and infrastructure along Neyland Drive before major nearby development is complete.
The plan would cover a stretch of underutilized land from Maplehurst toward Third Creek, running along the Tennessee River corridor near downtown and the University of Tennessee campus.
What the plan would do
KCDC says the redevelopment plan is not a single building project. Instead, it would establish broad goals for the area and create funding tools the city could use to pay for infrastructure improvements — including stormwater upgrades, utility work and greenway enhancements — as large-scale development moves in nearby.
“Stormwater improvements, undergrounding of utilities, but also improvements to greenways, improvements to open space, better access to the Tennessee River — those types of things that the public is really going to get a benefit from,” a KCDC representative said…