Project Site and Boundaries
The Revitalization Area consists of a two-block area in South Pasadena within the boundaries of Mission Street, Fair Oaks Avenue, Oxley Street, and Mound Avenue, as well as the surface parking lot at the southeast corner of Hope Street and Mound Avenue.
General Design and Planning Principles
The Downtown Revitalization Project is a low-density collection of infill buildings on five sites connected by gathering spaces and pedestrian friendly paths. Each new building has very distinct design criteria chosen specifically to complement the existing structures surrounding it. Standing together, the new and existing buildings will create an overall harmony that will define the Downtown experience – one that is consistent, yet appears to have been developed organically over time.
The following design and planning principles represent the community’s desires as determined through the outreach efforts:
- Keep in quaint, small town, human scale
- Shape and scale buildings to reflect existing building patterns
- Keep it simple
- Integrate styles from historic Mid-West and Main Street commercial districts
- Encourage and attract small business by building spaces that are useful for small businesses
- Provide a variety of restaurants with plenty of outdoor seating
- Reduce negative impact on schools by building units that cater primarily to owners without children
- Reserve several units for seniors
- Quaint and scaled appropriately for South Pasadena
- Scale courtyards, plazas, and pedestrian streets to functional sizes
- Include areas of sun and shade
- Keep organic and natural
- Integrate paving textures with special landscape features such as a fountain and/or signature Oak tree