Maintenance Funding Recommendations for the South Bronx Greenway
The South Bronx Greenway is a low-income community full of environmental hazards, lacking green spaces with a fragile health profile. This team worked with the Barretto Bay Conservancy to identify methods to provide for the short- and long-term maintenance needs of the South Bronx Greenway in a way that promotes economic development and respects the local history, culture, environment, and community. The Conservancy's goal is to create a self-sustaining maintenance plan that diversifies funding sources, as well as to leverage community resources while promoting usership. The team proposed business development, events and outreach, and grants and donations to support outreach goals and maintenance needs. Business development, such as push carts, educational tours and, water taxies, would provide services to visitors while inducing job creation and entrepreneurial opportunities for the community. Events and outreach modeled after the Arts at Blue Greenway in San Francisco, CA, and Race at Central Park, would encourage visitation and provide funding potential while increasing usership. For long term financing, the team proposed assessing transportation options, providing retail opportunities for area food wholesalers, improving the business district and possibly looking at tax increment financing.