Charrette Phase II
Initial Design Options
As we enter the Charrette Phase II of the Mercury Park Master Plan we invite your participation and comments on the Initial Design Options on the following pages. We have taken feedback from the initial Information Gathering Charrette Phase I and generated three unique options which respond to the comments illustrating development patterns which range from a focus on single-family/duplexes and townhomes to multi-story mixed-use. We invite your response and preferences to these development options.
What We Heard
We appreciate the public’s feedback provided for this Mercury Park master planning effort and invite continued participation throughout the process. In the initial Information Gathering Charrette Phase I we received comments from residents, neighbors, non-profits and interested Murfreesboro citizens. Their feedback provided some consistent themes which the master planning team will use a guide in designing the new neighborhood. Almost universally throughout the comments a desire for connections, green spaces, sidewalks/walkability and safe outdoor spaces for play and passive enjoyment were stated. There were requests for the new residential designs to blend with the current housing as well as interest in an urban rowhouse look that works with the scale of the neighborhood. Focus on safety was an important and predominant theme.
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Option 1 - The Neighborhood Scheme
The Neighborhood Scheme focuses on developing the Mercury Court site with new single-family and duplex homes to blend-in with the existing neighborhood. The scheme replaces the medical clinic at the corner of Mercury Boulevard and S. Hancock Street where it is currently located. The streets are treelined lined with single family homes and duplexes with front porches facing the neighborhood. The blocks along Mercury Boulevard have rear-facing landscaped parking courts and the blocks along Minor St. and S. Bilbro Ave. are provided with rear alleys and private driveways. Unique to this scheme, Minor St. is straightened out providing a central neighborhood park lined with homes along the South side.
Parkside is redeveloped with multi-family rowhouses which form a private and central landscaped courtyard and create a common front façade to E. Castle Street.
Option 2 - The Transition Scheme
The Transition Scheme provides an option which changes scale from a larger townhome and multifamily scale near Mercury Boulevard and transitions to a single-family/duplex scale as it knits back into the neighborhood. It features a green along S. Hancock Street which connects to a new entry into Patterson Park and a neighborhood pocket park along Minor Street. The single family and duplex homes along Minor St. have front porches that face the treelined sidewalk/streets and most have private driveways like nearby neighborhood homes. Mercury Boulevard is lined with townhomes which give a larger scale and presence to the four-laned boulevard and parking is placed in the rear. On the corner of 1st Avenue and Mercury Boulevard a larger mixed-use building holds the corner with the medical clinic and MHA offices on the ground and second level with apartments on the upper level(s.)
Parkside is developed with multifamily rowhouses and an interior common greenspace opening to the Patterson Park development. The complex creates a front face to E. Castle St. and parking provides a buffer to the warehouse/storage functions on the neighboring property to the South.
Option 3 - The Urban Scheme
The Urban Scheme hosts a townhome/rowhouse development pattern providing a larger scale in the blocks facing Mercury Boulevard which relate to the commercial scale of properties to the south of the boulevard. This configuration pulls the building front from the street providing a deeper front yard. As Minor St. connects with 1st Avenue, a linear neighborhood greenspace/park is developed for passive activities. Like the other schemes, homes north of Minor St. are developed as single family/duplexes, but in this scheme all homes have access to rear parking courts. The medical clinic is envisioned on the first floor of the multifamily building at the corner of Mercury Boulevard and 1st Avenue.
Parkside is developed with a focus on the continuation of the park into the development, pushing the parking to the West. The scheme creates a face along E. Castle Street and focuses on providing the rowhouses a front and back greenspace.
