Homer City Hall - Town Square - Master Plan

Project Date: 2007-2009
Lead: Chris Beck
Client: City of Homer
Location: Homer

Project Description

What can be done to create a viable, vibrant town center for Homer? Our community is growing and changing. The community’s natural surroundings and small town atmosphere attract more residents, second homes and summer tourists every year. As our town expands in both population and size, the need for a geographic, economic, civic and transportation “heart for Homer” becomes ever more important.

Building a real center for Homer has many benefits. An attractive, walkable mixed-use town center is a great asset for the quality of life of both residents and visitors, establishing a center for community events. A well-planned town center can serve as a more convenient and enjoyable place to meet the needs of daily living and enhance the pleasure of meeting friends and neighbors. Creating a better center for the community increases the prosperity of all of Homer’s businesses by providing a lively, vital place for shops, services and restaurants. A concentrated town center also helps reduce the need for driving, in turn reducing traffic congestion, noise, and pollution. 

The website: www.homertownsquare.com is designed to help the Homer community get involved in building a successful town center. Successful downtowns in small towns across the country have become destinations where residents complete daily errands on foot, tourists stroll through galleries and shops and lively streets, and plazas encourage everyone to linger just a bit longer. Creating Homer’s town center will be a milestone on the way to making our town an even stronger, more vital community, and can help to ensure that our children and grandchildren will cherish life here as much as we do today.

Agnew::Beck is working with the City of Homer to facilitate the public participation required to create a Homer City Hall - Town Square - Infrastructure Master Plan Project. The plan builds on the extensive work completed by Homer residents and City government throughout many years in the hopes of constructing a City Hall and Town Square for the Town Center area by 2009.