Powhatan Point Murray Renaissance Center (MRC) Project

 

The Powhatan Point Murray Renaissance Center (MRC) is an element of a larger overall Community Urban Redevelopment Plan (CURP) (see subsequent Figures) being initiated by the PPRA. It represents five basic elements including (a) MRC Retail/Office Complex; (b) MRC Time Share Housing Complex [TSHC] Village; (c) MRC Park/Recreational Area; (d) Waste Water Treatment Facility; and (e) Route 7 Highway Reconstruction.  It focuses on making the community a shopping center site for the Monroe/Southern Belmont Counties that are vacant from any others within 20 minute driving distance.

 

(Click here to review the Powhatan Point Murray Renaissance Center (MRC) Plan).

 

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The Murray Renaissance Center Project Plan integrates

a complementary set of elements including:

(a)  retail/office plan structured in seven buildings reflecting an inviting historic village facades and streetscape;

(b) offering  focus on key anchor product/speciality stores and eateries offering unique village identity that creates a broader attraction of the regional public;

(c) river front design and recreation sites provides river drive/biking/walking river front landscape streetscape with soccer/baseball/park sites;

(d) professional office that focuses on fracking support industry, incubator research, software development and consulting companies seeking attractive working environment/living conditions for its employees;

(e)  luxury time-share apartments integrated into a overlook complex with river views, balconies, high quality design/amenities with potential of adjacent work, shop and play environment;

(f) its retail/office focus complements/integrates with the CURP approach offering retail shopping and office employment for the region;

(g) development financing commits to only Phase 1 construction process, with with follow-on phased in options, applying an initial 20/80 equity/loan plan that is complemented by land bank investments, federal/state/local government subsidies to magnify amortization ROI; and

(h) modular/iterative unit construction plan with production facility on-site, that reduces build plan costs and schedule to six months per building.