A list of participants is attached to this summary. The first segment of the roundtable explored the reasons corridor plans have been taken up by neighborhoods. Corridors can unify and define neighborhoods. But they are also the edge of neighborhoods, leading to a lessened sense of neighborhood ownership and control.
Corridors provide the public space for neighborhoods.
Each corridor is a collection of goods and services that is the backbone of the neighborhood economy and of the city's economic diversity. Possibility of looking at the corridors as places in which to create jobs and revitalize the neighborhood economy. But the corridors have been heavily buffeted by changes in merchandising, marketing, and city demographics. Corridor planning is being spurred by the NRP planning process. Neighborhoods have seized on the NRP as a vehicle for corridors to be examined.