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to-own store, convenience store, grocery store, law office, drug store,
variety store, furniture stores, hardware store, the City-operated farmers
market, and NNRHA offices at a former furniture store building.
3) The southern portion roughly between Hampton Avenue and 17th Street
which contains restaurants, convenience stores, barber shops, beauty
salon, a cab company, laundry mat, dry cleaners, two non-profit community
service centers, two churches, and the new OHA HeadStart/daycare center.
As previously discussed, Jefferson Avenue traditionally served as the commercial and
retail center for the Southeast Community. Furthermore, the middle portion contains the
community’s most diverse array of retail and commercial services and is an area where
NNRHA is actively engaged in activities presented in the initial NRSA plan.
Chestnut Avenue
The Chestnut Avenue corridor consists of a mix of uses between 25th and 39th
Streets. Commercial and retail businesses include a restaurant, a funeral home, an
electrical contracting company, convenience store, two floral shops, a beauty and barber
shop, a shoe shop and a realty company. Several prominent community churches, a
Masonic Lodge, a private club, a police station, a home health care agency, and a middle
school are also located along the corridor. The Chestnut Avenue corridor traditionally
provided services oriented towards the adjacent residential neighborhoods. However like
Jefferson Avenue, the diversity of services has diminished somewhat over the last several
decades. Nevertheless, the curb appeal of this corridor is being greatly enhanced by the
ongoing streetscape improvements mostly recently illustrated by the work underway at
the corner of Chestnut Avenue and 39th Street. Furthermore, the corridor benefits from
the presence of a strong association of businesses, churches, and property owners
known as the Chestnut Avenue Association. Likewise, the corridor has benefited from
accomplishments of the initial NRSA Plan which resulted in the designation of the corridor
as an affiliate community with the Virginia Main Street Program.
39th Street
The 39th Street corridor between Jefferson and Chestnut Avenues contains a mix
of industrial and retail/commercial uses. As previously discussed, the City and NNRHA
has completed land assembly for a major redevelopment initiative along this corridor
which enabled the relocation of a machine shop to an adjacent new facility and generated
a site for ultimate development as a neighborhood shopping center with a grocery store.
Other businesses located along the corridor include a dry cleaner, a laundry, and
neighborhood market.
Economic Opportunities through Existing Programs
The Southeast Community NRSA is located in either one of two enterprise zones
which presents an opportunity for further economic development. Whereas the Mid-CityJump to an indexed page (228 of 228)