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Winooski Falls Wins a National Award for
Smart Growth Achievement!
The National Award for Smart Growth Achievement recognizes communities that use the principles of smart growth to create better places. This competition is open annually to local or state governments and other public sector entities. Click here for more information.
Retail Space available in Spinner Place
Retail spaces are already filling up, so if you want to make sure to get a spot in this prime new location, contact us for more information!
Community Leaders On Winooski Falls
State and local leaders strongly support Winooski Falls
Jim Douglas, Governor of Vermont
“The Winooski project is the largest revitalization effort ever undertaken in Vermont and is a reflection of my Administration's commitment to supporting our downtowns and taking growth pressure off of our rural areas. By working to concentrate development in our dense urban areas we can address the housing needs of our citizens, maximize the value of our investment in infrastructure and protect our environment for ourselves and future generations. The project is very complex and took an enormous amount of time and effort to pull together but it serves as an example of how cooperation among many partners can achieve a common vision.”
Kevin Dorn, Vermont Secretary of Commerce
“The Winooski project is a great example of a partnership between local government and state and federal agencies in conjunction with very significant contributions from other public and private entities.”
Sarah Carpenter, Executive Director, Vermont Housing Finance Agency
“The housing created by Winooski Falls will be a great boon to the greater Chittenden County area and to Vermont’s housing market as a whole. It is not only important that we create new housing—particularly affordable housing—but that we create it in our downtowns, in growth centers, near jobs, shops and services. Winooski Falls accomplishes both those goals. Additionally, the housing we’re bringing online in the Winooski Falls project may well have a beneficial ripple effect throughout the housing market if it helps buffer the rapid rise in housing costs.”
Clem Bissonette, Mayor of Winooski
“The redevelopment has brought, and will continue to bring, new business to our community. When construction is complete, there will be over 15,000 square feet of retail space in which our citizens and visitors to the area will shop. Development of accessible grocery facilities is especially essential. Equally important, the project is bringing critically needed affordable housing to the city.”
Local Links
Here are some links that we think might be helpful for someone considering Winooski Falls.
- Winooski Vermont - Official Homepage
- The Lake Champlain Valley of Vermont
- Virtual Vermont - Internet Magazine
- The Burlington Free Press
Press Coverage
Winooski is fast becoming urban - from the Burlington Free Press "Voice of the Free Press", December 27, 2007.
The Cascades Rising in Winooski - from the Champlain Business Journal, December 3, 2007.
Winooski's up and working - from the Burlington Free Press, November 8, 2007.
Partnership arranges development financing - from the Burlington Free Press, October 12, 2007.
In Winooski, eating is being redeveloped along with the buildings - from Seven Days, October 10, 2006
Ambitious revitalization effort to reinvent small Vermont city - from the Affordable Housing Finance magazine, June 2006
Champlain Mill ready to produce another revival - from the Burlington Free Press, June 21, 2006.
Downtown WInooski continues to rise - from the Burlington Free Press, April 18, 2006.
Changes afoot at the Champlain Mill - from the Burlington Free Press, January 24, 2006.
Winooski: Things will be great, downtown - from the Burlington Free Press, December 29, 2005.
Proud Winooski can't wait to celebrate rebirth - from the Burlington Free Press, November 14, 2005.
Winooski Falls Press Kit (pdf: 1.14mb)
Changing Winooski - from the Burlington Free Press "Voice of the Free Press", December 13, 2004.
Winooski makeover begins - from the Burlington Free Press, June 9, 2004.
“Winooski West Block Begins Construction”, Elizabeth Mullikin-Drake, Vermont Housing Finance Agency, Housing Matters, September 2004
Smart Growth Links
New Urban News
New Urban News, the official publication of the Congress for the New Urbanism, is a professional newsletter for planners, developers, architects, builders, public officials and others who are interested in the creation of human-scale communities.
Visit www.newurbannews.com to read the current issue.
Past New Urban News articles of especial interest:
Retail shifts toward livability, says mixed-use expert
No one has won more acclaim for designing mixed-use centers in recent years
than Richard Heapes. June 2005.
Town centers open around the US
Crocker Park, Victoria Gardens, and Belmar illustrate the trend toward mixed-use
retail areas. December 2004.
The Vermont Forum on Sprawl
Visit www.vtsprawl.org to learn more about Sprawl and Smart Growth
Other Articles on Smart Growth
“Our Place in the World”, Jay Walljasper, Ode Magazine, June 2005 Most of us take public spaces for granted until they disappear and we have no place to go. Happily, a new movement is emerging to reinvigorate public life.