Establish Asiatown as a Welcoming Neighborhood For New Americans, Immigrants and Refugees

Neighborhood Vision 2025

Imagine AsiaTown as a Home for the AAPI Community

Concurrent with the creation of the MidTown Vision Plan was the development of Imagine AsiaTown, a strategic vision plan created by residents and stakeholders of the broader AsiaTown neighborhood - which extends north of Payne Avenue to Superior, and includes Rockwell Street (Historic Chinatown) and areas along St. Clair Avenue. The MidTown Vision Plan can support the AsiaTown community to enhance the broader community identity, sense of belonging, and cultural confidence; promote co-existence and community prosperity and realize residents self-organizing, resource flowing, and sustainability.

Imagine AsiaTown as a Home for the AAPI Community

Action

Establish Asiatown as a Welcoming Neighborhood For New Americans, Immigrants and Refugees

Imagine AsiaTown aspires to make the AsiaTown Neighborhood a welcoming place known throughout the city and beyond as a place that attracts and keeps residents of all different races.

Near-Term Actions

Inventory existing housing rental properties; continue conversations with resettlement agencies.

Seek developer partners for single/multi family rehab.

Explore identification of AsiaTown as a Dream Neighborhood.

Type of Action

Planning & Outreach

Looking For

Developers, Residents & Partners

6D

Related Actions

Imagine AsiaTown as a Home for the AAPI Community

Imagine AsiaTown as a Home for the AAPI Community

Gather Community Members Around Events and Festivals Important to Asian Culture

Continue planning events and programming that appeal to and AAPI residents and respond to the enique community assets, values, and variety within the Asian cultures represented in AsiaTown.

Imagine AsiaTown as a Home for the AAPI Community

Beautify AsiaTown so That the Area Reflects Authentic Asian Cultures

All physical elements in public spaces are an opportunity to activate and beautify an area. In AsiaTown, everyday physical elements that make up the streetscape - crosswalk paint, landscape buffers, fencing, lighting, landscaping, and even pavement treatements - are a canvas on which to celebrate authentic Asian cultures in the area.

Imagine AsiaTown as a Home for the AAPI Community

Make AsiaTown More Holistically Connected & Walkable

The AsiaTown Neighborhood overlaps MTC’s service area and both communities stand to gain from strengthening physical and socal connections within and between the areas. Physical pathways within and between these areas should improved to make stronger, safer connections that include connections to Historic Chinatown and Superior. MTC’s efforts to market MidTown businesses should include assets in the AsiaTown community at large, wherever possible.