A 20-year commons master plan for the 73-acre city-owned Military Circle site — Norfolk, Virginia.
A place worth building — read the full argument →The city of Norfolk bought Military Circle Mall for $10. The land is ours — the Eastside's. A Community Land Trust holds it in perpetuity. The appreciation stays in the commons. No developer buys in, extracts for 50 years, and leaves.
This site plan derives all geometry from the actual GIS parcel data — 19 confirmed EDA-owned parcels, real coordinates, real ownership from the Norfolk FY26 assessment roll. District zones emerge from the parcels themselves as zones of influence: each district radiates from its anchor parcels, and boundaries form at local equilibria, not at drawn lines.
Community zine
Bifold pamphlet
11×8.5" · 4 panels · print-ready
Pitch — City Hall
Council & Economic Development
PD rezoning · deal structure · comparables
Pitch — Investors
5-over-1 · CLT land · market rate
Deal structure · NOI · cap rate · per-building
Pitch — Coalition
Community & Civic League
Ownership · escalation paths · the case
Parcel geometry: gisshare.norfolk.gov / OpenData / Parcels FeatureServer · Ownership + centroids: data.norfolk.gov FY26 Property Assessment + Address Information · 19 EDA-owned parcels confirmed · Ward 4 · Military Circle Civic League · Evac Zone C · Planning District 87 · Flood Zone X (low-moderate risk, FIRM 2017) · All overlay geometry derived by constraint satisfaction from parcel data — no hardcoded coordinates.