Welcoming and Safe Pedestrian Environments

• Enhance pedestrian experience by adding trees, greenery, and seats along major commercial corridors such as Morris Park Avenue. 
• Strengthen pedestrian connections between Hutch Metro Center and local destinations within the Morris Park and Westchester Square BIDs by improving sidewalks, medians, and plazas along Eastchester Road, Marconi Street, Bassett Avenue, and the western section of Morris Park Avenue.
• Improve street lighting and provide security cameras around Hutch Metro Center, Lydig Avenue, White Plains Road, and underpass areas along Eastchester Road and Bronxdale Avenue.
• Improve pedestrian safety along high-traffic corridors such as Morris Park Avenue, East Tremont Avenue, Bronxdale Avenue, and Judge Benjamin F. Nolan Way by introducing traffic calming measures and speeding cameras.
• Ensure the well-being of pedestrians and micromobility riders by creating designated drop-off areas for electric scooters and introducing signage instructing riders to dismount when using sidewalks.

Celebrating Local History, Arts, and Culture

• Improve and expand publicly accessible cultural amenities such as the local public libraries.
• Encourage the development of a dedicated intergenerational space for performances, cultural events, and making art projects.
• Showcase local art and celebrate cultural identity in publicly frequented places and pedestrian corridors such as the MTA wall along Morris Park Avenue between Adams Street to Garfield Street.
• Introduce signage and historical markers in Westchester Square, Morris Park, and Van Nest neighborhoods to improve visibility of places of historical and cultural significance.
• Create indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces to showcase artworks, potentially at: Morris Park Library, Matthew Muliner Playground, Loreto Park, Owen F. Dolen Park, and the Bronx Council of the Arts offices.

Community-Building Spaces

• Improve and expand playgrounds and open spaces such as Van Nest Park, Morris Park Community Garden, Ben Abraham Playground, and Loreto Park, to serve existing and new residents and visitors.
• Create more event spaces that can accommodate a wider range of community events, especially for children and teenagers.
• Add recreational programming, such as skating rinks, swimming pools, and pickleball courts to serve residents of all ages.
• Encourage social interaction by introducing public seating and street furniture along major pedestrian thoroughfares and frequented public places.

• Invest in storefront façade improvements to support local businesses and employ elements such as color and awnings to create a cohesive visual environment along commercial corridors.
• Improve the experience of local commercial corridors for patrons by investing in signage, planting, art, and traffic safety.
• Encourage the development of neighborhood conveniences such as grocery and drug stores. 
• Encourage new businesses and retail that offer the missing “third space,” e.g., cafés, co-working spaces, public plazas, and bookstores.
• Enable local businesses to improve their spaces, invest in modern equipment, and expand.

Medical Hub and Metro-North Station Area Economic Opportunity and Connectivity

• Install wayfinding signage around existing campuses to guide visitors toward Greater Morris Park’s main commercial corridors.
• Improve bus connectivity from the Hutch Metro Center and medical campuses to key commercial centers, transit, and neighborhood destinations.
• Support new development projects that activate street-level uses such as cafés, restaurants, grocery stores, and pharmacies, to meet residents’ needs.
• Create welcoming gateways into the community by investing in the expansion of planned public spaces and programming them with commuter conveniences such as newsstands, coffee shops, and outposts of existing local businesses.
• Connect existing and new residents to employment opportunities in the medical institutions and institutions located in the medical hub and near the Metro-North stations.
• Ensure easy access by local residents to partake in job training and skill-building activities at employment centers.