Seabrook Waterfront Development Plan
When you have a city as charming as Seabrook, yet primed for business growth, you need a plan to guide the redevelopment process. What’s the look and feel you want to create? What type of businesses do you want to attract? That’s just what the Seabrook EDC ordered in 2005 when it commissioned the Seabrook Waterfront Development Plan, which outlines these desires. The goal -- to attract quality businesses and investors to the heart of the city and improve utilities, while upholding Seabrook’s reputation for Southern coastal living.
The plan identified five distinct areas within the city, all accessible via water and each with its own unique qualities related to existing and potential land uses.
- NASA Parkway…offering office, retail and residential options
- Old Seabrook…well-known for its eclectic shops and unique boutiques
- The Point…where wholesale and retail seafood businesses thrive
- Todville Road…beautifully adorned with nature trails and luxury homes
- Marine District…home to the third largest concentration of pleasure boats in the U.S.
Redevelopment of each of these districts will take place gradually over several years. To guide this process, the plan outlined a set of principles for the City to follow to ensure redevelopment meets certain standards. These include:
- Build on Seabrook’s unique character
- Achieve sustainable economic development
- Emphasize revenue-producing or federal/state-funded public projects
- Improve Seabrook’s infrastructure
- Enhance the natural environment
- Improve Seabrook’s image and identity
- Improve visual quality and promote civic pride
- Encourage and maintain water-dependent uses along the waterfront
- Create corridors to connect districts, recreational amenities and public spaces
Click here to read the full Seabrook Waterfront Development Plan.
