Southmoreland Neighborhood Association

Development Guidelines

The Southmoreland neighborhood is a diverse historical, arts, museum and medium & high density residential district. Our neighborhood is characterized by historical housing and historically-significant schools and museums.

We believe that all development in Southmoreland should be designed to strengthen and enhance our neighborhood identity; be guided by local resident and commercial associations; follow neighborhood plans; pursue transit and pedestrian friendly designs; and improve the quality of life of our residents.

Current planning resources for our neighborhood include the Main Street Corridor Land Use and Development Plan (adopted and used by the city), the Plaza Plan (also adopted by the city) and the AURI Plan (Applied Urban Research Institute).

Specific Development Projects

We'd like to highlight several recent and upcoming development projects in (and one close to) our neighborhood.

The Hawthorne, 39th & Main
This is going to really help clean up 39th & Main.
Development starts '08.

The SNA strongly supports this project. Plans are underway to preserve and redevelop the Hawthorne building into market-rate apartment rentals. This is just a few feet out of our neighborhood to the north, but this project will benefit Southmoreland by cleaning up the blight at 39th & Main. Much of the criminal activity in our neighborhood centers around this area.

Added bonus: the Naughty But Nice adult bookstore is going to be torn down to create much-needed parking for the Hawthorne. (We're disappointed that more public parking couldn't be added with this project. We need more for this area.)

The 43rd & Main TIF (which funds our SMART program, sidewalk repair program) will actually be buying the Naughty But Nice store, and building the parking. The Hawthorne will lease the structure from the TIF (EDC, actually) and after a certain amount of time will be allowed to "lease-to-own" the parking structure over a period of several years.

If you'd like to read the 55-page plan by the developer, click here. The developer is Howard Fisher of Frederick-Lanell Distinct Properties.

The Berkeley, 43rd & Warwick
An amazing condo rehab that sold-out quickly.
Development completes '08.

This turn-of-the-century apartment house was restored with 24 1- and 2-bedroom condos. The condos sold for about $99K (1BDR) and $139K (2BDR). They sold out within 8 months. This is a true midtown rehab, historical preservation success story and we couldn't be happier. The condos have beautiful interiors and were priced just right.

44th & Walnut
A development succcess story that involves QuikTrip,
Westside Housing and the Southmoreland neighborhood.
Development completed '06.

The development of this property also transformed the streescape on Walnut between 44th & 43rd Steets. As a result of a QuikTrip expansion at 44th & Main, Quicktrip purchased this building, and along with $50K gave it to Westside Housing for rehab into condos. Westside Housing is a non-profit community development corporation that also manages the Southmoreland SMART housing program.

The 1924 building is a three story six-plex of condo units. This project represents a $900,000 investment in the Southmoreland neighborhood. The original balconies were reproduced and re-installed and each unit was completely renovated with up to date construction and amenities and units are currently for sale.

Westside Housing did a significant amount of foundation repair, and an excellent job of restoring the exterior of this building. This was a very involved development effort - it took 18 months for the neighborhood and QuickTrip to agree on the general plan, and then several years for Westside Housing to develop the property itself.