Yonkers Downtown Master Plan

Yonkers, NY

The Yonkers Conceptual Development Plan was completed in November 2006 for the Struever Fidelco Cappelli partnership. The Plan links five disparate districts through an integrated approach which threads Open Space and Transportation elements through each district. This allows Development to take different forms while maintaining a comprehensive identity for the future of Yonkers, increasing residential, office, retail and entertainment uses, while promoting the continuance of Yonkers as an industrial employment center.

A key to the Plan is creating dense mixed use development balanced with open space to maintain an appropriate scale for street level experiences. It is with this density that the many different retail, entertainment, arts, and cultural amenities, as well as new and enhanced public spaces can be realized. The Plan also recommends better accessibility to Downtown by improving Yonkers and Nepperhan Avenues, the major access corridors from the East that connect traffic from the regional parkway and highway systems, and building new public parking that is convenient and accessible to serve new development.

Yonkers has historically been centered around the Saw Mill River, as the economic engine of the City, and the Hudson River as a major transportation and industrial shipping source. The Plan recommends the daylighting of the Saw Mill River wherever possible, and the establishment of a continuous public Esplanade which will stretch for over two miles along the Hudson Riverfront.

Phase I of the Plan includes River Park Center, a mixed use center with retail, entertainment and residential uses, that is anchored by a new baseball stadium to create a vibrant urban downtown, Cacace Center, which consolidates the city’s government center with a new firehouse, office building, hotel and parking garage, and Palisades Point, a waterfront residential development that establishes an iconic image for Yonkers on its waterfront.