Shippensburg Borough Revitalization and Connectivity Plan

Shippensburg Borough, Township, and University were interested in developing a plan to identify strategies for:

• downtown revitalization,
• neighborhood enhancement,
• better connections within the downtown with sidewalks and trails to the surrounding neighborhoods, the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail, and the Shippensburg University campus.

In conjunction with the overall plan, Derck & Edson worked on visualizations of ultimate proposed conditions as well as potential interim enhancements that could happen in a more immediate time-frame yet still contribute to a revitalized downtown condition.

Within the larger purview of this plan, Derck & Edson was asked to focus on specific opportunity sites and address their future potential.

We also developed various approaches for connecting the entire downtown. These opportunities include a range from simple aesthetic treatments along existing streetscapes to trail expansions and activating new, currently inaccessible, areas of the community.