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Location of Potential Future Metro Cores
There are three core types that drive growth within a region:
•
Existing cores
are already influential and have more than
6,000 jobs today.
Positioning of Existing and Emerging Economic Cores by Type
Hampton Roads Region
•
Emerging cores
will evolve and shape development
patterns and are projected to have at least 6,000 jobs by
2030.
•
Potential new cores
are areas or regions likely to attract
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s gn can emp oymen grow n e nex years, u w
still have less than 6,000 new jobs in 2035.
Emerging cores and likely new cores are likely sufficient to
accommodate 30% of the region’s projected job growth
through 2035—a ratio in line with their current capture.
The next generation of cores in the Hampton Roads
region will likely evolve for similar reasons as existing
cores.
These catalysts include major transportation
improvements, the emergence of new concentrations of
executive housing, proximity to jobs already existing, and
availability of large parcels to accommodate that growth in
proximity to these catalysts.
RCLCO did not complete the detailed analysis to determine
where the likely new job cores would locate, nor determine
how large they would be However based upon our
Emerging
Existing
MAP KEY
.
,
experience with Metro Core growth as well as our
understanding of the region, we have identified potential
locations for future employment cores.
The Dominion Study
Area could be one of these future Metro Cores.
Potential
New Core
Dominion Boulevard | City of Chesapeake | April 11, 2014 | E4-11982.40
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Source: RCLCO
