A plan to revitalize Broad Street calls for a slew of new initiatives to stimulate business growth, encourage youth involvement, and enhance safety along the commercial and residential throughway, which links the downtown areas of Pawtucket, Central Falls and Cumberland.

The Broad Street Regeneration Initiative’s action plan, which was about seven months in the making, will be unveiled at a community meeting at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center, located at 175 Main St., in Pawtucket, on Tuesday.

The project is the first joint effort by the three municipalities under the Northern Rhode Island Tri-Communities Coalition, and is financed by a $52,000 matching grant from the National Parks Service that the communities received in February. The city of Pawtucket administers the grant.

The communities are relying on the efforts of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, which held two meetings to gather ideas from business owners and residents along the 3-mile road.

The tourism council then hired two firms, architects Gates, Leighton and Associates, and consultants the Maguire Group to turn the ideas into recommendations. The tourism council presented those, in part, at a June community meeting in Central Falls.

Alex Sommer, who has been coordinating the project for the tourism council, said he also visited about 50 businesses along the street to get comments about the recommendations, which include six general tasks or “interventions.”

Those, broadly, are promoting building-facade improvements, undertaking pedestrian and streetscape improvements, encouraging historic preservation, implementing parking and traffic management strategies, designing for safety, and stimulating business growth, according to a draft version of the plan.

Guests on Tuesday will get an overview of what’s been done so far on the project and more detailed information about what each of the six “interventions” calls for, how the municipalities and stakeholder groups should go about getting them done, and rough estimates of how much the work will cost, said Sommer.

An even more detailed version of those recommendations will come in the form of the initiative’s action plan, a document that will go to each municipality’s governing council for formal adoption in November.

“It’s going to have some teeth to it. It can’t just be suggestions,” Sommer says. “It has to show what’s in it for the cities. It has to show the economic value, that it should increase the tax base for the cities and bring new markets for businesses, if it is done properly.”

Sommer says that formal adoption of the plan by the municipal councils is key to bringing funding to the next phases of the project. Without municipal support, he said, the project would struggle to win additional state and federal grants.

“If we can keep the momentum going on this, we can enact some real change,” he said.

The tourism council has already started the ball rolling on the next steps, preparing an application for a $1-million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant for brownfield testing along Broad Street and the surrounding areas.

Brownfields are abandoned or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment may be complicated by potential environmental contamination.

The tourism council is also moving forward with some suggestions listed under the as-yet unapproved action plan, such as a festival this winter with events along Broad Street and Jenks Park in Central Falls.

It is planning to offer a series of classes to small business owners through the state Economic Development Corporation.

And students from the Blackstone Academy, a Pawtucket charter school, will have an opportunity to earn money working as Youth Guides in a youth leadership program called My Town.

Originally founded in Boston’s South End, My Town sponsors youth-led tours focusing on the experiences and contributions of Boston’s ethnic and immigrant communities.Two sessions

There are two sessions for Tuesday’s community event, one from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and another from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Spanish translators will be on hand. For more information, contact the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council at (401) 724-2200 or visit www.broadstreetexperience.com.

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