700-unit Jordan Downs is one of the most distressed, violent and depressing public housing sites in the country. The 1,800-unit master plan will rebuild the public housing units, integrating them into a new community that will also contain a similar number of affordable units, some market rate units, new neighborhood retail with employment opportunities, and a multi-service community center.

The site plan is organized around a new Central Park and Community Building. The new plan's pattern of streets and small blocks reconnects Jordan Downs with the surrounding neighborhood and creates defensible private spaces and active public ones. Each phase of development includes four components: social services, public open space, employment and new homes. The phasing plan permits on-site relocation of all existing public housing residents without displacement.