Existing Condition - A strip shopping center surrounded by parking - A convenience store - A gas station - Several rental apartment units in obsolete buildings - A neighborhood street - SE Nassau Ave - interrupted by a parking lot - A neighborhood church in need for expansion	Phase I - Create an authentic plaza - a stage for gatherings and community activities, fronting the existing convenience store - Surround the plaza with public streets, clearly defining the vehicular and pedestrian realms. - Incorporate on-street parking along every street - Extend SE Nassau Ave. and connect it to MLK Blvd.
Phase II - Extend Lake Avenue through and behind the police and fire departments. This will increase security and accessibility to the area - Create a small traffic calming device an the intersection of Lake and Tarpon - Develop a strategy to relocate residents of existing multi-family buildings to newly constructed structures to allow for the connection of the street and the construction of new residential and mixed-use buildings - Line the existing strip shopping buildings with new ones that face MLK Blvd.	Phase III - Over time, replace obsolete buildings with new ones that accommodate parking in the rear of the structures, shielded from the pedestrian - Eliminate head-in parking along Tarpon Avenue
Ultimate Build-Out - Convert the existing gas station to a more urban “backwards gas station” - Complete the Martin Luther King frontage of the site with mixed-use buildings. - Over time, rebuild the existing retail shopping center and convenience store and allow them to accommodate additional stories and a mix of uses. Series by Marcela Camblor.	A Center For The Community: Looking South On Tarpon Avenue Along The Reconfigured Gary Plaza. By Shailendra Singh.