Strategic Growth and Economic Vitality

The City will embrace growth while maintaining its small-town welcoming feeling and atmosphere.

The MainStreet project will include shopping, dining, and cultural activities and will be a destination location, serving as a central gathering place for the community. The City will support a vibrant and healthy business economy with a mix of unique commercial businesses. The housing mix will have options for multi-generational buyers and renters.

Strategic Growth and Economic Vitality Means:

  • Easy access to City services, amenities, and information for all neighborhoods
  • Preserving character-defining features that make Coconut Creek unique
  • Mitigating any impacts of growth
  • Encouraging the development of quality housing options for all residents
  • Maintaining our unique character and sense of place
  • Requiring adequate public facilities and infrastructure to serve existing development and new growth
  • Thriving and growing local, unique, and creative businesses
  • Connecting and developing qualified workers with employers by aligning education and workforce resources to create opportunities for upward career and wage mobility
  • Maintaining the City’s position as a regional destination for natural areas
  • Encouraging investment and innovation to enable local businesses to start, sustain, and renew through the use of technology
  • Managing where and how the City grows in the future
  • Engaging businesses to understand the numerous challenges they may face
  • Ensuring development and redevelopment opportunities can meet our employment space needs
  • Coordinating efforts among City, regional, state, and federal programs to create a strong, resilient, regional economic center
  • Supporting an innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial atmosphere
  • Efficient and transparent City processes and services that address the needs of local businesses

Strategic Goals

  1. Continue to support a mix of housing
  2. Complete the MainStreet project
  3. Protect the small town feeling and look
  4. Enhance technological connectivity