New neighborhood on the horizon for growing town

Conceptualizing a future mixed use residential development in Nevada, Missouri

Project Summary

Community: Nevada, Missouri
Technical Assistance: Site Design
Former Use: State rehabilitation center
Future Use: Mixed use commercial and residential

Nevada, Missouri is a relatively small town that sits along
Interstate 49 (1-49) that connects north south to Kansas
City. The focus site is the Nevada Habilitation Center, a
former mental health medical facility owned by the State of
Missouri and most recently used for administration office
space. The site covers approximately 1Q0~acres at the
northern edge of the city and is slated to be connected to
I-49 with a new exit over the next few years.

development as well as provide supporting services and
amenities. The plan was developed based on a series of
meetings with local stakeholders to provide input on the
design process. The final site plan includes a linear park
that provides natural open space with a walking and biking
path, small frontage retail shops, and a diversity of
housing ranging from cottage clusters to single family
homes. The housing diversity provides affordable and
attainable options for people entering the housing
ownership market or down-sizing from larger residential
properties. The plan also includes alternatives for the
State buildings. These alternatives could depend on future
ownership structures, include retaining the space as
offices, or transition the buildings into a multi-family
apartment development to provide a higher density of
housing. Overall, the plan includes about 422 housing
units, and a third of the site is retained for commercial and
open space development.

The Community's Challenge

Nevada faces challenges including site ownership and
determining the best possible reuse option for the two
Sate properties given their age and odd configuration.
With a site as large as the Habilitation Center, there is a
great opportunity for thoughtful and forward-looking
planning to grow the city's housing diversity and mix of
commercial offerings as the population grows. There are
also important adjacencies to the site, including a local
YMCA, Crowder College, and a planned new elementary
school that make the careful redevelopment of the site
critical.

EPA's Land Revitalization Technical Assistance
In 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Land
Revitalization Program provided contractor technical
assistance to complete a site reuse plan for the 100-acre
site, including the two State-owned parcels.

The final reuse vision for the site focuses on a diverse mix
of uses that would support new housing and commercial

Final site plan of the site with the State buildings remaining.

For more information, contact Alma Moreno-Lahm, EPA
Region 7, at Moreno-Lahm.Alma@epa.gov.

United States
Environmental Protection
M % Agency

Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
560-F-22-036

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