A data-driven vision to reduce crime, address homelessness, attract investment, and build a safer, more vibrant downtown corridor for all residents.
Shootings concentrated in the Main St corridor suppress economic activity and drive residents away. CPTED-based redesign can reduce incidents by up to 40%.
Open-air drug markets deter businesses and residents. Mixed-use activation, lighting, and outreach create natural surveillance that displaces illicit activity.
Visible homelessness requires housing-first solutions — not displacement. Supportive housing near the corridor reduces emergency calls and builds community stability.
Poor pedestrian infrastructure discourages foot traffic. Road diets, protected bike lanes, and improved crosswalks make Main St safer and more walkable.
Mixed-use high-rises with ground-floor retail activate the street 24/7. Density brings the "eyes on the street" that naturally prevent crime while generating tax revenue for the city.
CPTED principles — lighting, sight lines, maintained spaces, clear property boundaries — are embedded into every development proposal to reduce crime without increased policing.
Co-locating housing, job training, mental health, and substance use services near transit corridors addresses root causes rather than pushing problems to adjacent neighborhoods.
Homelessness, drug dependency, and crime are deeply interconnected. Displacement strategies simply move the problem. The evidence-based approach is to co-locate housing, treatment, and job support near transit corridors — turning concentrations of vulnerability into stabilized, contributing neighborhoods.
Street outreach workers build trust with unsheltered individuals, connecting them to services and building case plans before crisis escalates.
Low-barrier shelter options with extended hours and on-site mental health services reduce exposure and provide stable ground.
Short-term supported housing in the corridor with structured programming — the bridge between emergency shelter and independent living.
Mixed-income high-rise development along Main St should include 15–20% affordable/supportive units per inclusionary zoning requirements.
Job training programs, small business incubators, and transitional employment with local developers create economic on-ramps for residents.
Emergency shelter · 59 Quincy St
Substance use treatment · Main St
Mental health & recovery services
60-unit mixed-income development w/ services
Job training, resume, and placement center
Co-located street team base + daytime drop-in
Plymouth County Point-in-Time count estimates 450+ unsheltered individuals in the Brockton area. Housing-first interventions reduce public emergency service costs by an average of $10,000–$30,000 per person per year.
Vacant, underutilized, and high-opportunity parcels identified along the Main St corridor. Click any card to view parcel details.
A walkable, mixed-use Main Street corridor with active ground floors, 1,200+ new housing units (including affordable), improved pedestrian infrastructure, and a daytime population that supports 50+ new businesses. Crime prevention is built into the design — not bolted on afterward.
35 miles south of Boston. A commuter rail city with a 95,000-person workforce, significant land availability, and a city government actively courting development partners. The upside is real — and early movers capture it.
Brockton sits on the MBTA Middleborough/Lakeville line. As remote work normalizes, proximity to Boston at a fraction of the cost is a powerful market advantage.
Land values remain 8× lower than inner Boston neighborhoods at similar transit distances. First-mover projects in the corridor will set market comps for a decade.
Tax increment financing, MassWorks infrastructure grants, and Chapter 40B affordability pathways are available to developers who include affordable units.
This revitalization plan addresses the #1 concern of retail and residential tenants proactively. CPTED design is built in, not bolted on after the fact.
Average Annual Daily Traffic count on Main St corridor (MassDOT). High vehicle exposure for ground-floor retail.
Current Walk Score of 72 — above average, but pedestrian infrastructure improvements could push it to 85+, directly increasing residential lease premiums.
Brockton Station is a 5-min walk from the Main St corridor. TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) premiums of 10–25% on residential units are well-documented nationally.
The City of Brockton Office of Economic Development is actively seeking development partners for the Main Street corridor. Reach out to discuss incentive packages, site control, and public-private partnership structures.
Contact Economic Development →Follow these phases to recreate this solution as a live ArcGIS Online Experience Builder site connected to real Brockton data.
Your existing geocoded Excel file from the Brockton PD scraper is your primary data source. Before uploading, ensure it has these columns:
In ArcGIS Online: go to Content → New item → From your device → upload the Excel/CSV → select "Publish this file as a hosted feature layer" → keep default options → Publish.
Go to Add → Search for Layers → ArcGIS Online and search for these ready-made layers:
MassGIS Parcels — parcel boundaries statewideMassGIS Zoning — land use classificationsOpen your incident feature layer in Map Viewer Classic or the new Map Viewer:
incident_type — this will power your sidebar filter widgetBuild a second map for the development page:
Go to ArcGIS Online → Experience Builder → Create New:
#080c14, accent to #00c8ffOn the Crime Map page in Experience Builder:
incident_type and year fieldsincident_type, group by countUse the Indicator widget for each KPI card:
Build a short ArcGIS StoryMap at storymaps.arcgis.com telling the investor story with images, maps, and text. Then:
So the crime data stays current without manual uploads:
brockton_police_log_scraper.py to run weekly (Windows Task Scheduler)Suggested rollout order:
Your crime data pipeline, geocoding workflow, and ArcGIS Online access are already in place. This is the next step — turning raw data into a story that moves people to act.