Downtown New Bern...a few statistics to ponder

The downtown effort over the past 35 years has been based on an incremental approach with achievable goals and objectives.  

To date:

·  Well over two hundred million has been invested in major

    rehabs and new construction.

·   198 businesses, in addition to government offices,

     museums and churches employ approximately 2,300 people.

·  12 blocks of major streetscape improvements, underground utilities, new lights and landscaping.

·  1.5 miles of major improvements to Broad Street and two blocks of East Front Street.

·  $120 million Neuse River Bridge.

·  Alfred A. Cunningham Bridge replaced.

·  2000 -  new waterfront Riverfront Convention Center.

·  2010 -  NC History Center.

·  $1.6 redevelopment of Union Point Park, $200,000 of Council Bluff Green.

·  Two mid-block parks, James Reed Lane and Bear Plaza.

·  Four new waterfront hotels and three marinas.

Susan Moffat Thomas

Executive Director



Middlle Street Today



Middle Street Before