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In 2015/2016 the Historic District Commission (HDC) worked with Dominique Hawkins at Preservation Design Partnership (PDP) to develop a detailed set of Design Guidelines for the nearly 1,300 properties located within in Portsmouth's Historic District.
The replacement of the Memorial Bridge in downtown Portsmouth was a federally funded project that required mitigation for the loss of a nationally significant resource individually eligible for the National Register of Historic Places as well as a contributing resources to a National Register eligible downtown historic district. One of the mitigation stipulations for this project was a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Portsmouth downtown historic district.
For over seventy years, the Portsmouth Housing Authority has been working to make Portsmouth’s housing more affordable for lower-income individuals.To learn more, Click Here.
To celebrate Bike Month, City staff and Mayor Blalock led a bicycle tour around the Downtown with community members. The route showcased the locations of the City’s Zagster bike share stations, and ended at Portwalk Place to celebrate their sponsorship of a new bike station at that location. To learn more about Portsmouth’s bike share program and all our station locations, download the Zagster App and visit www.zagster.com/portsmouthnh.
