Tree Urban Design Studio

This week, we joined The Redeemer’s School alongside Redeemer Community Development, Redeemer Church, students and families, elected officials, donors, project partners, and community stakeholders to officially break ground at the former Chastain Middle School campus in the Broadmoor neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi.

The event marked a major milestone in the ongoing transformation of the property through phased reinvestment, collaborative planning, and public engagement efforts that began earlier this year.

The project aims to adaptively reuse the vacant 22-acre public school campus into a new destination for learning, creative arts, recreation, and community reinvestment. The campus will become home to The Redeemer’s School alongside an arts and community hub featuring an auditorium, creative classrooms, library space, and other opportunities for entrepreneurship and workforce training.

The exterior of the site is envisioned as a public park and community landscape with a large trail system, play spaces, outdoor gathering plazas, event lawns, and native Jackson prairie gardens.

Long time residents, business owners, local leaders, and students were invited into the project’s onsite Strategy Studio to review concepts and help shape the vision through ongoing community input and strategic planning efforts led by Redeemer Community Development, M|B|P Make Big Plans, and TREE Urban Design Studio.

TREE is grateful to Redeemer Community Development for dreaming big and investing in the future of Broadmoor.