Downtown Largo Placemaking, Branding, and Wayfinding Strategy

Placemaking Opportunities: Corridors Placemaking connects places. Placemaking connects people, places, and activities in ways that help communities achieve a healthy, sustainable, and resilient future. The mixed-used, vibrant community envisioned in Downtown Largo will depend on connectivity between its major hubs (retail, civic, institutional) and its residential areas, as well as connections to resources beyond the study area. These corridors will ultimately include boulevards, streets, trails, and greenways. Multi-Use Paths are part of the County’s broader network of paths used for biking, jogging, walking and similar types of recreation. They also include localized feeder paths that connect from the County network to destinations in Downtown Largo. Pedestrian Corridors are the main routes the pedestrians would take to get between Largo’s major destinations and activity areas. Vehicular Corridors are the main arterial routes within Downtown Largo, serving as main through routes that connect local streets to state highways.

MULTI-USE PATHS

Wayfinding

Bike Repair Station

Bike Rack

Wildflowers

Wellness

PEDESTRIAN CORRIDORS

Low Cost Landscaping

Public Art

Wayfinding

Restrooms

VEHICULAR CORRIDORS

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Wildflowers

Traffic Calming

Streetscaping

Wayfinding

Downtown Largo Placemaking, Branding, and Wayfinding Strategy

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Prince George’s County Planning Department

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Downtown Largo Placemaking, Branding, and Wayfinding Strategy

Published on Aug 1, 2023

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Downtown Largo is a vibrant and diverse area poised to become a regional downtown with unique destinations, and a range of transportation modes available to residents and visitors. This Placemaking, Branding, and Wayfinding Strategy seeks to capture the momentum of the transitioning nature of Largo Town Center into a walkable urban core. There are many existing and planned residential, commercial, and industrial branding efforts within and adjacent to the study area, and this strategy can help tie these disparate identities together. The strategy makes recommendations for locations in Downtown Largo to be activated through various means of placemaking. Further, through community engagement, the strategy proposes a ‘brand’ for Largo and explores wayfinding options to improve walkability and increase a sense of place in Downtown Largo.