The Trillium Monument Project is creating a community archive, public monument, and civic forum in Portsmouth to preserve and share the history of the opioid epidemic through community-led storytelling, public art, and programming.

The Scioto County Heritage Museum is developing a cultural heritage campus in Portsmouth’s historic Boneyfiddle District, bringing together historic preservation, exhibitions, public art, and community programming. Current priorities include completing the museum headquarters renovation, restoring Cloud Arch, and acquiring expansion properties.

A proposed 1.68-acre recreation and wellness upgrade that expands accessible play and adds pickleball, renewed basketball and shuffleboard facilities, improved restrooms, new sidewalks, parking and park furnishings.

A proposed 13,700-square-foot town square in the heart of Waverly’s Market District, transforming surface parking into a flexible civic gathering place with lawn, shade, seating, public art and space for downtown events.

A proposed streetscape transformation of Market Street from East North Street to East Third Street, focused on creating an inviting retail corridor with safer crossings, expanded pedestrian amenities, street trees, sustainable parking surfaces and a consistent downtown identity.

A downtown corridor investment designed to make Waverly’s U.S. Route 23 gateway safer, more walkable and more distinctive. The concept adds brick sidewalks and enhanced crossings, decorative lighting, planted medians and gateway elements along the central Market District corridor.

The Arch at North Street is a proposed privately led, publicly supported mixed-use redevelopment intended to reactivate an underused downtown Waverly property. Its working program combines boutique lodging, furnished long-term residences, dining and commercial uses, an event floor and rooftop hospitality. The W3 concept also examines a Village or partner-operated economic-development office, coworking space or business-support anchor

The Village of Waverly is advancing a proposed transformation of Bristol Park into a free, inclusive regional destination. Building on a 2022 inclusive-play concept, the expanded vision combines accessible recreation for children and adults with improvements to athletic fields, walking trails, community gathering spaces and the park’s established landscape. The proposed improvements would serve Waverly residents and families across Southern Ohio.

The ROOTS Center is Western Local School District’s proposed multipurpose learning and workforce-development facility for students, adult learners, families, entrepreneurs and regional employers. Its shared-use design would support hands-on instruction during school hours and expand access to workforce training, business education and community programs during evenings, weekends and summers.

The Garnet A. Wilson Public Library is preparing a new 17,000-square-foot main library in Waverly, designed as an accessible public institution with expanded digital resources, learning space and community facilities. Its 2026 project materials also position the library as a regional platform for workforce education, employer outreach and business engagement connected to the evolving PORTS economy.