Dennis Port Revitalization
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Our little village on Nantucket Sound comes alive in the summer.
Sunny days and warm nights, ice cream, eateries and miles of sandy beaches coax visitors and residents alike to Dennis Port.
In fact, there’s a new Town Library in the village center, a great year-round theatre just over the border in West Harwich, a park with a playground and stores and service businesses that dot the downtown and environs. Dennis Port has active civic groups and no shortage of traffic. But in truth, Dennis Port doesn’t turn heads except, perhaps, sympathetic ones. The tendency is to drive through it and get to the other side without really noticing what is good and vibrant and worth visiting.
A shadow of what it once was, Dennis Port continues to evolve but lacks a comprehensive plan. The outcome is predictably chaotic and the populace watches, waiting and wondering what will become of this village center.
Hope lingers behind every derelict building and within every empty lot. Committed to making sweeping and lasting improvements, the current Dennis Port Revitalization Committee (DRC) has embraced a relatively new community planning tool. This tool, used successfully around the world, is called a Design Charrette.
