The City of Somerville commissioned a team led by Dover, Kohl & Partners to update the 2000 Planning Study and plan Assembly Square’s ultimate state as a walkable, attractive, livable, and sustainable part of Somerville’s interconnected fabric. The planning team also includes Street Plans, Howard Stein Hudson, Daedalus, and Zanetta Illustration. The Plan for the Assembly Square Neighborhood addresses the current needs of Somerville while planning big for the future. This means envisioning great new places that are compatible and respectful of context. The Illustrative Plan shows how these places might develop by depicting the proposed streets, buildings, alleys, parking locations, and open spaces of a full future build-out of the Assembly Square Neighborhood. The plan calls for growing revenue-generating uses for Somerville, which means increasing the commercial tax base to keep property taxes manageable. This is accomplished by showing new development where existing land is not being used to its highest and best use. This is shown in the Assembly Marketplace and Assembly Square South focus areas where large single-use retail uses accompanied with large surface parking areas are re-imagined as mixed-use, mid-rise developments that serve a diverse set of needs for the neighborhood.