The Action Plan identifies four areas of concentration:

• Housing
• Youth & Safety
• City Services
• Neighborhood Image

The East Bayfront is home to a core of committed residents who have been working to revitalize the neighborhood through Neighborhood Watch, a grassroots, all-volunteer network of citizens working to halt the decline and build a cohesive neighborhood.

The East Bayfront Neighborhood Watch, formed in 1992, is recognized as Erie's most aggressive, successful and sustainable Neighborhood Watch. Residents are making the East Bayfront cleaner, safer and better through the following activities: monitoring crime, housing and parking conditions; cleaning and maintaining two parks and the Bayfront bluff; building neighborhood identity through meetings, newsletters and special events; serving as an advocate for the neighborhood; and involving children in activities that create a sense of belonging. Residents routinely sit on boards and committees that impact the Bayfront such as the planning committees for the Port Authority's bluff top greenway and Penn DOT's east side connector highway.