Experiential Videos
1. Nabisco Portal
A New Front Door Experience to serve as a geographic and symbolic center for the District.
The dynamic urban plaza will provide a welcoming entrance lobby, public facing ground-level uses, and a pedestrian portal through the building that will facilitate a new Pedestrian Promenade that is nearly a mile long and runs through the interior of the site. This will be the meeting point of the Penn Avenue Complete Street Experience, the East Liberty Boulevard Linear Park, and the new Pedestrian Promenade.
2. Underpass
A New, Welcoming Connection
The passageway that extends East Liberty Boulevard below the East Busway will be transformed into an experiential portal into Bakery Square and the new development site. A widened underpass will incorporate public art and lighting, and complete the bicycle and pedestrian connections from Larimer, Highland Park and East Liberty.
3. Multimodal Hub
Support New Multimodal Hub and MLK Busway Stop
We will advocate for a new busway stop between Homewood and East Liberty.To make this a true multimodal hub we include a 3,000 car parking garage. We will also prioritize connections to the greater bicycle network, micro-mobility stations, transfer points for other bus routes, tram and shuttle access.
4. Linear Park
A continuous park that includes green spaces and a mutli-use paths.
East Liberty Boulevard is an important bicycle, vehicle, and pedestrian connection through East Liberty, Larimer, & Highland Park. The street doesn’t reflect modern standards because the bike lanes are unprotected and in the door-zone of parked vehicles. On-street parking is currently underutilized and the median space could provide more use to the neighborhood as an inhabitable space. We propose a continuous linear park that includes green spaces and a mutli-use path connecting Negley Avenue to Penn Avenue.
5. Main Plaza
A Seamless Connection Between the East Liberty Business District & Bakery Square.
The Penn Avenue-Shady Avenue Intersection will become a major gateway and seamlessly link the East Liberty Business District with the New Development Site and Bakery Square. Widening the Penn Avenue bridge as it crosses the busway will replace a cramped sidewalk with a signature pedestrian environment, filling a gap in the existing pedestrian network and transforming an uninviting bottleneck into a welcoming threshold experience.
6. Complete Street
Penn Avenue will be transformed into an urban, multi modal street.
Improvements will be made with the addition of high- quality bike lanes, a more thoughtful pedestrian environment, upgraded bus stops, and a road diet that calms and organizes vehicle traffic. Sidewalks along the existing Bakery Square development and extending along the new development site will reintroduce active human- scaled experiences to Penn Avenue and reposition it as a modern day urban boulevard that creates a front door for the entire site.
7. Connector
An additional portal for pedestrians and cyclists to cross the East Busway.
The landscaped bridge plaza connects the emerging Hamilton Avenue commercial corridor and the larger Larimer community to Bakery Square and to the new development site. As Hamilton Avenue continues to grow with a mix of commercial and industrial users, institutions, and food and beverage establishments, this link will ensure that great urban experiences can happen.
“If your purpose is to build a neighborhood, you look at the human capital in that area. The development is about how you improve people’s lives, not what you build.”
— Ed Gainey, Mayor Elect
Development Influences and Interventions
The District Vision Plan (DVP) considers a wide range of issues and forces that will influence site development. Consideration has gone into the impacts each of these will create, the opportunities they present, and how we can begin to leverage each to build an innovative District that stitches the five adjacent neighborhoods together into a sum that is exponentially greater than its parts.
Multimodal Funding Request
Our vision aligns with neighbors, partners, and city leaders in regards to the Larimer-Homewood Multimodal Greenway Extension and the Hamilton Avenue/Larimer Pedestrian Bike Bridge.
