Phillips West Pedestrian Promenade
The Midtown Greenway Coalition and the Phillips West Neighborhood Organization invite you to share comments on these concept drawings for a walkway we are proposing. The walkway would run along the Greenway's north edge from Chicago Avenue to Portland Avenue. We are working with Perkins+Will, our pro bono consultants, to revise the drawings. The final drawings will be used to advocate for implementation of the walkway. For background information, see the text below.
See the current proposed drawings here.
In Phillips West, there are no streets or walkways on either the north or south side of the Greenway between Portland and Chicago Avenues, but land exists to put in such a walkway without moving any buildings. A walkway here would allow neighborhood children and others to access nearby Greenway trail entrance ramps without traveling north to 28th Street or south to Lake Street in order to traverse east or west along the Greenway. A walkway here would also provide better access for residents within a block of the Greenway to get to Midtown Exchange and a future rail transit station in the Greenway at Chicago Avenue.
The proposed rim walkway in Phillips West is the third location where such a walkway will hopefully be implemented. The Midtown Lofts on the Greenway between Bryant and Colfax Avenues has one, as does another housing project now under construction, the Murals project immediately east of Lyndale Avenue above Vera’s Garden. These publicly accessible walkways make the Greenway safer and more accessible.
Promenades such as this have long been supported by the Midtown Greenway Coalition, the City of Minneapolis (see the Midtown Greenway Land Use and Development Plan, 2007), and the Midtown Community Works Partnership. In the future there will likely be additional locations where the Greenway’s edges are enhanced with public ways, such as incorporation into new developments or by installing a new sidewalk along 29th Street tracing the south edge of the Greenway between Fremont and Lyndale Avenues or between 10th and Cedar Avenues. |
