Articles Tagged with ''landscape/urban development''

A transformative $325-million program has converted three long-standing and underutilized downtown Omaha parks into an amenity-rich open space, anchored by the Missouri River.

Spanning seven acres, the comprehensive $70-million renovation has revitalized an iconic public space into a vibrant, accessible, and sustainable urban plaza.

Part of a larger East River Waterfront esplanade, the in-water structure fills in a gap in Manhattan’s Waterfront Greenway, a planned continuous 32.5-mile loop around the island.

The 26-mile Cross Charlotte Trail is a continuous, separated and connected greenway system stretching from the North Carolina-South Carolina state line through uptown Charlotte to Cabarrus County.

Once an asphalt parking lot that covered much of Clearwater’s waterfront, the city envisioned the 19-acre site as an urban bayfront destination that could be a catalyst for downtown economic development.

With an aging existing park with disparate elements that were not being used to their fullest potential, the city of Tempe, Ariz., moved to create a community park with this $11.5-million project, which features revamped recreation and aquatic programs.

Ten acres of previously vacant industrial property has been transformed into open green space, a public plaza and 1,400 linear ft of waterfront promenade as part of this $51.9-million project.

An overgrown, trash-strewn lot between two downtown freeway ramps now serves as a nursery to raise trees suited specifically to San Francisco’s varied microclimates.

This project added a pair of land bridges over a road dividing Houston’s largest park in order to reunite its north and south sides and improve connectivity for both visitors and wildlife.

This public gathering place for ceremonies, remembrance events and educational programs serves as a prominent gateway into the community of Kyle.