03/16/2018
Enjoyed attending the Community-Engaged Design Charrette for West Gate City Boulevard. We're excited to be a part of the improvements to our City!
Information from the organizers:Community-Engaged Design at 842-B West Gate City Boulevard at Tate Street. The intent of the design charrette is to initiate a community-based remake the West Gate City corridor as a thriving transit-oriented development with excellent walking and bicycling facilities that connect UNCG to the coliseum and downtown.
A well-designed, multi-user corridor will lead to a new wave of high quality economic development for Greensboro. The design charrette is an opportunity for UNCG and the Glenwood neighbors to jointly create a collective vision along with the larger community of what their shared main street could be in a way that satisfies the needs of everyone.
Sponsors of the design charrette event include the UNCG Center for Community-Engaged Design, TAP and the community advocacy group Bikesboro.. They are working with the local communities who use West Gate City Blvd as a transit, walking and bicycling corridor. The project grew from a group of grassroots advocates who felt more could be done in the community to accommodate bicyclists, pedestrians and transit users on city streets. The project will attempt to create a vision of what Gate City Blvd should be based on the multi-million dollar investment that has already been promised to
rebuild the street. The West Gate City design charrette is part of the 5th annual UNCG Novem Mason Symposium.
