Current Projects
The A2 DDA is continually underway with a wide variety of projects and programs to address current needs and work toward improving downtown.
Projects in 2007/08 include the following:
- Assisting the City with the sale and redevelopment of the First & Washington site as a public/private project that includes public parking and apartments
- Providing historic façade loans and Partnerships Grants to exceptional downtown projects
- Providing grants for alternative transportation programs such as commuter rail, the downtown Link circulator, and go!passes for downtown employees
- Benchmarking downtown activity and vitality
- Continuing its alley repair project
- Adding a floor to the Fourth & William parking structure
- Developing new strategies to maximize existing parking spaces and recommendations to City Council to add additional downtown public parking.
Current projects also include:
- Creating a new wayfinding system for downtown
- Improvements on Division/Fifth/Huron to make them “complete streets” that accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists
- Sculpture plaza repairs in partnership with the City’s Parks Department