Brighten the Passage Design Charrette
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During the lunch hour on Wednesday, there will be a design charrette for the Brighten the Passage project. If you’re like to stop by to contribute, the group will be meeting on-street at the corner of Water Street and Wisconsin Avenue.
As a background on charrettes, they’re a planning technique that consults with all stakeholders to bring all ideas to the table and rapidly reach a solution to a design problem.
Please stop by and contribute. Your suggestions will be shared in advance of the upcoming design competition.
This event is just one of many Landscape Architecture events occurring across the the country on the 17th.
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I think street food vendor concentrations on Broadway and Milwaukee would be a great idea. Maybe as they become more successful offer incentives to build more permanent structures as they have done in Portland. Lining the street with lights and some plants would also be a plus…
Of course the more logical solution would be a street level boulevard connected to a street level lift bridge like the Millennium Bridge in Boston or Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, but it makes way more sense to dump $500M into a disgusting old bridge that eliminates possible development near the festival park instead, right?
DDVCHI said it best that the more logical solution would have been a street level boulevard. Water under the bridge now though right?!
As for this Brighten the Passage project…if their flyer is any indication of design talent, I am skeptical about what is to come. So as not to hate too much let me just say that the goal of the project is well intentioned and better than nothing.
@Nate a street level boulevard is possible… From Water st. on it is land.