New Plans For Reno’s Downtown Train Trench

Posted by Myrna the Minx on February 3, 2008 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Image courtesy of the RGJAccording to the RGJ, the city has released a new $500,000 study by Freedman, Tung and Bottomley, the urban design firm in San Francisco that prepared the original “blueprint” for downtown Reno in 1991, incorporates a greenbelt, more pedestrian bridges, and retails and residential development between Idlewild Park and Wells Avenue. If the city can carry the new long-terms plan through, it will dovetail nicely with the new baseball stadium and the train trench plaza along third street behind the Montage. I really like the emphasis on mid-rise residential buildings as well although I still have a hard time believing that anyone would want to live next to the train trench–covered or not. I still hear the trains running through downtown at night. Although, if the city and developers can succeed in making the area desirable enough, I guess anything is possible.

I hope the city remains committed to creating as much green space as featured in the plan–views, open spaces, and the river are what will continue to make downtown Reno special and livable.

Does this mean someone is finally going to knock the gigantic yellow eyesore that is the King’s Inn? Anyway, you can give the city your feedback at meeting on Monday at 5:30pm in the council chambers at City Hall.

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Good to see this plan is getting some coverage. Turning that ReTRAC corridor into a grand boulevard is something a lot of people have been looking forward to since they started the project. Especially encouraging is the pedestrian bridge that would connect Idlewild into the rail corridor and encouraging greater connectivity between all the neighborhoods along the route. Neat stuff!

Comment by Ken on February 3, 2008 @ 1:56 pm

I like this but I remain skeptical. Who is going to provide all those housing mortgages with the problems and investigations related to the mortgage industry right now?

These are interesting times we live in.

Comment by NVMojo on February 3, 2008 @ 3:13 pm

I’m sure the residential development will come much later

Comment by Myrna the Minx on February 3, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

All in all, I’m thinking this town might be the best place
to retire in after all.

We need a supermarket downtown. Save Mart is too far for many of us older folks. (At least when it’s this cold.)

Mr. Mayor, can we get something going on that front????
These small corner stores just don’t cut it!

Comment by Mike Jamieson on February 4, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

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