The Army Corps of Engineers signed off on the permit last Wednesday and Harris County Flood Control officials received approval of the individual permit for the project on Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration announced on Tuesday that his soon-to-be-unveiled executive budget will include $100 million to “significantly narrow” the “largest gap in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.”
A group of skateboarders is hoping the city will spare a small skatepark they’ve built on a walkway beside Fort York, about six months after crews demolished another DIY park in the west end.
Once seen as urban blight, abandoned industrial corridors and rail lines have been transformed into some of the country’s most popular parks and trails.
Washington D.C.’s Wards 6 and 8 are right next to each other, but the two could not be more different.
Talk of “infrastructure” may be one of the few things—if not the only thing—that comes close to uniting Democrats and Republicans at the moment.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced a new fund to help residents in the Beltline pay their rising tax bills as home prices increase in the area.
The 11th Street Bridge Park will physically connect both sides of the Anacostia River. It’s a 1,200-foot-long, pedestrian-only expanse that will let people stroll between Capitol Hill and Anacostia.
For Ryan Gravel—an urban planner by training who initially proposed the concept of the BeltLine in his Georgia Tech master’s thesis—urban infrastructure can serve as a metaphor for an entire culture.
Like bold pioneers, volunteers under the leadership of the Rotary Club of Cleveland continue to nurture a stretch of abandoned railroad right-of-way that parallels the RTA’s Red Line rapid tracks.
