Downtown Master Plan Concept
What’s the Vision for Downtown Gresham?
Downtown Gresham is a walkable neighborhood that stitches together the historic main street and the transit center; that features various scales of activated public open spaces, has a variety of housing options, and supports entertainment, community-focused commercial, and the entrepreneurial spirit.
Draft Downtown Conceptual Framework Plan
Draft Goals and Objectives
- Connect Main St, Arts Plaza, and Central Max through an “Arts Walk’ that prioritizes bicycle and pedestrian circulation, public art, branding, and wayfinding.
- Create a downtown destination by turning two blocks of Main Street (between 2nd and 4th) into a fully pedestrian environment. Reroute public transportation to accommodate.
- Festival-style streetscape upgrade along Main Street.
- Establish and easily understood wayfinding and downtown branding strategies.
- Support multiple types/scales of housing and commercial infill.
- Consolidate city-provided parking into a district parking strategy to unlock development sites.
- Reorient events to align with Main Street, Arts Plaza, and Central MAX connection.
- Establish and robust mixed-use trail/bikeway to connect the Wy’East Trail to the Springwater Corridor.
- Maintain Main Street’s historic character through design guidelines.
- Improve key intersections that people use to access downtown.
- Apply universal design and human health and wellbeing standards to all future downtown improvement projects.
- Redevelop both Town Fair and Hogan areas into medium density neighborhoods. Break down the car-dominant super blocks to improve connectivity to wider city context.
- Preserve large existing trees and improve overall canopy coverage of downtown.
Project Area Boundaries
- West/East: Eastman Parkway to Hogan
- North/South: Division to Powell
Work to Date
The consultant group has been engaged with synthesizing feedback from various public outreach events, input from city staff, and others. This information was first documented in Draft Opportunities & Constraints This valuable and important feedback was used to develop project goals and objectives, as well as the draft framework master plan. The consultant group will continue to present draft plans and gather community feedback in the coming months.
Draft opportunities and constraints
Let’s shape the future of our Historic Downtown – together!
Opportunities and challenges downtown Gresham
Drop a pin to help us identify opportunities or challenges within downtown Gresham. Click on the plus sign button to access pins.
Pin colors:
- Green = What do you LIKE about the existing downtown experience?
- Yellow = What should we be considering in the Draft Conceptual Framework Plan?
- Red = What do you NOT LIKE about the current downtown experience?
Once you place your pin, please provide a comment describing why you like or dislike that area, feature, amenity, etc. or what you have identified as something to be considered within the Conceptual Framework Plan.
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