The first ever Downtown Greenway Restaurant Week was a huge success! Thank you to all of the supporters who came downtown to try some new restaurants and support the Downtown Greenway. 873 Downtown Greenway themed menu items were served at the 7 participating restaurants. Special thanks to 1618 Downtown, Crafted the Art of Street Food, Table 16, B. Christopher's Undercurrent, M'coul's, and LaRue for being part of this fun week of great food, good friends, and great support for the Downtown Greenway.
We appreciate the support and hard work of several groups in Greensboro who have volunteered their time to clean up the Downtown Greenway! Thanks for helping keep the 'green' in the Greenway!
Duke Energy employees came out in June to help clean up the area on Morehead Park.
In July, Piedmont Natural Gas employees got Meeting Place at Tradition Cornerstone in great shape by pulling weeds and trimming.
On August 22, employees and students from UNCG came out to for a Spartan Day of Service and helped clean up the area at Morehead Park.
North Carolina Rail-Trails summer 2015 newsletter feature article: 'Atlantic & Yadkin Rail-Trail: Path to a bright future in Guilford County' talks about the extensive trail system in Greensboro with over 90 miles of trail just in the Lake Brandt and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park area. Dabney Sanders, Project Manager for the Downtown Greenway says in the article: "Greensboro has a great trail system, but we lack connectivity to the urban core.' This of course will change soon with design nearly complete, and public and private funding that is 100% secured for the north, east, and south sections of the Downtown Greenway 4 mile loop. Click here to learn more about North Carolina Rail-Trails.
If you missed the strawberries in May, there are now pears growing on the trees at Meeting Place at Tradition Cornerstone! Stop by and pick a pear, but please pick just one so others may enjoy them too.
Meeting Place is located at the corner of Smith and Prescott Streets in downtown Greensboro. Click here for a map.
Thank you to those who were able to attend the Public Meetings for Phase 2 on April 27, 2015. Over 60 people attended and shared questions and comments about the 50% design for the revised plan for Phase 2 of the Downtown Greenway. Click here to review the responses to the questions and comments posed at the public meetings and on the surveys.
We will have the 100% plans for Phase 2 completed in October and expect construction to begin in late summer 2016. Go to the complete construction timeline.
The first ever Wheels on the Greenway kid bike event was a huge success! We had over 75 kids, 35 skateboarders, and 150 in attendance! Click here to see all the photos from the event.
Special thanks to our event partners:
Piedmont Parent/FIT Family Challenge
Safe Kids Guilford County
City of Greensboro Parks & Recreation
K2 Productions
Recycles
Kona Ice of Greensboro
Elsewhere
Le Bleu
Trek
The Phillips Foundation has given a $1.5 million grant to the Downtown Greenway, giving the foundation naming rights for Phase 4 of the project which will follow the railroad tracks from Spring Garden to Hill Street. Design firm Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc has been selected to do the design work for this section. Elizabeth Phillips, Executive Director of Phillips Foundation, said "Our Downtown Greenway will be the only trail of its kind in North Carolina and one of just a few in the country." Construction expected to begin in 2017.
Minneapolis artist Randy Walker has been selected to design and create the Innovation Cornerstone (NE) at the corner of Lindsay Street and Murrow Boulevard. Randy's work has a relationship to both textiles and innovative play. Click here to see examples of his work and bio.
Timeline for construction of the cornerstone: Randy will return to Greensboro, June 3-5, 2015 for a series of meetings to learn more about the community to further inform his design for the Innovation Cornerstone. He will present a formal proposal for the site in July and then begin construction of the piece after approval. Anticipated installation of the artwork and completion of the site no later than Spring 2016.
The Downtown Greenway hit a milestone on Facebook this week reaching 2,000 likes! Click here to like the Downtown Greenway on Facebook. Follow us on all social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Pinterest by clicking links on the left of the screen.
A huge shout out to the volunteers who joined gardener Charlie Headington and Madeleine Carey with Parks & Recreation on a chilly spring day to get Meeting Place at Tradition Cornerstone ready for the spring and summer months.
If you are interested in volunteering, please email Madeleine at gsotrails@greensboro-nc.gov