Downtown Greenway Year In Review 2025

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Spring Street Apartments were developed and opened this year. Leading up to their 10th anniversary in 2026, Joymongers has purchased the residential house between them and Deep Roots Market. Planning is underway for the brewery’s future use of that space. There are many additional sites ripe for development along the Downtown Greenway. We anticipate future development on those sites in the coming years that will add to the current $650+ million in private economic development that has happened to-date.

VOLUNTEERS

Thanks to the dedication of our valued 2025 volunteers, we had another productive year on the Downtown Greenway. We are especially grateful to our partners TriadWild! for helping keep our pollinator garden thriving, the Greensboro Permaculture Guild for guidance with our public orchard, and Water Resources for their collaborative work for storm drain marking on and around the greenway loop.

Our annual Downtown Greenway Volunteer Appreciation Social was held on January 29, 2025 with a lovely gathering at greenway neighbor, Machete.

TRANSITION With the anticipated May 2026 Grand Opening of the full four-mile loop, the City of Greensboro will assume all ownership and operations moving forward. The Downtown Greenway office within Action Greensboro will close and Dabney Sanders’s role as Project Manager will sadly be completed at the end of June 2026. Dabney reflected, “It is gratifying to see this project to its completion after 25 years in the making.” We extend our heartfelt thanks to Dabney for her 19 years of dedicated leadership as the Downtown Greenway Project Manager!