GDOT Annual Report 2017

D O W N T O W N

Center City Enhancements Now Underway

Market Street Mini Streetscape This streetscape project will provide enhancements between Elm and Davie streets on the north side of Market Street. The streetscape will complement the recent renovations to the Southeastern Building and will include a wider sidewalk, café-style dining area, landscaping, benches, enhanced street lighting, and bicycle racks. This project will also incorporate a new downtown bike lane, which will run from Eugene Street to Church Street.

These enhancements complement recent building renovations in the area. Union Square The Union Square Campus is a joint campus of Cone Health, NC A&T State University, the UNC at Greensboro, and Guilford Technical Community College that opened in 2016. In association with the new Union Square Campus, Greensboro Department of Transportation (GDOT) has implemented several transportation improvements to this area, including wide sidewalks, new traffic signal mastarms, decorative crosswalks, LED streetlights, pedestrian streetlights, landscaping, and a parking lot.

East Lewis Street The southeast corner of E. Lewis Street has been upgraded to create an outside dining area for the public as well as a wider sidewalk, landscaping, and bicycle parking for our bike-share program.

Public-Private PartnershipWorks to Build New Downtown Decks

Like the downtown construction boom in the 1980s, Greensboro’s Center City is about to see another explosion of new high-rise developments – and two new parking decks. The City has partnered with private developers to build two decks that will be integrated into the new developments and provide up to 2,050 additional downtown parking spaces. The developers will build the decks and the City will own and operate them once they are complete. Greensboro’s Department of Transportation (GDOT) will finance the $57 million for the two parking structures with bonds that will be paid back over the next 30 years with a mix of parking revenues and general fund revenues.

One deck will have 850 spaces and will be located along the west side of Davie Street, from to Elm Street Center, spanning over February One Place. The deck will support the expansion of Elm Street Center, which will include a new hotel and event space. The second, 1,200 space deck will be built at the southwest corner of Eugene and Bellemeade streets to support a new 10-story office building being developed next to the Greensboro Grasshopper’s ballfield. This deck will also include some mixed-use development. The City’s four existing parking decks are near capacity. These additions will support the new developments and the recent expansion of Lincoln Financial, which has brought hundreds of new employees to downtown Greensboro.

PAGE 9