DDD gets global award for ‘greenway’ planning

The Downtown Development District’s Downtown Greenway project has netted the agency the International Downtown Association Merit Award in Planning, says DDD Executive Director Davis Rhorer, who has also been elected to sit on the IDA board of directors. The Downtown Greenway, still in the planning stages, is a three-mile network of bike/pedestrian pathways downtown that will connect seven BREC parks and improve ties between downtown and surrounding areas. It is expected to cost between $2.7 million and $12 million. “Funding for planning/design for the greenway project continues to move forward and partial funding for implementation is also in place,” Davis says in a statement. “Work continues on developing the ‘scope of services’ for a solicitation of an RFQ, and notification of additional grant request(s) for implementation funds will be announced in November.” Rhorer will be attending an IDA conference this weekend in Charlotte, N.C., to accept the award and election to the board.