Vancouver Main Street

Street Improvement Project

Project Summary

Project Level: Professional Work — First Forty Feet

Project type: Street Design

Year: 2022- 2023

Location: Vancouver,Washington

Main Tools: Sketchup Pro, Q-GIS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Enscape, After Effects, Auto CAD

Vancouver Main Street Concept (Draft)

Team: Will Grimm, James Brackenhoff, Jason Graf, Cindy Trivisonno, Megan Doherty

The City of Vancouver revisits Downtown’s Main Street to improve its safety, accessibility and connectivity to businesses, residents, and visitors. This project will reconstruct Main Street from 5th Street to 15th Street. Main objectives are widening sidewalk space, increasing public amenities, creating space for businesses along the street to use, improving quality of alternative transportations, and maintaining parking efficiency.

One Street Three Designs

Our project team designs three possible concepts using feedbacks from the stakeholders at our community engagements.

The Active Middle design miximizes the public space and utilize the furnishing zones as a flexible space for various activities like dinning, sitting,, playing, or performing art.

The Linear Park is designed to maximize the green space.

The Active Edge gives more frontage space to businesses along the Main Street, so they can use extra space for seating, planting, or bike parking.