Rudy Bruner Award Collection

Title

Radial Reuse Project

Description

1989 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence - Silver Medal

Created on abandoned land once intended for a highway, the Radial Reuse Project is a four-mile linear park that revitalized neighborhoods in Lincoln, Nebraska. Completed in 1992, the project includes 75 acres assembled by the city over three decades for a proposed highway that was never built. The parkway provides needed recreation and open space and has sparked residential and business reinvestment in three of Lincoln’s older inner city neighborhoods.

After the highway was voted down in 1981, a citizen advisory board known as the Radial Reuse Task Force was formed to develop a plan to repurpose the vacant land. They proposed a new linear park with a bike and walking path that would revitalize adjacent neighborhoods and improve public infrastructure, stimulate private investment, and increase home ownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families. The project attracted more than $6.4 million in public funding and $17 million in private investment for the park and adjoining neighborhoods as well as programs to foster home ownership and improvement in low- and moderate-income communities.

Coverage

Lincoln, NE

Date

1992

Subject

mixed-use developments

housing rehabilitation

parks

public spaces

recreation areas

low-income housing

mixed-income housing

public-private sector cooperation

Contributor

City of Lincoln

Contributor

en Public Agency

City of Lincoln Urban Development Department

Contributor

en Developer

Clark Enerson Partners, Inc.

Contributor

en Architect

Bahr, Vermeer, Haecker Architects

Contributor

en Architect

Kim Todd

Contributor

en Landscape Architect

Radial Reuse Task Force

Contributor

en Community Group

Malone Redevelopment Study Committee

Contributor

en Community Group

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