The Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA) completed a Public Realm Study in mid-2021 that identified strategies and ideas to support economic revitalization and re-invigorate our downtown through activations in the post-Covid era. Emerging out of the worst of the pandemic, there was the opportunity to proactively rethink our public realm, use lessons learned from the past year, and improve our policies to position downtown Raleigh as a more flexible, creative and inclusive city of the future.
To help City of Raleigh staff and Council evaluate if and how to integrate these temporary measures into a more permanent state, as well as provide ideas to re-invigorate our downtown through activations, DRA initiated this Public Realm Study to gather and synthesize downtown stakeholder feedback on the following three key areas:
- The permanent expansion of outdoor seating through streeteries and expanded use of sidewalk space.
- The need for more permanent curbside pick-up zones for take-out food, to-go drinks and soft goods, grocery pick-up.
- Strategies to re-energize downtown and attract people through use of our public realm and outdoor spaces with small-scale diverse activations.
Project Details
- Type:
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City Properties and Facilities
- Project Lead:
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Dhanya Sandeep
