Completed Highways to Boulevards Projects

  • Jazz Market New Orleans Audience Seating
    Jazz Market New Orleans Audience Seating
    Trumpeting a cultural revival
    <strong>Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market</strong>&nbsp; <em>New Orleans, Louisiana</em>
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  • Mercado District | Tucson, Arizona
    A timeless place from the ground up. #thisiscnu
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  • A unique building becomes a hub for historic neighborhoods
    <strong>Ponce City Market</strong> <em>Atlanta, GA</em>
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  • Southside
    Ten acres that transformed a city #thisiscnu
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  • Expanding options for a car-oriented suburban area
    <strong>Village of Providence</strong> <em>Huntsville, AL</em>
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  • From parking lot to urban tour-de-force
    <strong>UCLA Weyburn</strong>&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles, California</em>
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    From former warehouse to "vertical village"
    <strong>Crosstown Concourse</strong>&nbsp; <em>Memphis, Tennessee</em>
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  • Historic arcade houses young professionals
    <strong>Microlofts at The Arcade Providence</strong>&nbsp;<em>Providence, Rhode Island</em>
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  • A mixed-use center for town and gown
    <strong>Storrs Center</strong> <em>Mansfield, CT</em>
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Completed Highways to Boulevards projects highlight the potential impacts and benefits of removing highways from cities. Each example provides useful insights into the political and social capital necessary for a successful removal effort and serves as inspiration for future highway removal projects. Several also offer cautionary tales about building new, overly-large roads when removing highways and the need to establish anti-displacement protections that keep residents currently living around highways in place once the highway’s gone.

Boston | The Big Dig
Chattanooga | Riverfront Parkway
Madrid | Manzanares River Banks
Milwaukee | Park East Freeway
Montreal | Bonaventure Expressway
New Haven | Route 34
New York City | Sheridan Boulevard
Niagara Falls | Robert Moses Parkway
Oakland | Mandela Parkway
Paris | Pompidou Expressway
Portland | Harbor Drive
Providence | I-195
Rochester | Inner Loop
San Francisco | Embarcadaro Freeway
San Francisco | Octavia Boulevard
Seattle | Alaskan Way Viaduct
Seoul | Cheonggye Freeway
St. Louis | I-70