Covering Freeways with Parks
U.S. cities are increasingly utilizing below-grade freeway segments as vacant space to cover with parkland. The "land" for such parks is usually free, made available as air rights by the state transportation agency. In center-city locations, where real estate is scarce and expensive, this can amount to a multi-million-dollar gift to the city -- and one that will generate additional economic spin-off from the new park. See the attached pdf of the article that appeared in the April, 2007 issue of
Urban Land (reprinted with permission) or a shortened version of the article that appeared in the January, 2007 issue of
Governing magazine.
More information on the Urban Land Institute, the publisher of Urban Land, can be found at www.uli.org.
Posted 5/2007
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