by Riverfront Plan | Sep 21, 2022 | Riverfront News
The four waterways that converge in downtown Dayton flow through parks and neighborhoods all over the city. Many of these corridors host our bikeways—part of the nation’s largest off-road trail network—linking regional towns and attractions along hundreds of miles of...
by Riverfront Plan | Jul 22, 2022 | Riverfront News
Dayton’s flood control system is the envy of the world. After the Great Flood of 1913, the Miami Conservancy District was formed with a system of five dry dams, ground-breaking engineering and hundreds of miles of levees which have kept the region safe from high water...
by Riverfront Plan | Jun 21, 2022 | Progress Reports, Riverfront News
The vibrant redevelopment of downtown is spilling up, down, and over our rivers to Dayton’s neighborhoods along all points of the compass. The Dayton Riverfront Plan continues to spur on this evolution. The Third Street Bridge has reopened; the Gem City Market is...
by Riverfront Plan | May 27, 2022 | Riverfront News
In 1911, the Olmstead Brothers, sons of Fredrick Law Olmstead, the Father of Landscape Architecture, laid out Dayton’s System of Parks and Parkways. In that design, the Olmstead Brothers envisioned ribbons of parks along our rivers. Motorists could drive the parks’...
by Riverfront Plan | Apr 20, 2022 | Riverfront News
Many of you may have seen the television interviews and the newspaper articles a few weeks ago about plans for Sunrise MetroPark and the Unity Bridge over the Great Miami River. In addition local TV coverage, reporting on the bridge can be found online at the Dayton...
