Reconnecting a City Divided by Roads

Reconnecting a City Divided by Roads

The Dayton Riverfront Master Plan is, in many ways, a plan about connecting. This is a common theme among the many projects being advanced—connecting neighborhoods with waterways, connecting neighborhoods with one another and connecting residents with natural...
Waterway access through safer roads

Waterway access through safer roads

Back in May, we wrote about how the 1911 Olmstead Brothers plan for Dayton imagined bucolic parkways along the rivers. The intent was to connect people to our waterways, but one hundred years later those parkways have turned into high speed, divided roadways. These...
Creating Contiguous Open Space Corridors

Creating Contiguous Open Space Corridors

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...
Strengthening Connections to the River

Strengthening Connections to the River

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...
Spotlight on the Education Corridor

Spotlight on the Education Corridor

The Education Corridor of the Dayton Riverfront Plan provides the most dynamic opportunity for economic redevelopment. The corridor covers the south stretch of the Great Miami River from downtown to Carillon Historical Park, connecting some of the region’s strongest...