In December, we’ll share a progress report on all the Dayton Riverfront Plan projects that are in the works, underway, or completed. This month, we want to highlight a particular project—a study that is critical to the success of the entire Plan. There are three types...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
