Urban Corridor Master Plan
The Wabash River is a critical regional and local resource. It is an economic, environmental, recreational, and cultural asset that is an essential cornerstone of our community's future health and prosperity. WREC would like to thank all of our funding and participating partners for their input and assistance on this project.
About the Urban Corridor Plan
A draft alternative concept for the Wabash River between the US 231 and Harrison bridges.
This planning effort is not the first planning initiative for the Wabash in the Lafayette-West Lafayette reach. Rather, it builds on a rich legacy of public participation. In addition to asking the community to share their insight about their vision for the future of the Wabash River, this planning process will be exploring new frontiers by developing a plan of action comprised of a series of implementable strategies and projects with both short and long term planning horizons.
The initial phase of the work is focused on the downtown river segment, which we define as the areas between the Route 52 Bridge to the north, the Route 231 Bridge to the south, primarily River Road to the west, and the Ninth Street corridor leading down to the rail corridor (south of Columbia) to the east.
Urban Corridor Plan Public Meetings
As part of this planning process, WREC and our contractor, Wallace, Roberts & Todd held three public meetings. The first meeting focus was to determine community members goals for the corridor and the second to present the first round of ideas developed from the communities goals. At the final meeting, WRT presented the final selected alternatives and detailed the associated costs to achieve these goals.
Urban Corridor Meeting 3
Urban Corridor Master Plan
The Urban Corridor Master Plan is in final editing stages and will be posted here when complete.