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The Plan: The East Village has become in a vibrant area of downtown characterized by low density, low rise residential buildings with commercial and social uses on the grown floor. The proposed concept intends not only to reinforce the existing conditions on the area but to extend these conditions towards the north of Grand Avenue. It is also intended to lay the grounds for and an increase in interconnectivity of the area with the surrounding districts and its potential for expansion, in particular towards the south, spilling into Court Avenue and beyond.

East Village (EV)

Vision:

Overview:

The Problem:

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Walnut Street Transformation

Skywalks & Sidewalks

Greening Downtown

Downtown as aBusiness Hub

Living Downtown

Cultural Development

East Village

downtown transit on East Walnut Streetlong-range downtown transit on E. 6th Streetpark and ride serving transit

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prioritized north-south streets for pedestrian amenities: E. 4th, E. 5th, E. 6th StreetsGrand Avenue sidewalk widening

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open space at west side of City Hallbike lanes at E. 6th (south) and E.9th Streets (north)

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mixed use infill at E. Locust Streetinfill and adaptive reuseparking strategies

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mixed use with residential throughout district -- infill and adaptive reusenew construction at northeast riverfront

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focus cultural and retail, development between East Village and the Riverkey cultural / mixed use development site east of the River along E. Locust St.

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existing andproposed:CULTURALATTRACTIONS

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looking east along East Locust Street near East 2nd Street; the East Village is in the foreground with the State Capitol terminating Locust Street

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EAST COURT AVE. ZONING AREAEAST VILLAGE HIGH DENSITY ZONING AREAEAST VILLAGE MEDIUM DENSITY ZONING AREAPARKING BOUNDARIESSURFACE PARKING - LAND HOLDING STRATEGY

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EAST VILLAGE STUDY AREA - CONCEPTC.3.2 SCALE: 1" = 400'-0"

© 2006 AGREST AND GANDELSONAS ARCHITECTS, LLP. All rights reserved.

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REPORT #3AGREST AND GANDELSONAS ARCHITECTS, LLP

CONCEPT

- Consolidating the street walls on the north side of Grand Avenue and on the South side of Walnut Street. This will generate a frame for the low rise residential retail area known as East Village and a framed view from the State Capitol. (See section 3.10.2)

- Grand Avenue should be converted to a four lane street. The remaining width should be used to expand the North sidewalk to encourage pedestrian activities, retail, restaurants and shops. (see section 3.10.2)

- Maintaining the area between Grand Avenue and Walnut Street as low rise / low density. (see section 3.10.1)

- Enforcing the checkerboard blocks between Grand Avenue and Walnut Street. The idea of the checkerboard block should be studied further. The main characteristics of this type are: 1) Establishing a discontinued street and alternating street wall that always frames one side of the street with, 2) allowing for more light and open space, ample focal viewpoints and expanded street views . - The parking lots are an integral part of the “checkerboard” blocks. Regulations should be established for the enclosure of these parking lots. Attention should be given to landscaping opportunities and “green fences”. Parking lots should be understood as mixed areas: “parking > garden > public space”. - “Checkerboard” blocks are also proposed for the area North of Grand.

- The Consolidated Street Walls on the North side of Grand Avenue should be extended to the North following Robert D. Ray Drive establishing a Street Façade towards the East River Park and a visual connectivity with West downtown.

EAST COURT AVE. ZONING AREAEAST VILLAGE HIGH DENSITY ZONING AREAEAST VILLAGE MEDIUM DENSITY ZONING AREAPARKING BOUNDARIESSURFACE PARKING - LAND HOLDING STRATEGY

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E. 2nd Street Stop

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EAST COURT AVE. ZONING AREAEAST VILLAGE CENTRAL AREAEAST COURT AVE. PEDESTRIAN NODENORTH-SOUTH EAST VILLAGE CONNECTIONSENVISIONED PEDESTRIAN FLOWRIVER WALK EXPANSIONNEW STREETSNORHT SOUTH VEHICULAR CORRIDORTRAMWAY ROUTETRAMWAY STOPTRAMWAY TERMINAL STOP

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EAST COURT AVE. STUDY AREAEXISTING BUILDINGSEAST VILLAGE HIGH DENSITY ZONING AREA EASTVILLAGE MEDIUM DENSITY ZONING AREAPARKING BOUNDARIESPROPOSED FOOTPRINT HI-DENSITY AREAPROPOSED FOOTPRINT MEDIUM-DENSITY AREAARMORY BUILDINGCITY HALLEMBASSY SUITESU.S. COURT HOUSESTATE HISTORICAL BUILDINGPARKINGTRAMWAY ROUTETRAMWAY STOPTRAMWAY TERMINAL STOPNORTH-SOUTH VEHICULAR CORRIDORSRIVERWALK SOUTH EXPANSIONPEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR TO L.E.S.

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This diagram depicts the envisioned articulation of the East Village from a PEDESTRIAN and VEHICuLAR approach in order to establish a CIRCuLATION network fed by pedestrian and private and public vehicular movement.

- Tramway Stops: The proposed tramway should have 3 stops on the East Side. Each stop is coordinated with a nodal point of proposed pedestrian activity and is intended to generate north south pedestrian corridors. o E. 2nd Street Stop should promote pedestrian activity on the East River Walk and promote its expansion North and South. This stop should also feed pedestrian activity to reinforce the established small scale retail activity in the East Village. o E. 6th Street Stop will serve the E 5th street corridor which is now the core of the East Village. It will also link the E. 6th St. vehicular corridor to the transit system. o Capitol Station should link the proposed parking facilities surrounding the Capitol to the transit system. - East-West Pedestrian movement is expected to take place across the future Center Street pedeestrian bridge and existing Grand Avenue, Locust and Walnut Street bridges.

- E. 5th St. should become the pedestrian spinal cord for the East downtown residential and commercial activity with E. 5th St. & E. Locust Street as the East Village central node.

- E. 6th and 7th Streets should be considered as vehicular corridors. The existing connectivity of these streets towards I-235 and beyond to the North and the extension of 6th St. south of the Des Moines River makes them the ideal streets to establish and reinforce a vehicular corridor.

IMPLEMENTATION

- The parking lots are an integral part of the “checkerboard” blocks. Regulations should be established for the enclosure of these parking lots. Attention should be given to landscaping opportunities and “green fences”. Parking lots should be understood as mixed areas: “parking > garden > public space”.

- “Checkerboard” blocks are also proposed for the area North of Grand.

- The Consolidated Street Walls on the North side of Grand Avenue should be extended to the North following Robert D. Ray Drive establishing a street façade towards the East River Park and a visual connectivity with west downtown.

EAST COURT AVE. STUDY AREAEXISTING BUILDINGSEAST VILLAGE HIGH DENSITY ZONING AREA EASTVILLAGE MEDIUM DENSITY ZONING AREAPARKING BOUNDARIESPROPOSED FOOTPRINT HI-DENSITY AREAPROPOSED FOOTPRINT MEDIUM-DENSITY AREAARMORY BUILDINGCITY HALLEMBASSY SUITESU.S. COURT HOUSESTATE HISTORICAL BUILDINGPARKINGTRAMWAY ROUTETRAMWAY STOPTRAMWAY TERMINAL STOPNORTH-SOUTH VEHICULAR CORRIDORSRIVERWALK SOUTH EXPANSIONPEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR TO L.E.S.

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E. 2nd Street Stop

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EAST COURT AVE. ZONING AREAEAST VILLAGE CENTRAL AREAEAST COURT AVE. PEDESTRIAN NODENORTH-SOUTH EAST VILLAGE CONNECTIONSENVISIONED PEDESTRIAN FLOWRIVER WALK EXPANSIONNEW STREETSNORHT SOUTH VEHICULAR CORRIDORTRAMWAY ROUTETRAMWAY STOPTRAMWAY TERMINAL STOP

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EAST VILLAGE - STREET SECTIONSC.3.10 N.T.S.

- ‘Checkerboard blocks. Alternate solid void strategy. Landscaping of surface parking lots.

- Recommended maximum façade height of 50’.

- Commercial, retail, entertainment at ground level. Residential above.

- Proposed South façade height of 75’ to generate East Village ‘frame’. North ‘Checkerboard’ façade. - Realignment of the street to a four lane street with landscaping on both sidewalks.

- Commercial, retail, entertainment at ground level. Mixed use above.

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- Proposed North façade height of 75’ to generate East Village ‘frame’.

- Proposed widening of street to 4 lanes and sidewalk to accommodate pedestrian oriented activity on the north side of Grand Avenue. The width of north Grand Ave. sidewalks should be consistent with west downtown.

– Grand corridor through city.

- Commercial, retail, entertainment at ground level. Mixed use above.

- Proposed East façade height of 75’ to generate street wall with views towards Riverfront Park.

- Retail and entertainment at ground level. Residential neighborhood.

- 20’ setback at ground level for green expansion.

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- Water access

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Maintaining the spirit and the scale of the East Village with infill projects along East Locust Street.

Expanding the East Village to the south side of Walnut Street and the North side of Grand Avenue Walnut Street with downtown transit and bike lanes Grand Avenue sidewalk/roadway adjustments to create wide north sidewalk

Infill East Locust Street to frame Capitol and create East Village connection with Riverwalk and west downtown

East Village and Northeast Riverfront precedents (from top left): boats moored at housing along the

Menomonee River in Milwaukee, WI, a waterfront edge along the bay in San Francisco, CA, housing near the

Mississippi River in Minneapolis, mixed use street level activity in a residential area of Austin, TX, housing adjacent

to community gardens along the SW Connector Park in Boston, a ‘green’ setback for mulit-family residential in

Minneapolis, MN, current image of the East Village: looking west along East

Locust Street at E. 3rd Street towards the downtown core

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