Greenroads Pilot Project

Person Street Greenscape and Roundabout

 

Summary

Owner/Lead Design: City of Fayetteville, NC

Design Support: North Carolina State University

Contractor: Browe Construction

Construction Value: $1.2 million

Project Delivery: Design-Bid-Build 

Mileage: 0.3 miles

Rating System: Greenroads v2

Description

The City of Fayetteville has been working on revitalizing its downtown corridors in stages with added vegetation and street amenities, stormwater treatment facilities, and improved pedestrian, cycling, and parking facilities. The Person Street Greenscape and Roundabout Project is the City's first green infrastructure technology showcase. It has a laundry list of LID BMPs including permeable pavements, bioretentions, Silva Cells, and Filterra units, all within the right of way. The street improvements will also reduce the total impervious area within this three block section of downtown Fayetteville by a projected 13%, and treat and manage more than 85% of the stormwater from the project and offsite for nitrogen and phosphorus before it gets to impaired Blounts Creek. The project will also construct a roundabout and reduce street width on this major downtown corridor, providing traffic calming effects in the busy downtown area.

What we really love about this project is the collaboration between the City of Fayetteville and North Carolina State University's Bio & Agriculture Department, who helped to design the innovative layout AND will be installing monitoring systems for water quality. This means after the project is built we'll be able to get immediate proof of performance information about how well some of these LID systems are working for the City, on a block by block, and dollar for dollar, basis.

Other great features of the project include:

  • Planned connection to a future trail system
  • LED lighting to be installed by local private utility
  • Updated street amenities and placemaking efforts
  • Addition of more trees to provide shading
  • Wider sidewalks and bike lanes

 

15USNC001 Person Street Greenscape Brochure (1,113 kb)

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