Main Avenue Park

Another part of BCbD’s Flats Connection Plan is to reinvent asphalt lots underneath the Main Avenue (Shoreway) Bridge as a park serving residents of the Flats, Downtown and adjacent neighborhoods. The dominant feature of the park will be water. The Main Avenue Park will hold and treat the large amounts of stormwater flowing off the bridge, in a series of pools cascading down to the Cuyahoga River. The park would also provide habitat for birds and other species, and a boardwalk would be constructed across the pools to allow people to get an up-close experience of this new natural area. The well-known blue Main Avenue Bridge overhead would provide a dramatic, cathedral-like “ceiling” for the park.