 | Phillips to the Falls - Urban Core Redevelopment Project
Sioux Falls, South DakotaAbstractThe Phillips to the Falls project uniquely integrates land use planning with transportation system improvements to achieve numerous community livability goals of critical importance. Involved is the planned redevelopment of a core city site that has been a central feature of the City's most significant land use plans (the Big Sioux River Greenway plan, the Sioux Falls Downtown Development Plan and the 2015 Growth Management Plan). Transportation improvements integrated with these land use plans include railroad, bike / pedestrian River Greenway path, transit system and roadway improvements. The project will integrate the popular Falls Park destination with the largely revitalized central business district by redeveloping an aging downtown railroad switching yard and an adjoining scrap metal yard that separates the two economically prosperous areas. The readily adaptable, replicable approach to integrated planning advances key economic, social, cultural and environmental goals, more particularly described as follows: - Physically integrate Falls Park and Downtown. Enhance the City's image and build civic pride by improving project area aesthetics.
- Direct economic investments into the city core, expanding present downtown revitalization successes into the northern end of the central business district.
- Expand the region's tourism economy.
- Improve access to the Central Business District.
- Increase the use of public transportation.
- Promote Historic Preservation.
- Stabilize and revitalize aging central city neighborhoods.
- Improve enviromnental health.
- Reduce the need for commercial development at the city's fringes, thereby reducing the need for additional new transportation system expansions.
- Expand recreational opportunities.
- Create new jobs, diversifying the local economy.
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