Blake Avenue

The City of Glenwood Springs hosted an open house on June 6 to collect community insights on improvements they would like to see in the corridor, prioritize design elements, and comment on four early concepts for Blake Ave. between 7^th and 13^th Street. These concepts will inform the design development of project plans for the reconstruction of Blake Ave. between 13^th and 27^th Street.

Participate Now

• View the timeline and concept boards. (PDF)
• Share your comments on the four early concepts and your insights for the Blake Avenue corridor. Please submit comments by June 20.

Each concept shows potential ways to improve safety, function, parking and pedestrian/bike access in the corridor. Participants will be asked to prioritize design elements that they feel are most important to the corridor including pedestrian/bike facilities, traffic calming, on-street parking, and trees. Feedback will be used to select and refine a preferred roadway section alternative for the corridor.

“The whole stretch of Blake Avenue north of Walmart is in bad shape and no amount of crack seal or chip and seal will solve it, but by redesigning with community input and then reconstructing we can build a better road and make critical infrastructure and safety improvements,” shared Public Works Director Matt Langhorst. “The concepts aim to spur conversation with community members to inform the redesign. We know that we definitely need to fix the underlying issues and upgrade utilities, but the surface level design can respond to the insights and input from the community.”

Project Background and Goals

The Blake Avenue Redesign project is to develop construction drawings to completely rebuild Blake Avenue between 13^th Street and 27^th Street, including 23^rd, 24^th and 26^th Streets as part of the project. Including 7^th to 13^th Street in the design helps staff plan what the whole street section will look like through town and gives a starting point for those block that are in good condition today, but will need improvements in the future.

In 2024, construction is expected to begin on Blake Avenue from 24^th to 27^th Street, and including, 24^th and 26^th Street rebuilds between Blake Avenue and State Highway 82.  The goals of the redesign are to fix underlying utility/storm/roadway structure issues, improve pedestrian and bike access and safety, improve user experience for multimodal use, enhance traffic calming, upgrade sidewalks and roadway surfacing.

Blake Avenue Redesign is budgeted at $771,000 and is funded through the City’s Street Tax, Water and Sewer Departments, Electric Department and a $100,000 Roaring Fork Transportation Authority First/Last Mile Mobility Reserve (FLMMR) Grant.

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