[3] Lincoln's Antelope Valley Project creates a fresh aesthetic and a critical infrastructure complex.
Other project features include: Antelope Valley Parkway, a vehicular traffic way running from Cornhusker Highway South via the Parkway merging into Capital Parkway; a major vehicle arterial running from 27th Street West via State Fair Road merging into Salt Creek Roadway at the 'big X' and onto 9th Street; miles of recreational trails connected to an extensive city trail network; rail, pedestrian and vehicular bridges across the waterway; Trago Park and Union Plaza, both interactive water venues: access to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and the planned UNL research park through pedestrian and bicycle trails, bridges as well as major vehicular parkways, enumerated above.
On May 7, 2015, the city of Lincoln experienced its worst flood in recent history, following over six inches of rain beginning the night of May 6, 2015.
Though flooding in other areas of the city submerged cars and prevented driving, traffic flowed freely on the bridges and roads along the waterway.
Though critics of the project decried its high price tag, the waterway's worth was tested and proven by the response to this storm.
[6] Plaza architects intended elements of the park such as multilevel water features and colored wave embedded pavement to thematically reflect.
Anticipated surrounding the Plaza are: restaurants, shops, offices, other businesses, housing and a possible UNL Research Park extension (*under construction—completion 2010).
( ** See the Clark Enersen Partners design slideshow at: http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2007/09/24/special_reports/2015/doc45b0e88fda439352645014.txt#image ) Relocating crowded city streets is a significant element of a three-part major arterial project.
Part I. Antelope Valley Parkway provides a six-lane traffic way running the length of and parallel to the waterway (West side).
Connecting to Cornhusker Highway on the North, Antelope Valley Parkway will run approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
To date, numerous multi-family housing units have been constructed in an area from the channel North on Vine and East to 27th.
When complete, decorative grasses, flowering shrubs and ground cover will line the trails, waterway and vehicular traffic ways.
When complete, the Campus will comprise a sprawling complex of laboratories, ponds and extensive 'green' landscapes stretching throughout the current State Fair Park.
The Antelope Valley Project will provide unexpected research park benefits: two pedestrian bridges, waterway walk/hike/bike trails, cross-creek vehicle bridges—all providing city campus access to the UNL research park and the Bob Devaney Sports Complex.
The Antelope Valley Project is a partnership between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the City of Lincoln and the Natural Resources District (Lower Platte South).