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I would also love a community garden!
I'd love to see a small community volunteer garden where people like myself can teach others in the neighborhood about the joy and benefits of gardening. I'd also love to see something similar to what I had growing up at The Center (E.Central community center). I remember having so much fun there as a kid and the annual Christmas dinner party with Santa and gifts, it really brought the community together ahead I miss that and wish we had more the old Eastside vibe.
It would be nice to know exactly where/when the new freeway expansions will impact the block along 3rd. Is that going to become an onramp/offramp area? Are we expanding it to more lanes? Are we rebuilding homes there? Is it going to remain as empty lots of land for more than 20 years? Knowing how the neighborhood is going to be forced to change there is going to be important to know to properly plan how we invest any money now.
At the intersection of 5th and Thor- please create a turn lane for WB turning S onto Thor and EB turning S onto Thor and add a blinking yellow turn signal for the WB to S lane. We make a line, wait behind one or more cars waiting to turn, and can't go straight unless they pull all the way to the left. Make the street adjacent the red wheel a no parking zone and there's plenty of space to accommodate an extra lane.
Since 3rd is a one-way East bound, and 5th is too narrow to add any biking/pedestrian lanes, we could make it a West bound one-way. It would terminate the one way at the library. The start of the one way would be the intersection of Greene and 5th to allow folks behind the Fred Meyer to be able to access all directions of travel. By reducing the travel lane to a single lane, we can reserve a bus stop space at each stop where parking is prohibited and allows the bus to access the curb fully for disabled passengers. Instead of restriping and moving the traffic lane, bicycles could use the old EB lane as two-way bikes only. Bollards would be placed at intersections in front of the EB lane with space for bicycles but not enough for cars. At minimum, please repaint the crosswalks and stop lines at 5th and Fiske because many people still don't stop at the stop sign because there's no line to stop to.
Redevelop the fifth Avenue corridor to favor, biking and walking and put more business storefronts on fifth Avenue!!!!! new business development small storefront along with mixed use housing!!!!!! we want neighborhood stores in the neighborhood!!!!
Would like the street redrawn and converted to favor bikes and walking!!! And a new business park development off Altamont and second Ave and more store fronts on 5th Ave !
I bike through this neighborhood to get to work using 5th Avenue. I feel comfortable overall, but bike lane markings at and between Freya and Thor would make me feel safer passing through these intersections (feel squeezed sometimes). Also some traffic calming or additional signage on 5th between Freya and Havana would also be appreciated. 5th Ave (between Freya and Havana) is treated as the priority street but it is still confusing who has priority on the cross streets.
Liberty Park is still a park open to the community - not the frisbee throwing people that are trying to take it over. It's just an addition to the park, not THE attraction of the park
more sidewalks; native plants; paved roads; public transit
I believe walkability is vital to community culture and local engagement. From Freya to Liberty Park would benefit from thoughtful and walkable development
connecting Fresh Soul neighborhood to the other neighborhoods via walking and biking would create community
make construction less noisy
have a pedestrian square with NO cars - area where CMC is could be a cool no car zone
community food garden!
famers markets on 5th Avenue (like Kendall yards night market, etc.)
community garden areas!
Juneteenth history walk in remembrance and celebration - unity walk
Underhill sledding hill - fun and wild!
this neighborhood needs to be included in any plan to revitalize and improve the quality of life in Spokane going forward
To see expansions for housing and keep the community and families together. To help in the upgrade of houses that are not in the best condition
Free "third places" for youth to hang out and be engaged
Centennial Trail South of freeway, walkability, parking for Ben Burr Trail
Would patronize Soul Food more often if it was open more often
Mixed use housing; basic needs business on street level and housing above: laundry; bussing; walkable grocery; restaurants
The sidewalks are not good for activities like biking
Increase access to Freya/Ray. All traffic is mainly on 5th and 3rd
Develop a walkable section - pedestrian area - like a Piazza in Europe!
Rebuild mixed use housing where WSDOT tore down on 3rd and 2nd. Mixed income!
Ben Burr is great! Getting more love from folks picking up garbage. Love that the city keeps working on issues of homeless who camp along the trail. Also great work on Liberty Park! Thanks!
Bike trail; walking trails; wheelchair accessible; more trees; better lighting; more investment in social housing
Dead End makes it hard to navigate around kids in park. Sledding hill can be mowed before winter
How do we make it feel like the Ben Burr Trail isn't a wall between Perry and 5th?
Love the walkability of this community. I live on the other side of Freya (east) and this section feels less connected and walkable/bikeable to get to
There are huge city trees in front of 412 S. Greene. The roots have made the sidewalk very dangerous, refugee family moved in - who fixes this? Who maintains the ally?
Traffic calming on 5th between Freya and Havana - make it safer to bike through. Confusing who has priority
This space has a deep history. Beautify without gentrifying. Give us food, shopping, access to those parks!
We love visiting the library even though we live in a different neighborhood.
I really like the Library. Great place for families! And dogs!
LOVE the Liberty Park Library. Would like to see better access and signage to the Ben Burr Trail. Speed "humps" on 5th Ave would help reduce speeding on this important avenue!
I think one big concern is the way it's zoned. Currently, there is not enough space to bring in new business or even to just expand some of the bigger businesses.
This strip here, means a lot to me because, when I first moved out, you know, this was where I found my people. So really preserving this and bolstering like what it means to a lot of folks, even folks who've moved out right like they still look at here as kind of like their home base.
What are the memory catchers for this neighborhood? How do you sustain them? Don't let them run down.
My vision is we should give people that safe, sustainable, green, walkable space to reimagine community and reimagine what upward mobility can look like.
I think, a safe, equitable, affordable, sustainable community is what success looks like for this neighborhood. And what that means is to have the walkability again, which was stripped, to be able to walk to the stores, to have the green spaces. Let's get the traffic calming, right? Investing in public transportation routes that can get people to and from, walkable, and again, safe, affordable, where we're not pricing people out that's the vision of that all inclusive, beloved community.
if I had to do in in one word, it's home, right? Because East Central is essential to my growth, development, survival, all of the above, I mean all my life
Cars go fast on Altamont - this intersection feels unsafe