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D O W N T O W N
Market Street Mini Streetscape
This streetscape project will provide enhancements
between Elm and Davie streets on the north side of
Market Street. The streetscape will complement the
recent renovations to the Southeastern Building and
will include a wider sidewalk, café-style dining area,
landscaping, benches, enhanced street lighting, and
bicycle racks. This project will also incorporate a new
downtown bike lane, which will run from Eugene Street
to Church Street.
East Lewis Street
The southeast corner of
E. Lewis Street has been
upgraded to create an
outside dining area for the
public as well as a wider
sidewalk, landscaping,
and bicycle parking for
our bike-share program.
These enhancements complement recent building
renovations in the area.
Union Square
The Union Square Campus is a joint campus of Cone
Health, NC A&T State University, the UNC at Greensboro,
and Guilford Technical Community College that opened
in 2016. In association with the new Union Square
Campus, Greensboro Department of Transportation
(GDOT) has implemented several transportation
improvements to this area, including wide sidewalks,
new traffic signal mastarms, decorative crosswalks, LED
streetlights, pedestrian streetlights, landscaping, and a
parking lot.
Center City Enhancements Now Underway
Like the downtown construction boom in the 1980s,
Greensboro’s Center City is about to see another
explosion of new high-rise developments – and two
new parking decks.
The City has partnered with private developers to
build two decks that will be integrated into the new
developments and provide up to 2,050 additional
downtown parking spaces. The developers will build
the decks and the City will own and operate them
once they are complete.
Greensboro’s Department of Transportation (GDOT)
will finance the $57 million for the two parking
structures with bonds that will be paid back over the
next 30 years with a mix of parking revenues and
general fund revenues.
One deck will have 850 spaces and will be located
along the west side of Davie Street, from to Elm Street
Center, spanning over February One Place. The deck
will support the expansion of Elm Street Center,
which will include a new hotel and event space.
The second, 1,200 space deck will be built at the
southwest corner of Eugene and Bellemeade streets
to support a new 10-story office building being
developed next to the Greensboro Grasshopper’s
ballfield. This deck will also include some mixed-use
development.
The City’s four existing parking decks are near
capacity. These additions will support the new
developments and the recent expansion of Lincoln
Financial, which has brought hundreds of new
employees to downtown Greensboro.
Public-Private PartnershipWorks to Build New Downtown Decks
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