Site Strategy - Reconnect

At present, Franklinton despite its proximity to Downtown is a "Walled City" being enclosed by an interstate to the West, and a railroad viaduct to the East. The strategy for the site will be to utilize the railroad viaduct as an asset, suggesting its use as a central hub for a light-rail system, and itegrating it as a transit point to downtown.



Capital Street and Rush alley are anomalies at present: They penetrate one of the railroad viaducts but dead end into the other one. They will be reconnected with the site beyond, and developed in a manner that allows for both pedestrian access into the site.


All of the streets running thru Franklinton occur in an East-West orientation, but due to the way the neighborhood has developed as an isolated pocket, these streets do not have any cross links at a pedestrian scale.

A major goal will be to connect Broad Street to the North to State Street at the South end of the site.