![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As we continue to explore additional tools for navigating our website and resources, we hope that you will share your thoughts and feedback with us! We are excited to share our progress as we continue to build our resources for visual accessibility, promoting legibility and utility across our company. Beyond considerations to color, texture, and size, we aimed to create a graphic that would be legible to community members who speak/read English as a second language, relying on icons and color to convey the improvements without text. Recently when creating the concept plan for site improvements at a Minneapolis park (right), we used a simple, contrasting color palette overlaid with textures to help represent key project details. In recent months, we have been developing standards for visually accessible graphics that we hope to eventually incorporate office wide, on our website and other platforms so that all audiences can access our designs and projects. We see this as a valuable opportunity to create materials that are engaging and equitable, allowing all users to visualize the projects we develop and design. To learn more about the Lower Phalen Creek Project, Phalen Creek’s history, and ongoing daylighting efforts, visit → Read MoreĪt HTPO, we are fortunate to work with a variety of clients on projects that reach an even wider range of user groups, ranging from stakeholders to diverse communities and individuals. We look forward to the advancement of this project and its potential to support community connections to the historic landscapes and waterways of Saint Paul. We would like to thank our primary client, Capitol Region Watershed District, as well as the Lower Phalen Creek Project, Rush Line BRT, Ramsey County, and the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District for their guidance and input as we navigated this unique scope. After assessing the overlap of adjacent private property, commercial and industrial lots, and public right of ways, our team developed recommendations for buried pipe alignments, a daylighted creek channel, stormwater BMP design, locations for programmable areas and community gathering spaces, and wayfinding along the Bruce Vento Trail. Over the course of the project, we attended virtual meetings with project partners and stakeholders, conducted virtual work sessions, and held meetings to progress our study. Our Civil Engineering and Landscape Architecture team was tasked with providing a detailed feasibility study based on previously gathered data, community input, and in conjunction with Rush Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) plans for improvements to the Phalen Boulevard transit corridor. ![]() Over the last year HTPO has had the opportunity to work with Capitol Region Watershed District in collaboration with the Lower Phalen Creek Project as they pursue plans to daylight the historic path of Phalen Creek in St. We look forward to seeing the finished project! HTPO worked with utility companies, the City of Eden Prairie, area businesses, and the contractor to ensure utilities were moved and adjusted when needed to allow for a smooth construction process. With this being a heavy commercial district, there are many underground utilities that lay within the construction limits. Work is well underway with the addition of ADA pedestrian ramps at intersections, new and improved crossings, and driveway aprons for private businesses along the road. Our safety coordinator and inspector, Mitch Joyce, has been onsite since construction began in mid-July and tracking the progress. HTPO served as the consultant for the Civil Engineering on this project, producing the construction documentation and managing bid administration for the addition of a 5’ sidewalk and boulevard and driveway reconstructions throughout the corridor. Martin Drive Sidewalk in Eden Prairie has broken ground for construction. ![]()
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