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City planning staff present downtown redevelopment visualization, including Opera House Square expansion concepts
Summary
Planning Services Manager Mark Lawrence presented a 2024 downtown visualization created with local partners, outlining large catalyst sites, smaller infill opportunities and green-space enhancements including a conceptual expansion of Opera House Square that would require acquisitions and rerouting of truck traffic.
Planning Services Manager Mark Lawrence presented the City of Oshkosh’s 2024 downtown redevelopment visualization plan to the Advisory Parks Board, describing a collaborative effort with the community foundation, Chamber, GoEDC, Discover Oshkosh and the business improvement district to re-envision core blocks of downtown.
Lawrence said the visualization builds on earlier efforts — including the February downtown action plan and the 2017 Imagine Oshkosh advisory work — and is intended as a marketing and engagement tool to show developers and the public what reinvestment could look like. “Again, my name is Mark Lawrence. I’m the Planning Services Manager for the city,” he told the board as he introduced the presentation.
The plan breaks potential interventions into three categories: large catalyst…
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