A decades-in-the-making plan to transform an 8.5-acre strip on Memorial Drive into a people-centered greenspace held the first in a series of public input meetings on Oct. 14 at the Oakland Cemetery Visitor’s center.

The Memorial Drive Greenway got major attention in 2001, when a breakthrough study identified the strip between Oakland Cemetery and the Downtown connector as linear greenspace. In 2016, Park Pride worked on a “vision plan” for the project.

But each vision has stalled, until the city announced $1 million in planning and design funds to help make the project a reality. About half comes from the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation Park Improvement Fund, and the other half comes from the City Council District 5 discretionary funds.

“The long-awaited development of Memori

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