The Gentilly Resilience District (GRD) is a combination of resilience programs and projects in the targeted area of Gentilly THAT ARE designed to reduce flood risk, slow land subsidence, improve energy reliability and spur neighborhood revitalization.
The Blue & Green Corridors project is being designed to combine rainfall management with symbiotic community benefits. Updates to the urban landscape along strategic ‘Corridors’ will create multimodal transportation connections and waterways that retain rainfall as well as public social spaces in the GRD!
Check out the recently installed signage along the Elysian Fields neutral ground at the intersections of Odin, Prentiss and Robert E. Lee to view the project vision and for more information!
YOU SPOKE – We Listened... Designing this project WITH the community - that feedback shaped the design scope. As we approach the conclusion of the design process, we hosted a 90 percent design virtual community update meeting on July 30, 2020.
Weren’t able to make!?... Click this link to view the presentation and /or the recorded meeting.