Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition set for Jan. 27

From KARE 11:

The Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition challenges four landscape and urban design teams to each create an over-arching vision for five and half miles of Mississippi riverfront from the Stone Arch Bridge to the city's northern limits.

Built on the Park Board's award-winning 2,000 master plan and addressing current demands as well as future needs, the winning design will be a comprehensive, integrated vision for the Upper Riverfront that establishes parks as the engine for economic development, transforms the river into a connector rather than a barrier between east and west banks, and refocuses Minneapolis toward what is one of the three great rivers of the world.

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