{"id":35781,"date":"2013-09-09T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=35781"},"modified":"2013-09-09T09:33:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:33:26","slug":"bold-changes-suggested-for-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/35781\/bold-changes-suggested-for-downtown","title":{"rendered":"Bold Changes Suggested For Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shared study has proposed bold and drastic changes to Bismarck&#8217;s downtown in an effort to create a solid community hub at the heart of the city. The total price tag to implement all of these suggestions would be an estimated $1 billion, including both private and public funding.<\/p>\n<p>Which of these suggestions hold merit for serious consideration? Do you have other ideas?\u00a0<a href=\"#comments\">Share your thoughts<\/a>\u00a0below or vote in the current poll.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Depot Plaza, which would replace the parking lot at Fiesta Villa into a park for hosting special events and public gatherings<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Condensing Main Avenue into one-lane traffic with a left turning lane to allow widening of the sidewalks<\/li>\n<li>Greatly expanding Kirkwood Mall towards Bowen Avenue to include additional retail, upper-level residential, and an atrium-style food court<\/li>\n<li>A downtown bus hub<\/li>\n<li>Constructing a pedestrian underpass at 5th Street<\/li>\n<li>Mehus Commons, which would be create green spaces and seating around the Bell Mehus<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating the downtown one-ways at Broadway, Thayer, 6th, and 4th<\/li>\n<li>Construction a parking ramp near the Civic Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/downtown-bismarck-study-proposes-dramatic-change\/article_1f8cfd34-164f-11e3-aa29-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/downtown-bismarck-study-proposes-dramatic-change\/article_1f8cfd34-164f-11e3-aa29-001a4bcf887a.html<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shared study has proposed bold and drastic changes to Bismarck&#8217;s downtown in an effort to create a solid community hub at the heart of the city. The total price tag to implement all of these suggestions would be an estimated $1 billion, including both private and public funding. Which of these suggestions hold merit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[537,1064],"class_list":["post-35781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-downtown-bismarck","tag-ticker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}