Great Streets Initiative

Burlington Main Street Great Streets Public Forum 03/28/2025

From the organizers:

Burlington downtown businesses wants to know: what do you think of the Main Street Construction and Closure?

We would like you and everyone you know to join us for an open forum with DPW and the Mayor at Burlington City Hall.

Burlington businesses, friends and neighbors support the Main Street: Great Streets project’s goal of making a better Main Street and a better Burlington, but the current status of the project is hurting downtown and the people in it.

We are excited to hear answers to these big questions:

Why can’t we have one-way access on Main Street to allow us into our city?
Why is this project 10 months behind schedule?
Why has Main Street been closed for over a year when it was meant to be a few months?
Why was no meaningful support offered by the city after these multiple delays?
What measures are being taken to minimize the impact of future work since the project continues for another 2 years? (projected till November 2026)

For over a year the city has asked us all to be patient and we have been very, very patient. But now we need to work on new solutions and find compromises to make Burlington better NOW, not just in 2 years.

Thank you to all who have joined us and all who will. If you cannot make it please consider writing your City Councilor or the Mayor with your thoughts.

For more information visit: https://greatstreetsbtv.com/

Main Street Great Streets Project Meeting 02/15/2024

From the City of Burlington:

Through this initiative, we advance several key projects envisioned by plans such as Imagine City Hall Park, planBTV Downtown and Waterfront Master Plan, and the Transportation Plan.

For more information visit: https://greatstreetsbtv.com/

Burlington Mayor's Press Conference: Kick-off Construction of the Great Streets Main Streets Project 02/05/2024

From the Mayor's Office:

Mayor Miro Weinberger and community partners gather to announce and kick-off the start of construction on the transformative Great Streets Main Street Project. Joined by Chapin Spencer, Director of Department of Public Works, City of Burlington; Hannah King, Ward 8 Burlington City Councilor; Peggy O’Neill-Vivanco, Chair of the Public Works Commission; and Jay Wahl, Executive Director, The Flynn.

For more information visit: https://greatstreetsbtv.com/main-st-construction

Public Informational Meeting: Main Street Concepts 04/28/2022

This is a public meeting to present design concepts for the Burlington's Main Street revitalization project.

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Public Informational Meeting: Great Streets – Main Street 02/01/2022

This is a public meeting to present information on the City’s Great Streets – Main Street project: an effort that seeks to redevelop Main Street between Battery Street and South Union Street.

Great Streets BTV - City Hall Park Update 08/14/2017

The Great Streets Initiative is a culmination of many years of planning and project development, including the public vote in March of 2015 to use the City’s downtown TIF district to make new investments in the downtown’s public infrastructure, to ensure that Burlington residents have a downtown that is a vibrant, walkable and sustainable urban center. Through this initiative, we’ll advance several key projects envisioned by plans such as Imagine City Hall Park, planBTV Downtown and Waterfront Master Plan, and the Transportation Plan.

For more information visit: http://greatstreetsbtv.com

Great Streets BTV 11/16/2016

The Great Streets initiative's premise is to work with citizens, stakeholders, and officials of Burlington on three interrelated efforts:

1. Downtown Street Standards: The goal of this effort is to create a palette of urban elements that are beautiful, practical, affordable, sustainable, and appropriate for downtown Burlington from Pearl to Maple (north to south) and from Union to Battery (east to west).

2. Main Street / St. Paul Street: This initiative will apply those standards to the redesign of six segments of Main Street from Union to Battery and two segments of St. Paul Street from Main to Maple. This effort will culminate in the construction of two key segments of Main Street between Pine and Church.

3. City Hall Park: This project continues the effort to reconstruct one of the oldest and most significant public spaces in Burlington. The work here starts with the already completed schematic design from the four-month public engagement process, Imagine City Hall Park, completed in 2011, and ends with the much anticipated reconstruction.

For more information visit: http://greatstreetsbtv.com

Great Streets BTV 09/14/2016

The Great Streets initiative's premise is to work with citizens, stakeholders, and officials of Burlington on three interrelated efforts:

For more information visit: http://greatstreetsbtv.com

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