A report released Tuesday addresses previously unanswered questions regarding the look, environmental impact, time frame and cost of a project that aims to re-create a portion of the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed tree-lined Humboldt Parkway above a tunnel covering a section of the Kensington Expressway.
The new information is contained in the Draft Design Report produced by the State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. Details for the Kensington Expressway, also known as Route 33, will be shared at two public meetings later this month.
The project seeks to reconnect neighborhoods severed by the highway that created an east-west divide when it was built in the 1950s and 1960s, a period when Black residents moved into the area in large numbers and white residents left.
The $921.8 million project calls for 11 acres of green space above a tunnel that extends from Dodge Street, near Martin Luther King Jr. Park from the south, to Sidney Street to the north, a distance of four-fifths of a mile.
The project limits extend further, from Best Street to the south to approximately Northland Avenue to the north.
A 9-mile radius of 25 streets would be redone, bordered by High and Genesee streets to the south, Northland Avenue to the north, Wohlers Avenue and Johnson Street to the west and Fillmore Avenue to the east.
Construction is expected to start in 2024 and take three to four years, the report said.
Among report highlights:
• There will be four rows of trees across the median,…
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