TACTICAL REVITALIZATION PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN ALBANY NY

Team Profile, Qualifications, and Experience
Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Minneapolis . MN . USA
Minneapolis Riverfront
Stoss
Landscape
Urbanism
team lead, urbanism,
landscape, planning
Client
Minneapolis Parks
Foundations +
Parks and Rec Board
Budget
N/A
Size
2200 acres
key personnel
Chris Reed,
design director
Scott Bishop,
project manager
Jill Allen,
planner
The project re-imagines 5.5 miles of Mississippi Riverfront
in Minneapolis, from the cultural riverfront in downtown
north to the city limit.
Stoss’s proposal is titled Streamlines; it’s about sheer,
unfiltered experience of direct contact with the river and
river life, in many ways and at multiple moments. And it’s
about weaving these experiences back into the everyday
city.
Streamlines is also a project about working ecologies,
ecological systems and dynamics put to work to clean, to
re-constitute this working riverfront, and to guide a longerterm
transformation of the city fabric.
But it is not about a single green line along the river.
Rather, this project is about multiple threads, multiple
strands; it evokes the stories and lives of the people who
live, work, and play by the river’s edge and have done so
for centuries. It builds from the rich histories and evolving
identities of the Mississippi River, the ecological, economic,
social lifeblood of the city, and of the continent. And it puts
in place a series of working and operational landscapes,
green infrastructures, and landscape-based urban fabrics
that will guide this transformation for the next generation of
city-dwellers, just as the Grand Rounds did for 20th-century
Minneapolis.