CitywideArchivedCompleteWell-planned and Livable Community
Happening Now The Comprehensive Facility Study is complete and provides information that will guide long range planning and investment in the City’s building infrastructure. The Study identifies the need for investment in the existing facilities to extend their useful life and to ensure occupant comfort and safety. The Study also evaluated the overall condition and usability [...]
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Burton StreetWestIn ProgressWell-planned and Livable Community
Asheville Parks & Recreation is collecting input from the Burton Street neighborhood on how to prioritize the spending of $500,000 on new, expanded, and/or updated recreation features in the park that surrounds Burton Street Community Center. This neighborhood investment money has specifically been earmarked for recreation infrastructure improvements in the park.
WestArchivedCompleteWell-planned and Livable Community
Neighborhoods: East West Asheville, Pisgah View Happening Now The new playground opened on August 15, 2024. View the City of Asheville’s active projects. For information about Asheville’s parks and recreation facilities, visit the Asheville Parks & Recreation page. Background As owner of Sulphur Springs Hotel (later changed [...]
DowntownArchivedCompleteWell-planned and Livable Community
The three elevators at the front of City Hall date to the original construction of this beautiful building, back in the 1920s, and the elevator mechanicals are well past their useful life. The proposed scope of work includes the replacement of two out of the three elevators, with the third elevator being preserved for historic purposes.
DowntownIn ProgressTransportation and Accessibility
Overview This project will implement improvements on sections of College Street and Patton Avenue in the core of Downtown Asheville with the goal of improving safety, accessibility, and equity for all users of the streets and users of the wider City transportation network. The project area specifically includes College Street between Spruce Street and Pritchard [...]
CitywideDowntownCompleteClean, Safe and Healthy EnvironmentWell-planned and Livable Community
The City is pursuing the purchase and installation of a prefabricated public restroom facility to be located in the public space on the College Street side of the Rankin Avenue parking garage.
NorthArchivedWell-planned and Livable Community
This facility will be home to Fire Station 13, a Police Substation, the relocated Emergency Operations Center, and a small community conference room.
DowntownSouthIn ProgressTransportation and Accessibility
The Greenway Connectors are on-road improvements in two project areas for bike and pedestrian safety and way-finding. The objective of this project is to connect greenways in the project area and provide safe passage for pedestrians and bicyclists from one greenway trailhead to another.
SouthArchivedClean, Safe and Healthy Environment
Recent improvements to Jake Rusher Park in south Asheville will be complete with the installation of playable art in the late spring of 2022.
WestIn ProgressTransportation and Accessibility
Overview This project includes the construction of approximately 1 mile of new 6-foot-wide sidewalk, including accessible ramps, crosswalks and drainage, along Johnston Boulevard from Patton Avenue to Johnston Elementary School. At the south end, the proposed sidewalk follows along the east side of Johnston Boulevard until reaching Rash Road, where a crosswalk allows the sidewalk to continue [...]
Improvements are currently underway at the Linwood Crump Shiloh Complex including the Community Center, the ballfield area, and park spaces throughout the Complex.
It is anticipated that the project will include a new entry sidewalk, new play equipment and surfacing, repaving the walking path, new park lighting, removal of the bathroom building, refreshed landscaping, improved ADA accessibility and fencing improvements.
WestArchivedClean, Safe and Healthy EnvironmentWell-planned and Livable Community
City of Asheville officials announced that the outdoor pool in Malvern Hills Park will not open this summer.
DowntownIn Progress
Overview In partnership with the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Buncombe County Government and the Asheville Tourists Baseball Club, the City of Asheville is spearheading a significant renovation project of McCormick Field. Bird’s eye view design rendering of McCormick Field capital improvements: View all renderings of the project. Happening Now Construction began in [...]
DowntownIn ProgressClean, Safe and Healthy Environment
Beginning in summer 2021, the project will include turf replacement in the stadium, stormwater repairs and upgrades and ADA access to existing stadium seating.
EastArchivedCompleteClean, Safe and Healthy Environment
The goal of this project will be to evaluate the existing stormwater system in order to develop engineered stormwater solutions and associated cost estimates to improve conditions throughout the Asheville Municipal Golf Course.
DowntownIn ProgressWell-planned and Livable Community
Happening Now The Municipal Building Capital Repairs & Restoration project is a structural repair project to demolish and replace the elevated slab floor of the Fire Station 1 apparatus bay. In preparation for repair and replacement of the Fire Station 1 apparatus bay slab, Asheville Fire Department (AFD) administrative staff will relocate to nearby leased office space. [...]
DowntownSouthIn ProgressTransportation and AccessibilityWell-planned and Livable Community
This greenway will feature a series of interpretive signs about the devastating impact of the razing of the Southside Community, a historically African-American community, due to urban renewal in the late 60s and early 70s.
EastIn ProgressTransportation and Accessibility
Overview This City will construct approximately 0.8 miles of new six-foot-wide sidewalk, including accessible ramps, crosswalks and drainage, along New Haw Creek Road from Beverly Road to Bell Road. Starting at Beverly Road, the sidewalk follows along the west side of New Haw Creek Road. Just north of Dogwood Grove the alignment shifts to the east [...]
CitywideArchivedCompleteClean, Safe and Healthy Environment
The City of Asheville and Buncombe County are contracting with M.B. Hayes to install solar photovoltaic power generating systems (“PV Systems”) at 45 sites throughout the county. Construction will occur between March 2021 - February 2022 at several local public agencies, including the City of Asheville, Buncombe County, AB Tech, Buncombe County Schools and Asheville City Schools. The four City sites are Burton Street Community Center, Shiloh Recreation Center, Fire Station 10 and Fire Station 11.
CitywideArchivedWell-planned and Livable Community
Outdoor sport court replacements with enhanced features such as new retaining walls, new fencing, new lighting, and improved ADA accessibility were completed at Murphy-Oakley Park (Park District: Southeast), Malvern Hills Park (Park District: West) and Montford Park (Park District: West Central).
DowntownIn ProgressClean, Safe and Healthy EnvironmentTransportation and Accessibility
Happening Now Accessibility Improvements phase begins September 2024 With the immediate priority repairs complete, the next phase focuses on accessibility improvements in each of the City-owned downtown parking garages. See City News post 9-16-2024. Estimated completion date for Accessibility phase: Late 2024 (function (c, i, t, y, z, e, n, x) { x = c.createElement(y), n = c.getElementsByTagName(y)[0]; x.async [...]
Funding from the bond referendum passed in 2016 was used to renovate and replace playgrounds at Herb Watts Park in Southside (Park District: South Central), Leah Chiles Park in Kenilworth (Park District: East Central), and the Augusta Barnett Playground in West Asheville (Park District: West).
WestArchivedWell-planned and Livable Community
Construction is complete on a new community picnic shelter and restroom facility at Richmond Hill Park. Key features of this project include a covered picnic shelter, winterized restrooms, an updated water fountain with bottle fillers and a pet dish, a new disc golf tee box at hole one, an expanded green space, and new walkways connecting park features.
WestIn ProgressClean, Safe and Healthy EnvironmentWell-planned and Livable Community
In order to expand recreation opportunities in West Asheville, improvements at Roger Farmer Park include court resurfacing and field conversion.
SouthIn Progress
Overview The purpose of this project is to replace a community-designed bus shelter in the Shiloh neighborhood near the intersection of Shiloh Road and Kent Street. Happening Now This project is currently in the design phase. Staff is working to engineer and estimate the cost of a bus shelter that is as close to the original design as [...]
DowntownArchivedWell-planned and Livable Community
Splasheville, the very popular interactive splash pad located in Pack Square Park went under a major renovation beginning in spring, 2021 including replacing the controls, wiring and plumbing and repairing or replacing many of the surface tiles and their supporting gridwork.
DowntownEastIn ProgressClean, Safe and Healthy EnvironmentTransportation and AccessibilityWell-planned and Livable Community
The City of Asheville’s Transportation Bond project will be engineering and constructing a section of the Swannanoa River Greenway.
SouthIn ProgressWell-planned and Livable Community
The City of Asheville purchased a 10.88 acre tract of land owned by Carolina Day School adjacent to their athletic facilities at 2351 Sweeten Creek Road for future natural park development.
Key features of the project included a new playground, expanded parking, new outdoor classroom, room to expand existing orchard, new outdoor table tennis, and new walkways connecting park features.
Happening Now Staff is working with engineers on the design of this project. Next Milestone: Design completion Background This project has been identified as a top priority due to safety concerns associated with the aging infrastructure aiming to improve safety and accessibility for all residents and visitors. The intersections included in the design are: Haywood Street & Page Avenue Haywood Street & [...]
WestCompleteTransportation and Accessibility
As part of the bond projects initiative, the City of Asheville is preparing to replace sidewalks on Vermont Avenue in West Asheville. This project focuses on pedestrian enhancements, including Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) improvements and crosswalk improvements.
Five PointsGrove Park/SunsetJackson ParkNorthNorwood ParkSpears-HenriettaIn ProgressWell-planned and Livable Community
The project will include rebuilding the tennis courts, resurfacing the basketball court, replacing the park bridge, improving the parking lots, landscaping, and installing new park lighting.
EastIn Progress
Happening Now This project is currently under construction. The Gateway to the Southern Appalachians exhibit advances key elements of the WNC Nature Center’s Vision for the Future including the planning, design, and implementation of new butterfly gardens and play areas, enlarged gift shop, and “gateway” entry experience. The project area covers the section of [...]
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