Flagler Avenue to become a ‘festival street’ on Southbank

Design work is nearing completion on a project to remake a stretch of Flagler Avenue on the Downtown Southbank into a pedestrian-friendly “festival street” designed to accommodate special events. 

Representatives of the GAI Consultants engineering and design firm, which contracted with the Downtown Investment Authority to design the project, told the Downtown Development Review Board last week that they expected to complete their work on the estimated $2.5 million project in January. If all goes as planned, they said, groundbreaking would take place in the summer of 2027.  

The project will involve adding retractable bollards at each end of Flagler Avenue between Prudential Drive and Riverplace Boulevard, plus streetscape improvements and string-type lighting in that stretch. 

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