Public Participation in Project "O" Street
We’re shaping Project "O" Street with input from the people who know it best.
Upcoming Opportunities
Check back soon for details on future open houses, virtual town halls, and other ways to share your feedback. We’ll post dates, locations, and registration information here as they become available.
From the start, community voices have played a central role in shaping the vision, goals, and design of this project. Through open houses, surveys, and public meetings, we’ve gathered ideas from residents, business owners, workers, and visitors to downtown Lincoln. That feedback helped us define priorities, refine design concepts, and set the direction for the improvements underway.
We’re committed to keeping the conversation going. This page will be your source for upcoming engagement opportunities, recordings of past events, and materials that show how your input is helping shape the future of "O" Street.
Past Public Open Houses
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Third Public Open House
June 27, 2024
A third public open house was held June 27, 2024 from 9:00 am – 7:00 pm in the Union Bank & Trust lobby at 1248 “O” Street. At the open house, proposed streetscape designs for the downtown corridors were presented for public feedback prior to moving forward into final design. Construction phasing will be further defined in coming months.
Meeting Materials
Corridor Design Development
Building on feedback from the previous two public input meetings, proposed streetscape designs have been developed for each of the corridors. Click each of the links below to view the proposed designs for each corridor segment.
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Second Public Open House
September 12, 2022
A second public open house was held September 12, 2022 from 5:00-7:00 pm in the Union Bank & Trust lobby on “O” Street downtown. Based on positive feedback from the first open house, the big ideas became project goals and guiding design principles as the project team worked to refine the concepts.
Design Narrative
The design narrative begins to weave together the public insights and key findings into a vision for the corridors. How can a word like “cultivation” change the way we think about our city’s core creators and designing spaces for them to thrive? Understanding how Lincoln’s desire for something deeper than aesthetic changes translates to design gravity and a connected aesthetic when creating a more livable and inviting downtown.
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Corridor Look Books
Inspirational images influence the direction of the design with materials, plants and trees, art, furniture and lighting. Each street corridor is developing its own look and feel while remaining connected to the space around it.
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Urban Design Committee
Following the second open house, concepts were revised, based on feedback from the community, and presented to the City’s Urban Design Committee at a public hearing on October 4, 2022.
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First Public Open House
July 12, 2022
The project team hosted the first opportunity for public input at an open house meeting July 12, 2022 from 5:00-7:00pm at the Jayne Snyder Trails Center. At the meeting, the project team presented the
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initial survey results and key insights,
big ideas based on those insights, concept diagrams, and ideas for downtown icons and photo-worthy moments.
Big Ideas and Opportunities
Based on initial information gathered by the project team, big ideas and opportunities started to come together. They are summarized below - view them all in the Big Ideas and Opportunities document or each one separately below for a more detailed explanation of each idea.
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Background Information
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Survey Results – Spring 2022
The first step towards improvements to the downtown experience was to understand how people felt about the current downtown and see their vision for the future. Through surveys, interviews and street observations, the project team gained valuable insight into what’s working and not working downtown today, and where we should go from here.
This insight changed the project mindset from a revitalization effort to an opportunity for cultivation - and launched the team towards the creation of initial concepts for the heart of Lincoln, and see the future of downtown in a whole new way.
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Concept Diagrams
Keeping in mind those big ideas and opportunities, concept diagrams were developed to look at how different pieces of the streetscape like planters, trees, parking and open space could work together.
The concepts below show how streets in the project area could be organized, along with character images that show what downtown could aspire to be.
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Iconic Lincoln
The key insights suggest that there should be moments or locations downtown that reminds visitors where they are – something iconic and photo-worthy that represents Lincoln.
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