The city and the Downtown Austin Alliance plan to share project updates and initial renderings for possible caps, large deck plazas and stitches—widened bridges—that would go over the highway during a virtual open house scheduled to begin Dec. 15.
“The renderings are being shown to help the community envision the possibilities for the caps and stitches,” said Dea Crichton, a public information manager with the city’s corridor program office, in an email.
A previous report by the Urban Land Institute showed possible cap locations at East Caesar Chavez to East Fourth streets and East 11th to East 12th streets, as well as two caps between East Sixth Street and East Eighth Street.
The virtual open house will be online from Dec. 15 to Jan. 15 and will allow the community to provide feedback and suggestions. Crichton added that the city plans to continue to engage with the public throughout 2022.
According to the TxDOT website, it will present a preferred design alternative in the fall of 2022 for the stretch of I-35 that runs from Hwy. 290 to Hwy. 71.
More information is available about the city’s cap and stitch project on its website.
