Fairview: Where people make the difference
Make your voice heard!
Residents in the neighborhood of Fairview in Anchorage, AK,
are working to empower their neighbors to transform their
community. Join us today!
Get Involved!
Community residents are invited to participate in team building, workshops, networking, and neighborhood projects to make Fairview a safer, more connected, and vibrant neighborhood.
What's New!
Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan
The Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska are working to reimagine the Gambell-Ingra Corridor through equitable transportation planning and neighborhood revitalization. Learn more and get involved as we create a new Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan! This work is supported by a federal Reconnecting Communities grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
If you live or work in the Fairview neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, or care about its future–join us! Visit our Reconnecting Fairview page for more details.
Fairview Community Gardens
Community gardens are where the residents of a community are empowered to design, build, and maintain spaces in the community. These gardens will be built by the community; they will be subdivided into plots where gardeners can grow anything they choose, organically of course!
Community Gardens grow with your help. Learn more to get involved.
Fairness for Fairview
Fairness for Fairview is a community-led neighborhood initiative based in Anchorage, Alaska.
Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska lead the initiative to Reconnect Fairview. We’re building partnerships across Anchorage, so hope you join us to get involved!
Reconnecting Fairview
We’re working to Reconnect Fairview by revitalizing and improving safety in the Gambell-Ingra Corridor. Join our community-led planning process, which will dig into economic analysis, multi-modal traffic modeling, design, and public involvement.
Activating a Fairview Action Team
Training local residents to organize neighbors to create the future they want to see, learning about and engaging in community building, and more. Join our community-led effort and become part of our Fairview Action Team.
Fairness for Fairview Projects
We’re creating and working on projects to heal the Gambell-Ingra corridor, including community events, air quality monitoring, and more. Check out our latest projects and get involved to make a safer, more connected neighborhood.
About Fairness for Fairview
A Community-Led Neighborhood Initiative in Anchorage, Alaska
Fairview is more than a neighborhood on a map. It is a community shaped by history, held together by its people, and ready to define its own future. Fairness for Fairview is a community-led neighborhood initiative working to make that future more connected, more equitable, and more reflective of the people who call Fairview home.
This initiative is a partnership between the Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska, two Anchorage organizations committed to community-driven planning and neighborhood revitalization in Fairview. Together, we work to ensure that Fairview residents have a voice in the decisions that shape their daily lives.
Our Neighborhood, Our Story
The Fairview neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, sits on the eastern edge of the city’s urban core and has carried the burden of a difficult history. In 1965, city planners acknowledged that a high-speed highway connection through Fairview would “cut the neighborhood and create an island two blocks wide by ten blocks long.” That prediction came true.
For decades, the Gambell-Ingra highway couplet, four north-bound lanes on Ingra Street and four south-bound lanes on Gambell Street, has divided Fairview. The results have been real: disinvestment, safety concerns, air quality challenges, and reduced economic opportunity.
Fairness for Fairview exists because Fairview residents deserve better and are the ones best positioned to lead the way forward.
Reconnecting Fairview: Our Signature Initiative
At the heart of our work is the Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan, a community-centered planning effort to reimagine the Gambell-Ingra corridor. In February 2023, the Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska were awarded a $537,660 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program, matched by the Municipality of Anchorage. This investment supports community-led solutions to restore neighborhood connectivity and improve safety, access, and economic opportunity along the corridor.
The Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan includes:
- Economic analysis to understand the corridor’s impact on local businesses and residents
- Multi-modal transportation planning that includes pedestrian, bicycle, and transit users
- Greenway design options, including the Fairview Greenway concept
- Robust public engagement that meets residents where they are
This work connects directly to a broader Alaska Department of Transportation Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study for the Seward-to-Glenn Highway connection, including 5th & 6th Avenue and Gambell & Ingra Streets. Learn more at sewardglennconnection.com.
Our goal is not just to improve a corridor. It is to make Fairview whole.
What We're Working Toward
Every project, every event, and every conversation we host is connected to a shared set of community goals:
Make Fairview whole. Correct the wrongs of disinvestment, unsafe roads, and environmental harm that have affected this neighborhood for generations.
Revitalize Fairview. Strengthen economic conditions, improve health outcomes, and advocate for a livable, thriving community in Alaska’s largest city.
Shape our future. Embed Fairview’s community vision in long-range plans like the Anchorage 2040 Land Use Plan and the Fairview Neighborhood Plan.
Reduce the highway’s impact. Explore innovative options: road diets, greenways, redesigned intersections — that give Fairview its streets back.
Safety for all. Design a neighborhood where pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and drivers can move safely.
Better public engagement. Reach residents of all backgrounds, in all languages, in all corners of Fairview.
Contact Us
This initiative is a partnership between Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska. The Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska, the two Anchorage organizations that lead this initiative, work alongside planning partners and local stakeholders to guide neighborhood projects and ensure Fairview residents have representation in municipal planning conversations. These partnerships strengthen the initiative and create opportunities for meaningful collaboration. And most importantly, we work with Fairview residents themselves!
Questions? Feel free to connect with the Fairview Community Council at president (at) fairviewcommunity (dot) com, or Lindsey Hajduk at lhajduk (at) nwalaska (dot) org