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Gambell Street
Future vision for Gambell Street, located in the Fairview neighborhood of Anchorage, AK
The Fairview community is working to transform Gambell Street. What was once a thriving main street for the Fairview neighborhood, the city of Anchorage converted it into the highway couplet we have today. For more information, visit the Reconnecting Fairview Project Library. Our long-term vision for Gambell Street is:
Gambell Street: Welcoming Main Street
- A vibrant, walkable main street that welcomes residents, workers, and visitors with pedestrian-friendly design, on-street parking, transit, mixed-use properties, and winter city amenities that work year-round.
Date
Document
Description
July 2026
2026 Fairview Block Party outreach posters
These posters are designed for public input during Summer 2026 public outreach events. The images show a phased approach for road design with a near-term (within 5 years), mid-term (by 2040), and long-term (beyond 2040) scenario approach to each street cross-section. The designs build on each step toward a long-term vision for each roadway.
For the long-term, the approaches focus on these areas after a Fairview Bypass is constructed:
- Gambell: Offer 2-way traffic to build a “Main Street” with flexible space for businesses, on-street parking, and/or transit facilities.
- Hyder: Emphasize safety, community art and storytelling, and catalyze investment by balancing connectivity and subarctic design.
- Ingra: Reduced traffic allows for 2-way traffic and reallocating space for pedestrians.
October 2025
Images of renderings of a Main Street on Gambell St. & 14th Ave. in Summer, Winter, and Darkness. This includes: one lane in each direction, summer parking/winter snow storage, shared lanes with bicycles, marked crosswalks, and a chicane for parking.
DRAFT Conceptual design for Gambell Street from October 2025.
Gambell as a future Main Street
We see Gamble as a vibrant Main Street that balances modal priorities to encourage more active transportation and invites people to spend time in Fairview. The future Gamble Street would encourage slower vehicle speeds, provide ample pedestrian space, and offer frequent safe crossing opportunities to achieve this vision. Some of the key design elements for Gamble St. include:
Gambell Street as a vibrant main street that prioritizes active modes and invites people to spend time in Fairview.
- Gambell Main Street with one lane in each direction
- Summer parking lanes on both sides that serve as snow storage in winter
- Shared use travel lanes with bicycles
- Marked crosswalks throughout corridor
- Lateral shift between 10th and 12th avenues at bottom of hill
2024 Anchorage Design Week: Gambell Main Street
Video of a Lego workshop from 2024 Anchorage Design Week. Led by local design expert Peter Briggs (Corvus Design) to guide folks to share and articulate ideas for how open space and the built environment can support the residents of Fairview and greater Anchorage.
The results of this creative symposium are intended to represent ideas describing greenway connections and economic development targets to advance the East Downtown and the Fairview neighborhood while focusing on a core area of the proposed highway connection project – Gambell Main Street .
Here is our Reconnecting Fairview Symposium Summary, detailing the Lego cross sections for Gambell Street and themes from each map project!