Reconnecting Fairview
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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!
Anchorage Transportation Fair: Tues, April 15
Jon us at the Anchorage Transportation Fair!
- Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 between 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM
- Alaska Airlines Center, Auxiliary Gym, 3550 Providence Drive, Anchorage
- Snacks available! (While supplies last)
- Free event
Fairview Neighborhood Survey
“Fairness for Fairview” is a community-led effort to heal the Gambell-Ingra Corridor by identifying opportunities for neighborhood revitalization, improved safety, increased economic opportunity, and other strategies that foster community identity and well-being.
This survey is a way for you to inform safety, accessibility, mobility, and other improvements you recommend throughout Fairview. Data collected is anonymous and will inform future Reconnecting Fairview efforts. We thank you for your time and feedback!

Anchorage Design Week: Feb 19-23, 2025
Check out some highlights from Anchorage Design Week. With our focus on Fairview, here’s a recap of our 2025 and 2024 Anchorage Design Week projects and activities.
Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan
On February 28th, 2023, the Fairview community was awarded a Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. This is the first-ever Federal program to reconnect communities previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.
In late 2024, NeighborWorks Alaska and the Fairview Community Council kicked-off the formal planning process to create a Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan. With the consultant team, Arup, we are moving forward to create and finalize a plan by Fall 2026.
Contacts
NeighborWorks Alaska
- Lindsey Hajduk, Director of Community Engagement & External Affairs, [email protected]
Arup
- Kate White, Principal in Charge, [email protected]
- Carleton Wong, Project Manager, [email protected]
- Elizabeth Owen, Deputy Project Manager, [email protected]
Purpose of Reconnecting Fairview
The Fairview community seeks heal the Gambell-Ingra Corridor by revitalizing and improving safety within it through economic analysis, active transportation traffic modeling, responsive greenway design and robust public engagement that includes civic dialogue and visualization processes.
Anchorage, AK, is a sub-arctic community located on the eastern side of Anchorage’s urban core. The Fairview neighborhood is divided by a high-speed highway couplet, including four north-bound lanes on Ingra Street and four south-bound lanes on Gambell Street. In 1965, the city explicitly acknowledged the highway connection in Fairview would “cut the neighborhood and create an island two blocks wide by ten blocks long.” The couplet has led to decades of disinvestment, safety, and health impacts in Fairview.
The project is led by NeighborWorks Alaska (NWAK) in partnership with the Fairview Community Council (FVCC), focused on community-led solutions.
You can watch a short clip on this here:
Our Process



Image of a Fairview Greenway drawing (Feb 2024).

Image of a Fairview Greenway watercolor (Feb 2024)
Fairview Resources
- Fairview Planning Documents
- Fairview Business Association Gambell Street Redevelopment and Implementation Plan July 2013
- Fairview Community Council (FVCC) Fairview Neighborhood Plan Sept. 2014
- Fairview Design Initiative (2019)
- FVCC Form-Based Code Overlay Zone Winter City Guidelines March 2019
- FVCC Fairview Color Palette (March 2019)
- Fairview Design Initiative Fairview Design Initiative presentation
- Fairview Design Initiative Visual Preference Survey Results
- FVCC Form-Based Code Overlay Zone March 2019
- Fairview Greenway report Closing the Loop
- Fairview Fabrication Lab Fab Lab Presentation
- Fairview Innovation Area White Paper Draft February 2021
- FVCC Reconnecting Fairview Resolutions
- Fairview Community Council (FVCC) Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Resolution 2022-01
- Assembly Resolution supporting Reconnecting Fairview 2022.11.09 Assembly Resolution AR 2022-348
- FVCC Resolution PEL Resolution 2024-05
- Reconnecting Fairview Workshops
- Fairview Workshop: Solving Scenarios for the Future of Fairview Summary Report (April 2023)
- Fairview Workshop: Gambell Main Street Workshop Summary (September 2024)
- Fairview Walk Audits
- AARP Alaska – Anchorage Pilot Walk Audit (August 2022)
- AARP Alaska & Anchorage Design Week – Fairview Winter Walk Audit (February 2024)
- Additional Resources
- Air Quality: Fairview Air Quality Monitoring Report (September 2023)
- Fairview Community Gardens Fairview Gardens Site Designs (2024)
- The AnchorED City Podcast: Not Just Passing Through Fairview (6/10/24)
Fairview Community Resources
Videos: Voices of Fairview
Watch these videos highlighting our neighbors!
Theory of Change
How our plan supports the vision for a "Healed and Vibrant Fairview."
The AnchorED City Podcast 6/10/24
Listen here!
The Empty Office Podcast 1/26/25
Listen here!
Seward to Glenn Highway Connection: Gambell & Ingra Streets

What is a PEL?
The Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT) is leading a Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study for the highway connection for the Seward and Glenn highways, including 5th & 6th Avenue and Gambell & Ingra Streets.
“PEL studies are a collaborative and integrated approach to transportation decision making that considers environmental, community, and economic goals and impacts.”
For more information on the highway study, visit: www.sewardglennconnection.com