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!
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.
Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan
Safe streets and thriving neighborhoods should be available to everyone in Anchorage. If you’ve seen the sidewalks in winter or heard about recent collisions and pedestrian deaths, you know that all to often Fairview gets left behind. It’s time to change that. The Gambell-Ingra corridor serves as the connection between the Seward and Glenn Highways, but it is a dangerous, high-speed corridor. It does not have to be this way.
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. There will be many community projects in throughout 2023+ for this effort. See our press release here.
- Learn more about what the neighborhood wants to see in the future of the Fairview from our community workshop: Solving Scenarios for the Future of Fairview Summary Report (April 2023)
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:
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
Our Process
Image of a Fairview Greenway drawing (Feb 2024).
Image of a Fairview Greenway watercolor (Feb 2024)
Fairview Community Resources
Fairness For Fairview window sign 1/23
You can print this on a 8.5x11" paper to put in your window.
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!
