Reconnecting Fairview
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!
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!
Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan
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.
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OUR HISTORY
Anchorage’s 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.
OUR COMMUNITY
Community members have been organizing various events, workshops, and neighborhood projects to make Fairview a safer, more connected, and vibrant neighborhood. Join us and meet your neighbors!
OUR OPPORTUNITY
In February 2023, the Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska were awarded a $537,660 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program, matched by the Municipality of Anchorage. The program provides grants towards projects that restore community connectivity through the removal, retrofit, mitigation, or replacement of transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity and impact mobility, access, or economic development due to high speeds, grade separations, or other design factors.
OUR GOALS
- Make Fairview whole. Correct the wrongs that have been inflicted on Fairview, like disinvestment, unsafe roads, pollution, and more.
- Revitalize Fairview. Improve economic conditions, strengthen community resilience, improve health outcomes, and advocate for a more livable Winter City.
- Shape our future. Enact Fairview’s community vision in the 2040 Land Use Plan & Fairview Neighborhood Plan.
- Reduce the highway’s impact. Be innovative with options, like the Fairview Greenway, road diets, and more.
- Safety for all. Include pedestrian, bicycle, and transit users at every step.
- Better public engagement. Improve outreach by working with residents of all backgrounds. Meet us where we’re at.
Image of a Fairview Greenway drawing (Feb 2024).
Image of a Fairview Greenway watercolor (Feb 2024)
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
