Lick Run Greenway Rendering Map. Click for full image.
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Construction of the $90 million Lick Run Greenway in the Cincinnati neighborhood of South Fairmount began in July 2017 and should be completed by fall 2019. The project is expected to be functional (managing stormwater) by the Consent Decree deadline of December 31, 2018, but the urban stream, pathways and landscaping will not be in place until fall 2019.
The project extends for 1.5 miles, from old Queen City Avenue at the Queen City Bypass to the banks of the Mill Creek. Highlights of the project include the following:
- Special wetland and rain gardens along old Queen City Avenue.
- Headwaters park east of White Street with off-street parking. This area celebrates the start of the creek.
- A one-mile-long meandering creek that extends from the headwaters park to a pond east of Harrison Avenue. Includes walking paths, extensive landscaping, lighting, security railing, and five vehicle bridges at Harrison Avenue, Grand Avenue, Quebec Road, Van Hart and Kebler.
- An improved recreational area, including a new playground and basketball courts, concrete stage area, pedestrian bridge over the stream and off-street parking. The existing water sprayground stays in place and one of the two existing shelters will be relocated.
- 2-acre pond east of Harrison Avenue. Water will recirculate from the pond to the headwaters area to keep the stream flowing.
- A 1.5-mile-long underground stormwater conveyance box constructed beneath the entire system to handle large rainstorms.
- Stormwater planters along south side of Queen City Avenue.
- New storm sewers and relocated combined sewers in and around the Greenway.
