INDIANAPOLIS — The Board of Public Works today approved a contract for the design of a project which will rehabilitate portions of the Pleasant Run Greenway and extend the trail southwest to connections with the White River Trail and Troy Avenue. Paid for with funds from Mayor Joe Hogsett’s Circle City Forward initiative, the Board awarded the work to DB Engineering, LLC.
The scope of work includes designing the rehabilitation of trail segments along its current alignment adjacent to Pleasant Run between Ellenberger Park and Garfield Park on the city’s near southeast side. Designers will also plan out the extension of the trail westward from Garfield Park to the intersection of Bluff Road, where connections will be made both north to the White River Trail at Raymond Street and south to Troy Avenue.
This is the first contract approval of the nine trails and greenways projects funded by the third phase of Circle City Forward.
The Circle City Forward: Phase 3 investment will additionally fund the design or construction work for improvements to the Pogue’s Run Trail; a second phase of the Eagle Creek Trail; the Nickel Plate Trail; the Grassy Creek Trail; a Connector between the Monon Trail and the Pogue’s Run Trail; an Interurban Trail along Madison Avenue; a “road diet” and multimodal additions to E. 21st Street; and multimodal upgrades to W. 30th Street.