Sara Lum - Trugs

TRUGS

Omaha, Nebraska
Emerging Terrain
Role: Construction Team
Built, Temporary

Trugs were brought to life through a public-private partnership between community stakeholders in the Park East and Columbus Park neighborhoods, the City of Omaha, Emerging Terrain, and the Greater Omaha Chamber. The first season in 2012 engaged business owners along Leavenworth Street between Interstate 480 and 24th Street to host the uniquely designed planter, platform, seating units in parallel parking spaces. Trugs expanded pedestrian public space, hosted community events throughout the summer, provided a mini lending library for the neighborhood, encouraged the City to re-stripe the corridor from three traffic lanes to two traffic lanes and a bike lane, and cast a vision for a more accommodating street. The project became a prototype for incrementally reconsidering the future of urban streets.

Photo by Bryce Bridges

Photo by Jaim Hackbart

Photo by Bryce Bridges

Construction Photo

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