Public Park and Pedestrian Bridge

As part of a Jewelry District Master Plan, a new park was conceived on the western side of the Providence River — an open space that retains the memory of the former location of the I-195 highway. Following the idea of a RISD student to use the foundations of the former highway overpass in the riverbed as the substructure for a pedestrian bridge, a competition was held to identify a firm to design the bridge, subsequently leading to savings in demolition costs, while keeping a visible sign of the former highway location.