Adams Street Connector

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The City of Milwaukie has led an ongoing planning effort for South Downtown dating to 2008 with the adoption of the South Downtown Concept Plan.  As part of the implementation of that plan, the City is working with a design team to remake Adams Street between Main Street and 21st Ave in the South Downtown. This section of Adams Street is the key connection between Main Street and the Milwaukie Main Street light rail station now under construction. City Council directed staff to move forward with the project during its October 2, 2012, Work Session Meeting.

The Adams Street Connector is also part of the City’s adopted South Downtown Concept Plan, which envisions Milwaukie’s small south downtown area as a reinvigorated live/work district within an easy walk of the Willamette River, Kellogg Creek, downtown Milwaukie and every place outside Milwaukie via the MAX system. Once completed, the Adams Street Connector Project will link Milwaukie’s future downtown light rail station with Main Street and represent the first completed project of the South Downtown Concept Plan.

The project is funded through Metro with $450,000 in regional flexible transportation funds. Construction is underway and expected to be completed by the end of June 2015.

PROJECT SCHEDULE

Fall 2012: Conceptual design
Spring-Winter 2013: Construction plans and documents prepared
Winter 2014-2015: Minor redesign and final construction documents
May-July 2015: Construction of improvements, to be coordinated after public improvements being constructed by TriMet as part of the light rail project.