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What We Do
More than A Park
Throughout our community-led process, it became clear that the Bridge Park had the potential to be more than a park. A key goal of the Bridge Park is to serve as an anchor for equitable and inclusive economic growth. To achieve this goal, the Bridge Park staff worked with community stakeholders to create an Equitable Development Plan in 2015, that was updated 2018 & 2024.
Community Resources
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Upcoming Events
Taste of the Harvest
Join us for a beautiful evening at THEARC to celebrate the harvest from the Bridge Park Plots and THEARC Farms. Dine with your family and neighbors at the king’s table. Experience tastings from our urban farms that will compliment any meal that you bring yourself. The event is FREE but please RSVP so that we can prepare for your presence.
Housing Resource Expo
The 11th Street Bridge Park is dedicated to enhancing safe, affordable, and accessible housing for East of the River residents. Join us to hear from our partners and discover available resources.
Bridge. Connect. Engage.
Our Goals
Economic
Serve as an anchor for inclusive economic opportunity.
Social
Reconnect the neighborhoods on both sides of the water.
Environment
Re-engage the community with the water.
Health
Improve public health disparities.
Latest News…
11th Street Bridge Park Bridging Divides: Transforming Washington D.C
, 11th Street Bridge ParkWhere the echoes of history and the pulse of modern life intersect in Washington, D.C., a groundbreaking project is taking shape: the 11th Street Bridge Park. Led by Scott Kratz, […]
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Creative Placemaking: Top 3 Best Practices to Optimize Value
, 11th Street Bridge ParkNew studies on urban planning continue to uphold ULI’s 2017 list of 10 best practices in creative placemaking. They underscore three of those practices as essential to optimizing the value of real […]
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Wells Fargo Gives $500K to D.C.-Area Groups
, 11th Street Bridge Park**FILE** Wells Fargo in downtown Washington, D.C. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA) In recognition of National Homeownership Month in June, the Wells Fargo Foundation announced that it has joined forces with five D.C.-area nonprofits as […]
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Revitalize Parks to Strengthen Democracy
, 11th Street Bridge ParkThe Trust for Public Land developed a framework to build community power through the creation and stewardship of green spaces. Our work demonstrates the power of parks to enrich democracy. […]
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How D.C.’s version of the High Line
, 11th Street Bridge ParkThe 11th Street Bridge Park engaged community members from the outset, working to understand what residents needed and find ways to limit displacement. - Fast Company
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Five-City Equitable Development Workforce Pilot
, 11th Street Bridge ParkIn 2021, 11th Street Bridge Park (Bridge Park) in Washington, DC, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the JPB Foundation to establish a “five-city pilot” to expand its highly regarded workforce-development approach to similar equity-focused parks around the country....
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11th Street Bridge Parks’ Scott Kratz on Community Engagement with Public Projects
, 11th Street Bridge ParkOne of these projects, within the network of the highly successful High Line project in New York, is the 11th Street Bridge Park in DC. Scott Kratz, Director of Building Bridges Across the River, spoke about the project on a...
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Learning from 11th Street Bridge Park’s Affordable Housing Strategies
, 11th Street Bridge ParkThe Bridge Park has helped found job programs that have already placed over 150 residents in construction jobs, who will be the first to actually build the park. It has also supported people’s training on culinary skills and technical assistance...
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River East Design Center created The Bridge Spot, a small business kiosk
, 11th Street Bridge ParkCommunity Forklift’s Community Building Blocks (CBB) program provided free paint from our reuse warehouse to aid in the construction of The Bridge Spot mobile kiosk. The kiosk is designed to support a group of small businesses from east of the...
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Data Sharing Can Better Allow Partner Networks to Meet Equity Goals
, 11th Street Bridge ParkFrom landscape design to economic development, equitable public space and infrastructure-reuse projects must interact with many different domains to fulfill their missions. But this web of partnerships and stakeholders also necessitates growing data collection and analysis responsibilities to measure performance...
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Blog
Latest stories from 11th Street Bridge Park
Oramenta Newsome Fellowship
The Oramenta Newsome Fellowship allowed me to understand and contribute to the various layers and methods of community development. I first learned about the significance of collaboration in this field, […]
Toronto
Toronto City Hall At the 11th Street Bridge Park, we believe that the answers are already in the community – we just need to listen. So when I was recently […]
June 2024 Workout Series!
Anacostia Park plays a significant role in providing a safe space for the people of DC and beyond to come together and engage in exercise, swimming, walking, running, fishing, and […]
