The Eagle Street Gateway project, which broke ground in March of this year in Naperville, is finished and open to the public.
Accessibility improved by Eagle Street Gateway
A key goal of the project was to improve accessibility between the upper and lower paths along the Riverwalk.
“We did add an improvement a number of years ago down near Main Street that let people do that, but it was just the one access. So now they’ll be able to come in down Main Street and travel along the river and be able to come back up the gateway without having to come back the way they came,” said Andy Hynes, deputy director of the City of Naperville’s Transportation, Engineering, and Development Department. Hynes also serves on the Riverwalk Commission.
The team sought to keep some of the Riverwalk’s historic features in the new layout…