East Campbell Avenue Portals Project (Finalist)

In Campbell, the East Campbell Avenue Portals Project transformed East Campbell Avenue under the Highway 17 overcrossing from a dark, uncomfortable pathway with narrow sidewalks and bike lanes to a welcoming multimodal facility with widened bicycle lanes and separated pedestrian portals on both sides of Campbell Avenue. The project removed curtain abutment walls and installed new retaining and tie-back walls to provide 26-foot wide portal openings behind existing abutment walls. Benefits to the general public include better bicycle and pedestrian connectivity for residents through the underpass; public art, terraced landscaping, and ornate columns; more comfortable walkway separated from moving traffic and running between the Historic Downtown/Downtown Campbell Light Rail Station and the PruneYard Shopping Center and residences on Union Avenue and east of Bascom Avenue. The Portals Project has opened up a new, functional, and beautiful entrance to Downtown Campbell.