What do you love about Lawrenceville? What's sweet in the Strip District? How do you prefer to get from your favorite riverside picnic spot upriver to your favorite bike trail downriver?

You may have heard about the exciting planning that's happening along Pittsburgh's Allegheny Riverfront. This 6.45-mile stretch of urban riverfront starts Downtown at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and extends upriver through a lot of Pittsburgh's most exciting neighborhoods: the Strip District, Lawrenceville, Morningside, Highland Park and beyond. The potential is huge!

Formally called The Allegheny Riverfront Green Boulevard, this planning process is an initiative of the City of Pittsburgh that advances the Allegheny riverfront and its adjacent neighborhoods, defining and enhancing Pittsburgh's riverfront communities as top-notch places to live, work and visit. The planning process will lay the ground (pun intended) for an interconnected riverfront system of trails, parks, housing, retail, and transportation, while using landscape design and new technology to manage stormwater runoff and strengthen riverfront habitats.

We're pretty excited about the possibilities, and hope you are too whether you live in one of these communities or enjoy visiting them. Riverlife is proud to be a partner in the Allegheny Riverfront Green Boulevard with the City, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, and Allegheny Valley Railroad.

But we can't do much planning without your input! Your participation in this process is vital. Even better, it's extremely easy to help out.

Visit this nifty online interactive game and give it a try. The game shows a map of Pittsburgh's Allegheny riverfront neighborhoods and asks you to place markers in different areas to show how you use those neighborhoods. Most importantly, it asks what you'd like to see there in the future.



Maybe you've always thought that a waterfront dog park would be a perfect fit for your neighborhood. Maybe you're hankering for more restaurants near the water. Or perhaps you have intriguing ideas about creating bike trail connections or light rail stations.

We want to hear all about it! Go to the online game now and give us your feedback.

Thanks for taking part in the shaping of Pittsburgh's Allegheny riverfront. Oh, and stay connected to the project by "liking" the Facebook page for the Green Boulevard!