(In 2005, Green Corridor was successful in planning the Huron Church Road Pedestrian Overpass.)

If you’ve ever heard of “Greenlink”, there’s an even brighter creation on the horizon, one that’s been developing for many years now!  The Green Corridor is a project by the University of Windsor’s School of Visual Arts, in conjunction with many organizations in the area, to replace the cement desert that is the Huron Church corridor up to the Ambassador Bridge.

“The Green Corridor is a groundbreaking initiative for generating a green redevelopment of the international bridge corridor linking Canada to the United States. As a gateway to the City of Windsor, the corridor presents opportunities to involve local communities in transforming their environment. Traveling along its 2 km length, visitors will experience a new conception of the urban landscape – shifting from a concrete jungle to a ‘regenerative green zone’ where landscape is emphasized.” (Green Corridor Site)

At the very same site as Office Hours of Broken City Lab, the Green Corridor room contains several area-wide multiscale models of the proposed, and ongoing design process.  In the photo above, a park with trails accompanies the Ambassador Bridge, in the area of the ever-disputed Indian Rd. homes.  If you’re not familiar with the area, the houses on Indian Rd. are abandoned, with an unknown fate, the site of which a future border crossing may go.  This is only one of the Green Corridor’s plans – to include greenspace in the area, new bridge or non!

Extended plans by the Green Corridor group include Alternative Energy Systems for the corridor, including wind turbines to power such things as irrigation systems.

One of the scale models for the corridor.  Includes green roofing for the A&P/Canadian Tire plaza at University Mall, a solar farm in the cornfield behind Assumption Highschool…

Greenifying the rooftops of MacDonald and Laurier Halls at the University (which has already started)!

Advancement of the Naturalized Area near the University’s stadium.

And planting of indigenous species of plans, trees, etc. in areas called urban forests.

The Green Corridor website is VERY extensive, and includes lots of plans for the diesel-ified truck route through the heart of Windsor.  Check it out!