Part of wider plans to revitalize Denver's River North neighborhood, a planned pedestrian and bike bridge will call on the services of Bridges to Prosperity. The nonprofit has constructed 270 small bridges across the world.

Across Africa and Central and South America, Jon Murray writes, "hundreds of suspension bridges built by a Denver-based nonprofit group have connected rural communities to health care, schools and jobs — serving as literal lifelines across rivers, especially during flood season."
In its first U.S. project, Bridges for Prosperity has teamed up with the city and a local developer, among others, to construct a pedestrian and bike crossing over the South Platte River. "It's tentatively called the Art Bridge. The nonprofit's involvement came about as Denver-based Zeppelin Development and community advocates looked for creative ways to speed up the building of a long-sought pedestrian and bike bridge across the Platte, roughly aligned with 35th Street."
Murray writes that the Art Bridge will likely cost "less than half what a city-planned steel-heavy pedestrian bridge typically would cost," and the goal is to begin construction in spring of 2018. Despite cost savings, the bridge will cost roughly $3 million rather than the nonprofit's usual $50,000, "given the more stringent design and engineering rules [in the U.S.], including load standards."
The site is close to the spot where the city plans to break ground on the River North Park next year. "The city also has plans for a $12 million river promenade running along the east bank, from 29th to 38th streets, that would improve the existing river path."

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