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People in New Rochelle are getting the chance to help shape their city.

The city is planning to turn one of the six lanes of Memorial Highway into a park, similar to the High Line in New York City. 

The Department of Development hosted a workshop Monday night to give people the chance to learn about the project and share their thoughts. 

Adam Salgado, the city's commissioner of development, says it's a gesture to a historically African American community in New Rochelle, the Lincoln Avenue Corridor community that was disproportionately affected by urban renewal. 

"This really is through stakeholder engagement a way to engage that Lincoln Avenue community and reimagine Memorial Highway, which was taken from the community back in the ‘50s and have it be a park and provide an asset to the community,” said Salgado.

The project is budgeted for $25 million, all set aside between federal and state money. 

Construction is expected to begin around 2025 or 2026 and should take about two years. 

The city is planning to turn one of the six lanes of Memorial Highway into a park, similar to the High Line in New York City.

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City of New Rochelle lets residents give input into planned park on Memorial Highway

New. Tonight, people in New Rochelle are getting the chance to help shape their City News Twelve's Veronica Jean Seltzer has the details on the planned park along Memorial Highway and VJ, what will this look like? It's a six lane highway right right now and one lane is going to be turned into this park. You can kind of think about it like the high line in New York City. And tonight, the Department of Development is hosting a design workshop to give people the chance to learn about the project and share their thoughts. The project's called the link. The city's Commissioner of Development says it's a gesture to a historically African American community in New Rochelle, the Lincoln Avenue Corridor community that was disproportionately affected by urban renewal. And this really is through a process of stakeholder engagement, a way for us to engage that Lincoln Avenue Community and Reimagine Memorial Highway, which was taken from the community back in the 50s and have it be a park and provide an asset to the community. Here are people think of the project coming up tonight on the news at 10 Veronica Jean Seltzer News 12

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