Here is the most recent Union Station urban design submission to the planning board. Anne Hayes, who is Chairperson of Union Station Advocates and Vice President and Project Manager for Westfield Development Company, was kind enough to send it to me. It focuses on three elements of the redevelopment plan:

  1. The canopy connector between the train hall and Union Station.
  2. The pedestrian bridge that connects Lodo with Central Platte Valley over the Amtrak and commuter rail tracks (formerly known as Kinetic Plaza).
  3. The grand staircase at Wynkoop Plaza.

While the design of the canopy connector seems to be acceptable to all or most parties, the updated design of the pedestrian bridge appears to be causing some heartburn. In fact, at its April 28 meeting, the planning board sent the design team back to the drawing board. The original design called for a grand public space with public art and plenty of room for tables where it connected to a proposed adjacent building on the Central Platte Valley side on the tracks. With that building now in question, the new bridge design is far more utilitarian and has lost all of its public space features. See pages 8 and 9 in the link above for renderings of the current bridge design. The August 4 planning board meeting should bring the bridge issue to an interesting conclusion.