ASPEN — A proposed project that’s being hailed as the “Galena Community Connection” — a way of linking downtown retail areas with the plaza next to the Pitkin County Library and Rio Grande Park — will be discussed at Tuesday’s Aspen City Council work session.
The meeting starts at 4:30 p.m. at Aspen City Hall. The same meeting is expected to feature a discussion on whether the council is interested in providing a subsidy to organizers of the Aspen Big Barbecue Block Party, which was initially held in August 2010 but has yet to return to the city’s annual festival lineup.
As for the Galena Connection, the council in late October heard from a city design team involved in collecting community input and creating preliminary plans for a renovated park in the area next to the library — also known as Galena Plaza — along with a pedestrian-friendly corridor with more green space and wider pathways. That corridor would flow from Galena Street near the downtown retail walking malls
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