A Vision for Downtown Hastings

As part of the ReThink Our Streets project, the Project Team hired the talented services of Austin Arens, a landscape architect in the region, to take the community’s ideas and generate some visual representations of what Downtown could be.

Click on the image below to see more images and renderings. These aerial images and 3D renders are intended to inspire all of us to ask how can we use the public spaces in between the buildings differently to make our central business more inviting, community-oriented, and a special place for everyone to enjoy. The artistic crosswalks, spots for food trucks/farmers market/block party type events, and enhanced landscaping and hardscaping are drawn to give a different look and feel to Downtown Hastings.

We are looking forward to implementing some of these on a trial basis this summer and fall. If you have any feedback, ideas on how to implement some of these ideas on a temporary basis, or just want to help, we would love to hear from you! Please provide your thoughts in the "Ideas" tool on this project page.

Please note, that these renderings are not construction drawings, but rather images to begin a conversation of the future of our Downtown and our community.