Devon Avenue Streetscape for the Chicago Department of Transportation

The City of Chicago, in their efforts to improve streets and beautify neighborhoods, engaged MACTEC to perform the necessary planning and investigations for the improvement of the W. Devon Avenue commercial area between Broadway and Clark. The project objectives were to provide a new surface on Devon with a new curb, improved drainage, modernized street lighting, street furniture and other enhancements including:

• Planters with decorative metal railings intermingled with trees in grates
• New streetlights with tear-shaped lenses staggered with smaller decorative pedestrian lights
• Handicapped-accessible intersections including medallion stamps with a rolled abstract design that matches local architectural features
• A narrowed roadway allowing wider sidewalks
• Construction sequencing in three-block phases whereby construction cannot tie up more that one block at a time