Coos Bay Front Street Blueprint

The City of Coos Bay created a detailed Blueprint to improve Front Street over time.

The Front Street Blueprint identifies strategies for vehicle and pedestrian circulation improvements for wayfinding, streetscape, public art, expansion of the City’s boardwalk concept, and connectivity options to the Coos History Museum, Coos Bay Village, and the downtown core. The Blueprint was developed as a result of community engagement and supports the City Council’s economic development vision for Coos Bay.

Front Street is an extension of downtown Coos Bay with a direct connection to the bayfront. Located across Highway 101, pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicle access are available to the downtown commercial core and visitor amenities. Front Street is well positioned to provided recreational, dining, and retail opportunities for visitors and residents while maintaining its industrial heritage and utility for water-dependent businesses.

Key Front Street Blueprint Features

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Expanding the Community Vision

Front Street is an extension of downtown Coos Bay with a direct connection to the bay front. Located across Highway 101, it has pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle access to the downtown commercial core and visitor amenities. Front Street is well positioned to provide recreational, dining and retail opportunities for visitors and residents while maintaining its industrial heritage and utility for water-dependent businesses.

Articulation of a Front Street community dream was created in 1998 when the Coos Bay community memorialized the Front Street Master Plan. Over time the area has changed and grown but the community’s vision remains to restore Front Street to the vibrant and engaging waterfront of years past. In 2017, the Coos Bay Front Street Action Plan was the subject of much community engagement and provided expanded detail with the identification of implementable actions to increase connectivity, foster community access to the waterfront, attract private investment, and diversify Coos Bay’s economy. Since the 2017 work effort, the City successfully sought an ODOT grant to fund opportunities to implement key improvements to Front Street.

The Coos Bay Front Street Blueprint project, like previous efforts, engaged with the community to build on the work of the 2017 Front Street Action Plan and comply with the City’s 2020 Transportation System Plan.