The West Team sought to combine neighborhood redevelopment with improvements to Apache Creek/Elmendorf Lake between South Zarzamora and Rosedale Park. The team proposed removal of houses and some commercial structures at the edge of the creek to allow widening, more gradual sloping enhanced landscaping of the banks in some areas, thus improving the retention and natural filtration of runoff and allowing a more parklike environment. New parkways would be built parallel to the creek to increase public access and passive surveillance, to use the creek as an opportunity to link rather than divide the neighborhood, and to create sites for about 1600 new housing units in courtyard configurations. 

The team proposes a zocalo, a mixed-use neighborhood center built around a new public square, on Commerce Street facing Elmendorf Lake, to provide new opportunities for small-scale businesses in an attractive environment and with access to both city-wide and neighborhood markets. - Mike Greenberg  
 

A result -  Project Bridge's Apache Creek Greenway