UMass Amherst Center Economic Development2024-04-262024-04-261995https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/4735<p><strong></strong>The Center for Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, is part of the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department, and is funded by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the University of Massachusetts.</p>Professor Joseph Volpe in the fall of 1994 proposed to graduate student Frank Sleegers a Master project on a visionary design for the riverfront in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. Volpe directed the project and Chaired Sleegers’ Master Committee. This Proposal is an expanded edition of Sleegers’ Master Project, Back to the River – A Visionary Design to Recapture the Riverfront in Downtown Springfield, MA.Open SpaceStreet NetworkConstitution PlazaEconomicsGrowth and DevelopmentUrban, Community and Regional PlanningUrban Studies and Planningarticle