Bitterroot Branch Trail News Today

The Missoula Redevelopment Agency this week approved a $65,000 contract directing Cushing Terrell to design and engineer lighting the trail's 2.7-mile stretch from the south side of Missoula to the Clark Fork River.

With the addition of workforce housing to Montana's definition of infrastructure, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency is working on ways to apply tax increment to future projects.

The city and a team of state and local partners will turn their focus to a stretch of the Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula in a bid to protect infrastructure.

The city and a team of state and local partners will turn their focus to a stretch of the Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula in a bid to protect infrastructure, restore habitat and add a new recreational feature.

Plans to convert the Montana Rail Link trestle crossing the Clark Fork River near downtown Missoula to a usable bike and pedestrian trail continue to move forward.

Plans to convert the Montana Rail Link trestle crossing the Clark Fork River near downtown Missoula to a usable bike and pedestrian trail continue to move forward, a city official said Thursday.

Funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and revolving loans have helped the City of Missoula make progress in cleaning a number of contaminated properties for redevelopment – a process expected to achieve several large milestones next year.

The Missoula Redevelopment Agency on Thursday approved a $341,000 contract with HDR to study the bridge, consider its structural integrity and present a number of conceptual renderings.

A proposal to alter a railroad bridge on the Bitterroot branch line near downtown Missoula to allow bicycle and pedestrian traffic won funding to begin the project's first phase, that being a study to determine if the idea is feasible.

Plans to convert the Clark Fork River railroad trestle near the Old Sawmill District into a pedestrian crossing could be back on the table.