Maryland Parkway TOD Plan

PROJECT SUMMARY: Maryland Parkway is a vital corridor for the Las Vegas Valley, spanning from downtown Las Vegas to McCarran International Airport (LAS). The corridor connects the City of Las Vegas, and unincorporated Clark County communities to the south, and connecting the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), the Boulevard Mall, Sunrise Hospital, and many residential and commercial neighborhoods in between. The Maryland Parkway high-capacity transit project will improve service along an 8.7 mile route between the airport and Las Vegas Medical District.

The central goal of the project is spurring transit-oriented development (TOD) in the Maryland Parkway corridor. It’s TOD Plan will assess development around the station areas to ensure that future high-capacity transit both connects and builds on the existing economic and social assets in the corridor.

The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) completed its Environmental Assessment of high-capacity transit for the Maryland Parkway corridor in 2019. The TOD Plan began in early 2020, and will continue over seven phases through winter 2021. The Existing Conditions and Needs Assessment was completed in April 2020. RTC contracted a consultant team to produce the TOD Plan on behalf of the City of Las Vegas and Clark County.

TEAM: MIG, Nelson\Nygaard, Anil Verma Associates, EPS, Paceline Consulting, and Purdue Marion & Associates

ROLE: As a member of Nelson\Nygaard’s project staff, I was the project manager for Nelson\Nygaard’s contributions to the Existing Conditions and Needs Assessment. The Existing Conditions and Needs Assessment was developed as two parallel reports, one for City of Las Vegas and one for Clark County. I developed station area metrics, analyzed existing conditions, and coordinated team resources for efficient task delivery.

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