Ambitious 20-year plan for downtown Juneau heads to Assembly

Downtown Juneau in January, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
Picture a downtown Juneau where housing isn’t as cutthroat to find, businesses don’t close down after cruise ships leave and the pressures of tourism don’t feel so heavy.
That sounds ambitious, but those are the priorities of a plan called Blueprint Downtown. Over the past six years, a commission of Juneau residents has examined every aspect of downtown and created a plan to lay the foundation for the next 20 years.