The Waterfront District Plan will open access of the Detroit Shoreway and Ohio City neighborhoods to the expanded parks and lakefronts. The plan will also support neighborhood and mixed-use investment.

For a development such as Battery Park, this plan means that residents and visitors will have safe and open access to Lake Erie and surrounding parks, providing increased incentive to invest in this already growing area of Cleveland.

To encourage this pedestrian and bike-friendly atmosphere, intersections will be added on the Shoreway at several north and south streets including, West 73rd, West 65th, West 54th, West 45th and West 25th. An existing tunnel at West 76th will be rehabilitated into a new ADA-accessible pedestrian and bike path tunnel. A similar underpass is planned for West 73rd as well directly benefitingBattery Park residents.