6th Street Park
6th Street & Mill Ave.
3 acres
In 2002, the roadway east of Mill
Avenue was re-designed as a 1.5-acre public park. The wide
concrete walkway around the south and west sides of City
Hall includes various types of landscaping and several
park benches.
In a second phase of development,
Sixth Street Park was expanded 1.5 acres to the east in
2009 as part of the construction of a 400-space parking
structure next to City Hall. Tempe transformed the
left-behind street level parking lot into the second
part of Sixth Street Park, a green oasis in the middle
of busy downtown. The expansion brings more grass,
plazas, trees and art to Mill Avenue. It also features a
curvilinear great walk with patterned brickwork, a shade
trellis which doubles as a band shell and an artistic
sundial.