Click Here to read the Mayor’s Office press release from July 23, 2025.
To see the bike rack idea selected for the Beyond the Beige award, Click Here.
We are grateful for the support for our Northeast Anchorage community provided by Mayor LaFrance’s office with this grant award and to our community donors. We achieved our fundraising goal 1/4/26! THANK YOU!
You can still make a tax-deductible donation to cover miscellaneous expenses
Aesthetically appealing communities with a sense of place—unique local identity and character—improve resident wellbeing and encourage tourism. Re-designing our built environment to create a vibrant sense of place in Muldoon synergizes with efforts to improve trails, pedestrian and bike-friendly streets, and accessible public transportation.
To learn about Placemaking, sucessful examples, and how to get involved CLICK HERE. See below and the Parks, Trails, and Transportation pages for ideas to improve Northeast Anchorage.
To create a sense of place, local public projects and businesses are encouraged to utilize the Northeast Anchorage Color Palette. Additionally, when planning public art projects in Northeast Anchorage, the following themes are encouraged: fish, moose, eagles, streams, mountains, wildflowers.
In June, 2025 the logo contest resulted in a new logo for Northeast Anchorage and the Community Council. Of the 11 designs submitted, the winner was:
Bumper stickers and all-purpose die cut stickers will be available February 2026!
Placemaking in Northeast Anchorage and the Beyond the Beige grant award from Mayor LaFrance’s office and ACDA mentioned in 1/2026 ADN article.
For Northeast Anchorage placemaking ideas so far, see below and explore the
Parks, Trails, and Transportation pages from the navigation menu.
Currently there is no visual indication when you have entered Northeast Anchorage or Muldoon aside from the Muldoon Road traffic signs at intersections.
Other neighborhoods including Mountain View have installed colorful pole banners that create a sense of place and unique character for their community.
We have 32 green lamp posts on Muldoon between Boundary Ave and 16th Ave and 5 more on Debarr in front of Fred Myer.
“DOON DANGLERS”
Northeast Community Council volunteers hang decorative lighting from the green lamp posts along Muldoon Rd and Debarr Rd.
This annual tradition brought holiday cheer to Northeast Anchorage for decades until 2023.
Community identity signs help create a sense of place, welcome visitors to the neighborhood, and can drive economic development. The sign and pole over Muldoon Road could mirror the illuminated columns with designs cut out from metal on the Muldoon-Glenn Hwy overpass. A design that lights up would visually tie the neighborhood together in all light conditions and create an inviting atmosphere on dim winter nights. A matching southbound sign could be installed near Peck Ave.
If a sign over Muldoon wouldn’t be feasible, a three-dimensional sign on the ground like gated communities often have could be an alternative. The Muldoon-Debarr intersection may be a good location, but this would be less visible than a sign over the roadway.
Inspiration:
Proposed location: Creekside Trail starts at the SW corner of Debarr and Muldoon, runs along the creek, goes under Creekside Center Drive, around Begich Middle School and out Chester Ct. The Creekside Trail underpass just east of Begich Middle School is currently covered in graffiti. It could be improved with a salmon-themed mural.
A salmon-themed mural would be a great opportunity to highlight an asset of the local environment and the area’s cultural heritage at the same time. The video from Washington to the left is a great example of a salmon mural painted collaboratively with a Native artist.
In the interest of promoting transparency with community development projects, the attachment for the fish mural and bike rack idea submitted for the 2025 Mayor’s Beyond the Beige Arts Grant can be
The ideas presented on this site build off of planning work done previously by residents in years past. The 2016 Muldoon Town Square Park Master Plan completed community workshops and came to the same conclusion as current residents that Muldoon, and specifically the area along Chanshtnu Muldoon Park at the intersection with Debarr, should be a focus of placemaking efforts.
See more ideas on the Parks, Trails, and Transportation pages.
Muldoon Community Page 