City awaits final plan, cost estimates for downtown Boulder mall redesign

BOULDER — They’re talking about cutting down trees.

But final plans for the Pearl Street Mall remain to be seen. The city hosted three meetings in June and July to gather public comment on the redesign of the outdoor shopping area, and most agree that it needs sprucing up.

The question is how the redesign team will do that. Molly Winter, executive director of the city’s Downtown Management Commission, doesn’t expect to see a design plan until October.

“We don’t know when we’ll get the final designs and…