About The Walk
The Walk is a mixed-use project designed to celebrate community, connection, and everyday life in the City of Norwalk. Thoughtfully planned around landscaped pathways and shared gathering spaces, The Walk represents a new chapter in the ongoing revitalization of the Civic Center area.
The project brings together retail, residential, and public spaces to create an environment that is welcoming, accessible, and designed to serve both local residents and visitors.
A Path Forward for the Community
Honoring the past while looking ahead.
The name The Walk was chosen to honor the City of Norwalk and its residents, while also symbolizing a path forward as the city continues to grow and evolve. Inspired by Norwalk’s civic identity and architectural history, the project blends modern design with a strong sense of place.
The Walk is envisioned as more than a destination — it is a shared environment where people can connect, gather, and participate in daily life.
An Open-Air Environment for Living, Working, and Gathering
Thoughtfully designed for people and place.
The Walk embraces Southern California’s climate with an open-air design that encourages movement, interaction, and accessibility. Pedestrian-friendly pathways connect retail spaces, residences, and gathering areas, creating a cohesive and walkable environment.
The project is designed to support everyday activities — from meeting friends and running errands to attending community events and enjoying shared public spaces.
At the Heart of the City
Connected to civic, residential, and commercial life.
Located at the intersection of Norwalk Boulevard and Imperial Highway, The Walk sits at a key crossroads within the city. The site is surrounded by civic institutions, employment centers, and established neighborhoods, making it a natural extension of daily life in Norwalk.
With convenient access to major freeways and nearby destinations, The Walk is positioned to serve the local community while welcoming visitors from surrounding areas.
Built With the Community in Mind
Listening, transparency, and engagement.
Community engagement is a core part of The Walk’s development. Feedback from residents, tenants, and neighbors helps inform planning decisions and guides how the project evolves over time.
Through ongoing outreach, updates, and open communication, The Walk aims to remain responsive to the needs and interests of the community it serves.
Shaping a Shared Future
A place designed to grow with Norwalk.
As development continues, The Walk will evolve alongside the community. The project is designed with flexibility in mind, allowing spaces to adapt over time and respond to future opportunities.
The goal is to create a destination that feels welcoming today and remains relevant for years to come.
The Walk
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to