OUTCOMES/ AGENDA 1. Welcome 1. BSIG Exercise 2. Welcome and Intros 2. Framework Plan 3. Review Framework Plan 4. Considerations for Design, Equity, Economic Development & Governance 5. Intro to 4 geographies and breakout work session 3. Work Session - Breakout into 4 Geographies: 1. Foundry/Armory to SLU 2. Gateway Mall 3. Griot 4. Grand Blvd to Delmar 4. 10 min Break 5. Regroup - Report Out on 4 Geographies 6. Closing
BIGGEST What TodayFAN Is
BIGGEST What TodayFAN Is Epic Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors
The only way that we can make this project work, leading the nation in intentional equity, is if we passionately advocate for it.
The only way that we can make this project work, leading the nation in intentional equity, is if we passionately advocate for it.
We are the biggest fans!
“This feels different.”
WHAT IS A GREENWAY? • Trails to take a walk, go for a run, ride a bike, or just get some fresh air. • Conservation projects to maintain healthy habitats and watersheds. • Amenities like restrooms, water fountains, benches, bike racks, signage, parking and playgrounds. • Connections to business districts, neighborhoods, transit, jobs, schools, cultural destinations, rivers, creeks, parks and conservation areas.
WHAT IS AN URBAN GREENWAY? • A density of green • A clear and unifying identity • Opportunities for inter-mobility • Opportunities for programmability and place-making • A catalyst for economic opportunity and growth • A catalyst for culture • A catalyst for community and social interactions
ASPIRATIONS FOR THE GREENWAY
UNEARTH
CONNECT
Expose and educate the region about lesser known histories; amplify natural beauty; uncover present stories of local culture, challenges, and identities.
Bridge gaps that divide, cross real and assumed borders, weave together city’s strengths.
PROVOKE Boldly examine social and ecological challenges; inspire regional dialogue and new ideas.
CULTIVATE Nurture opportunities, relationships and understandings within and between communities.
HEAL Foster reconciliation of historical and current cultural trauma; remediate ecological well-being of urban environment; foster new social infrastructures.
ENVISION Imagine future outcomes and cultural possibilities.
BIG IDEA: A TRANSFORMATIONAL PROJECT & PROCESS
BIG IDEA
CHOUTEAU MISSION + VISION MISSION Chouteau Greenway will transform St. Louis by connecting people and our City’s most treasured places, creating inspiring experiences and equitable opportunities for growth.
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FOREST PARK
TOWER GROVE PARK
BIG IDEA
A GREEN CULTURAL NETWORK OF + FOR ST. LOUIS
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GREEN NETWORK DESTINATION PARKS GEOGRAPHIES ST. LOUIS NEIGHBORHOODS CONNECTED EXPERIENCES
BIG IDEA
MILL CREEK VALLEY
ARMORY/ FOUNDRY
SOUTH GRAND
TOWER GROVE PARK
ARCH GROUNDS
FAIRGROUND PARK
KINGSHIGHWAY CROSSING
GRIOT MUSEUM
VASHON HIGH SCHOOL
DELMAR AT GRAND CENTER
UNDER TRESTLE PARK
FOREST PARK
PROPOSED GREENWAY KINGSHIGHWAY AND FOREST PARK
PROPOSED GREENWAY AT GRIOT MUSEUM
PROPOSED GREENWAY AT ARMORY
PROPOSED GREENWAY AT DELMAR AT GRAND CENTER
PROPOSED GREENWAY AT SOUTH GRAND
PROPOSED GREENWAY AT VASHON HIGH SCHOOL
PROPOSED GREENWAY AT GRIOT MUSEUM
BREADCRUMB
HOW THIS IS DIFFERENT • More than just a greenway, more than just a trail • Equity as a key principle and goal of the project. • Extensive ongoing engagement and support by array of public, private, community-based, and non-profit organizations. • The project has been led and informed by an incredibly diverse Steering Committee and four Working Groups and has been advised by the Artists of Color Council. • The project is unique in its scale and ambition: nothing like this has been done before, here or across the US.
This feels different because it is different.
BIG IDEA
WHY NOW • Momentum to build on • Blooming research and tech sectors • Diverse arts speaking to the cultural and ethnic diversity in the city • Diverse food offerings • Opportunity for current St. Louisans to feel they are welcome and belong • Opportunity to investment across the city in neighborhoods and ways that address local needs • Imagine new ways to work and live and play
let’s start now…
OPPORTUNITY: WHAT THE GREENWAY COULD DO
OPPORTUNITY
CELEBRATE ST. LOUIS, ITS HEART, SOUL, & GRIT
OPPORTUNITY
CREATE NEW CONNECTIONS Forge new, deep, and meaningful connections • Opportunity to forge new, deep, meaningful connections among people from all neighborhoods • Break down social, physical, economic, and regulatory barriers • Connect islands of activity - assets, destinations, places, and neighborhoods • Welcome new audiences for dialogue, interaction, and participation • Establish powerful bonds between people and places
OPPORTUNITY
EMBRACE EQUITY
OPPORTUNITY
DEVELOP A BOLD, UNIVERSAL, & ICONIC DESIGN • Embody an identity and design that is bold, unifying, and accessible. • Inviting to all people from all backgrounds and all abilities. • Design identity rooted in St Louis - the rivers, geology, ecology, brick , and social customs. • Projecting an optimistic, rich, and inclusive future for the city • Welcomes every kid from every neighborhood in the city
PRAIRIE / SAVANNA
UPLAND FOREST
INVITE NATURE INTO THE CITY
Prairie / Savanna
CULTIVATED
LOWLAND/WET
Upland Forest
Cultivated
Lowland / Wet
OPPORTUNITY
MAKE ART CENTRAL TO THE PROCESS • Temporalities: Pre-Activation, Community Engagement, Events + Programming, and Permanent Installations • Encourage conversation and reflection about the hidden stories of our city • Ensure the stories reflect the vibrant diversity of our city • Inviting the public to create, share, and experience visual, performative, and interactive works across various landscapes • Art integrated into a community engagement strategy • Confront the social and spatial borders that divide • Artwork embedded in bridges and structures • Local and international artists
OPPORTUNITY
GENERATE RETURN ON INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITY
PROMOTE ECOMONIC OPPORTUNITY
OPPORTUNITY
INVEST IN NEW CIVIC ALLIANCES • A planning process different from most in St. Louis. • A multi-racial and multi-gender lead design team. • Planning committees and councils that mirror the demographics of the city. • Development of the greenway will not be “business as usual”. • Rare opportunity for dialogue and collaboration, bringing together a unique set of people. • Build personal and organizational relationships needed to execute this project.
OPPORTUNITY
DEVELOP A NEW FORM OF GOVERNANCE This framework proposes a governance structure that is grounded at the local level with oversight and expertise from an entity that has extensive experience in constructing and operating greenways within the region.
GROW THE GREENWAY OVER TIME
SYSTEM: WHERE THE GREENWAY COULD GO, WHAT IT COULD BE
SYSTEM
A GUIDE TO GEOGRAPHIES & OPPORTUNITIES
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KITCHEN GARDENS
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JEFF VANDER-LOU / GRAND CENTER OPPORTUNITIES & RECOMMENDATIONS
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ENVISIONING DELMAR AT GRAND CENTER
GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY
VA MEDICAL CENTER
THE SUN THEATER
MURAL WALL SWEETIE PIES
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OUTDOOR POTLUCK DELMAR AS MIXED USE ST.
GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY
VA MEDICAL CENTER
THE SUN THEATER
MURAL WALL SWEETIE PIES
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ENVISIONING VASHON HIGH SCHOOL
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DUNBAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIVING SCHOOL YARD
ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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INTERACTIVE PLAY NORTH GRAND
PLAY + ART ORCHARDS
URBAN PRAIRIE CASS AVE
MARKET PLAZA
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ENVISIONING KINGSHIGHWAY CROSSING
FAIRGROUND
SLU CENTRAL WEST END
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
CORTEX
BJC MEDICAL CENTER SHRINERS
CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
TREE GROVE / SOUND BUFFER STEINBERG SKATING RINK
ART PARK
FOREST PARK
THE GROVE
STRATEGY: HOW THE GREENWAY MIGHT WORK
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Upland Forest Prarie
LOWLAND/WET
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LANDSCAPE AS COMMON GROUNDS
Lowland / Wet
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OPEN SPACE AND PLACEMAKING Event Celebration Nature
GATEWAY ARCH
Music
Millennial Recreation Pump Track Beer Garden Games/Festival
Gather Eat
Art Park Gather Views Therapy Gardens
TOWER GROVE PARK Lovejoy Memorial Justice Truth
Sculpture Reclamation Culture Art
Mill Creek Memorial
Festival Gather
Pruitt Igoe Memorial Stroll Play Rest
FOREST PARK
FAIRGROUND Veteran Memorial History Events Recreation Celebration
Eat Play Outdoor Pavilion Events
Growing Gathering Culture Living Schoolyard
Civic Square Education Art Music Food Truck Fair
Experimental Art Hangout Adventure Play
VACANT LOT STRATEGY
Agriculture Event Space Grove
Urban Agriculture - Michigan Urban Farming,, Detroit
Playground
Market Seeding Lot
Phytoremediation
Stormwater Collection
Solar Collection
Temporary Programming - Ynot Lot performance, Baltimore Pollinator Garden Skatepark
Orchard
Play Berm
Community Center Sculpture Park
Retention Pond
Tree Nursery - rest stop with tree nursery and seating, Pier 42 New York
STRATEGY
ART TO CONNECT PEOPLE & PLACES • Artistic contributions along the Chouteau Greenway provide opportunities to develop new public art projects and cultural experiences • Encourage conversation and reflection about the hidden stories of the city • Ensure that the stories told through the greenway reflect the vibrant diversity of the city
STRATEGY
SITE STRATEGIES FOR ART
UNEARTHING HISTORIES MAP KEY
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A DISTINCT AND UNIFYING IDENTITY Special Pattern A
Transitional Patterns
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Rock
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Thick River Clay
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A DISTINCT AND UNIFYING IDENTITY
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3A Social Seating Cluster At bus stops and important sites
2 Play Area
Grass Play Mounds
Rubber Play Mounds
Bench Long x 1-3
4A Vertical Marker Every 1/2 mile
5A Planting
6 Bike Rack
Rubber Play Mound
Bench Short x 1-3
3B Social Seating Cluster
2B Play Area
4B Vertical Marker Every 1/2 mile
At bus stops and important sites
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Rubber Benches
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Bench Medium
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Bench Short Marker
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IDENTITY - BRIDGES RIVERS
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SWITCHBACK
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FLUID + ADAPTABLE FORMS
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IDENTITY - BRIDGES FOUNDRY DEVELOPMENT
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Equity for the Chouteau Greenway can be achieved through four equitable practices, with progress and success measured through a framework of metrics, some tracked by Great Rivers Greenway, and some tracked by other organizations in the region. Create “build, promote, and sustain” opportunities to increase businesses and job growth in a manner that increases household income and minimizes disparities for those most excluded (people of color, women, and STL residents).
Improve the health and vibrancy of residents, neighborhoods, and environmental ecologies along the greenway where access, mobility, health, and recreation exist.
EXAMPLE METRICS • Increase in M/WBE contracting • Increase in workforce participation disaggregated by race, age, gender
• New businesses added disaggregated by race and gender of owner, geography
• New jobs added
• Increased local spending
• Reduced land vacancy disaggregated by geography
• Increase in business loans, disaggregated by race, gender, geography
• Increase in capital investments by geographies EXAMPLE METRICS • Acreage of pervious surface added • Number of trees planted • Number of sponsored walks and rides distributed by geography • Number of bicycle trips per month • Increase in funding to communitybased organizations within geography • New miles of greenway and bikeway
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Incorporate and connect local known and lesser known multicultural destinations, histories, narratives and traditions into the identity of the greenway’s design and function.
Create positive interactions, relationships and partnerships with civic and community organizations, and residents that help increase users and stewards of the greenway.
EXAMPLE METRICS • Number of local and national artists involved in installations and initiatives, disaggregated by race, age, gender, geography (local, regional, national). • Distribution of installations and programs across geography.
• Number of people who participate in outdoor activities, disaggregated by race, age, gender, geography • Number of new outdoor recreation offerings disaggregated by geography • New bicycle racks added, disaggregated by geography
• Increase in M/WBE business growth or expansion (scale up) • Number of new M/WBE start-ups • Number of businesses financed, disaggregated by race, gender of owner
• Reduced bicycle and pedestrian crashes and accidents
• Reduction in home loan denial rate, by geography
• Diversity of rents by geography
• Increase in funding to communitybased organizations within greenway geography
• Number of affordable housing units added, by geography • Number of affordable housing units added, by geography • Increase in home ownership by geography and race
• Languages represented
• Number of partnerships with existing cultural organizations and events segmented by race, geography, ethnicity
• Number of new cultural events initiated, segmented by race, geography, ethnicity
• Decrease in unemployment by race, geography, gender, age
• Increase in financial capital to M/ WBE start-ups
• Crime reduction, verified by police statistics, by geography
• Track number of interpretative sites acknowledged
• Decrease in unbanked/ underbanked households, by race, geography, gender, household size
• Increase in number of community plans adopted by geography • Number of participatory neighborhood planning events by geography
• Number of sites that are explicitly welcoming to people with disabilities. EXAMPLE METRICS • Demographics of participants in engagement activities disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, geography • Demographics of volunteers • Number of greenway users disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, geography
• Representation of partner organizations from all greenway geographies
• Increased participation in neighborhood associations near/on greenway
• Inclusion and diversity of local residents in content creation and storytelling
• Number of and increase in volunteers, disaggregated by age, race, gender, geography
• Funding provided to greenway partner organization to support greenway events, programming, stewardship
• Distribution of geotag posts on social media by geography
• Number of clean-ups by geography
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EQUITABLE PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing
Organizations identified by practice area Business, Jobs, and Wealth Creation Quality of Life and Neighborhoods
North Newstead CDC
Identity and Culture Civic and Community Participation
St. Louis County NAACP
Organization for Black Struggle The MET Center/Family & Workforce Centers of America SLACO Better Family Life 4 the Ville
Art House STL, Artivist STL
LinKSTL
Mission STL Northside Community Housing RAC St. Louis Artworks
Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club MADE STL
Exodus Gallery
Growing American Youth Washington University
CHIPS Good Life Growing
Launch Code
Doorways
Forest Park Forever
That Uppity Theatre
George B Vashon Museum Home
14th Street Artist Community/ ZukaArtsGuild REAP Farm
100 Black Men
Missouri History Museum
Griot Museum of Black History
URB Arts
Deaconness Foundation St. Louis Housing Authority
The Urban League Contemporary Art Museum
St. Louis Regional Health Commission
CAAAB Justine Petersen
WU School of Medicine Craft Allliance Grand Center, Inc. Places for People St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department BJC Com munity Builders Network STL Kranzberg Foundation Scott Joplin House Cortex Innovation Community Prospect Yards Gateway Greening ULI St. Louis SLU Center for Sustainability WePower STL Fashion Fund CIC Coworking Saint Louis University Rise Community Development City Parks Department Foundry Harris Stowe State University AIA St. Louis Armory T-Rex Explore STL MSD WUMCRC St. Louis Public Library STLCC Employment Connection Focus STL Mayor's Office of Sustainability Trailnet Urban Strategies Federal Reserve Bank City Health Departm ent (SLEHCRA) Downtown STL Inc. McCormack Baron STL Planning - Office of Cultural Resources Equal Housing Opportunity Council Pride Center Park Central Development St. Louis Regional Chamber Starkloff Disability Institute OneSTL Casa de Salud Boys & Girls Club STL MO Foundation for Health Ameren Forest Park Neighborhood Association SBA St. Louis City Streets Department
300 Organizations
reporting to practice equitable strategies in St. Louis.
USGBC MOBOT Operation Brightside The Nature Conservancy
Kingdom House DeSales Community Housing Corporation
Tower Grove Neighborhood CDC Art Scope St. Louis Invest STL Tower Grove Farmers Market International Institute Missouri Coalition for the Environment South Grand CID Open Space Council InPower Institute
Life for Life Academy
St. Louis Bike Works
166 Organizations
practicing equity within the study area.
136 Organizations
practicing equity elsewhere in the region
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Businesses, Jobs & Creating Wealth
71 42
Quality of Life & Neighborhoods
41 44
Identity & Culture
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Civic Participation
STRATEGY
BUSINESS SUPPORT •Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce • Asian American Chamber of Commerce •St. Louis Regional Chamber •Hispanic Chamber of Commerce •Bosnian Chamber of Commerce • Asian American Chamber of Commerce •St. Louis Regional Business Council •Small Business Administration •St. Louis Minority Business Council MEASUREMENT & ACCOUNTABILITY •Forward Through Ferguson •Efficacy • MOKAN CCAC St. Louis Construction Contractors Assistance Center •ULI-STL •Association of General Contractors
BANKS, LENDERS, & DEVELOPERS •Enterprise Bank & Trust • U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation •St. Louis Community Credit Union •Rise Community Development • Neighborhood Community Development Corporations •IFF COORDINATING ORGANIZATIONS •St. Louis CDFI Coalition • City of St. Louis Planning Department • St. Louis Association of Community Organizations (SLACO) •St. Louis Development Corporation NETWORKING & SUPPORT • Center for Emerging Technology (CET) •Venture Café •T-Rex •Nebula •Trex •Delmar Devine •MultiPass •CIC - Coworking • Bob Virgil Center for Entrepreneurship Harris Stowe State University • Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship at SLU • Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Program at Webster • Social Entrepreneurship Specialization at Brown School FUNDERS & ACCELERATORS •Accelerate St. Louis (RBC) •Ameren Accelerator •BioGenerator •Capital Innovators •Cultivation Capital •Diverse Business Accelerator (RBC) •St. Louis Community Credit Union •Prosper Women Entrepreneurs •SixThirty
Qu al i LAND AND SITES •Brightside St. Louis •Metropolitan Sewer District •REAP Farm •St. Louis City Parks Department •Good Life Growing ADVOCACY, EDUCATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING •Gateway Greening •The Nature Conservancy •Missouri Coalition for the Environment •International Institute •Open Space Council •St. Louis Solidarity Economy •Trailnet •St. Louis Metro Market •Emerging Wisdom •Girls on the Run •Go! St. Louis Marathon •Places for People • St. Louis Food Policy Coalition (run by MCE) •YMCA of Greater St. Louis •Equitable STL •Homes for All •Urban Strategies • St. Louis Association of Community Organizations (SLACO) • MU Extension NLA & NLF •Trailnet •Paraquad •Citizens for Modern Transit •NACTO •Starkloff Disability Institute •Organization for Black Struggle •Block Captains Unit •Pride Center •Growing American Youth •Hispanic Festival Inc •YWCA Metro St. Louis •Missouri Botanical Garden •USGBC – Gateway Chapter COORDINATION AND CONVENING •OneSTL •Green City Coalition •Mayor’s Office of Sustainability •SLU Center for Sustainability •Vacancy Collaborative • Washington University Office of Sustainability
•Rise Community Development • Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) Coalition • Affordable Housing Commission City of St. Louis (AHC) • Missouri Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) • St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance (SLEHCRA) •Community Builders Network •Invest STL •St. Louis Office of the Disabled HEALTHCARE •BJC HealthCare •St. Louis College of Pharmacy •Casa de Salud • CHIPS (Community Health in Partnership Services) • St. Louis Regional Health Commission • Health Protection & Education Services (HPES) •Hospitals • North Central Community Health Center •VA St. Louis Health Care System FUNDERS •Deaconess Foundation •MO Foundation for Health •Sisters of Mercy RECREATION • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis •Girls on the Run •STL Pick-Up Soccer •Arch Rival Roller Derby •Life for Life Academy •YMCA of Greater St. Louis •BWorks •Big Brothers Big Sisters TRANSPORTATION •Metro / BiState •Lime •MoDOT • East West Gateway Council of Governments
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LAW ENFORCEMENT AND GOVERNMENT • St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department • City of St. Louis Neighborhood Stabilization Team FUNDERS •MO Foundation of Health • St. Louis Community Credit Union DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE PROVIDERS •Vatterott Development •UIC •STL Housing Authority • Dutchtown South Community Corporation •Cornerstone Corporation • STL Housing Authority •Casa De Salud •Kingdom House •Thomas Dunn •Park Central Development •Prospect Yards •South Grand CID •Better Family Life • DeSales Community Housing Corporation •Better Family Life • UJAMAA Community Development Corporation (UCDC) CITY GOVERNMENT • Office of the Mayor, City of St. Louis •St. Louis Planning Department PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS •APA-STL •APA-MO •ULI-STL
PROGRAMS •St. Louis ArtWorks •Freedom Arts Center •Your Words STL •Art Scope St. Louis •Artists First •Shakespeare Festival St. Louis •Brick City Makes •MADE STL •Samba Bom •St. Louis Osuwa Taiko •Viva Brasil STL •Metroscapes •COCA Biz •That Uppity Theatre •The Black Rep •Theatro Nuevo •Upstream Theatre •Arch to Park •Indigenous Interpretation Council •4 the Ville •Anti-Defamation League •Pride St. Louis •St. Louis Storytelling Festival •That Uppity Theater •Urban League •4 the Ville •Hispanic Festival Inc •Hispanic Leaders Group of Greater St. Louis •Puerto Rican Society INSTITUTIONS AND SPACES •Pulitzer Arts Foundation •Intersect Arts Center •Yeyo Arts Collective •14TH STREET ARTIST COMMUNITY/ZukaArtsGuild •COCA •Contemporary Art Museum •Craft Allliance •Exodus Gallery •Krazenberg Arts Foundation •Laumeier Sculpture Park •Mad Art •Metro Theatre •Perennial •South Broadway Arts •Third Degree Glass Factory •UrbArts • MO History Museum / Historical Society •St. Louis Public Library • City of St. Louis Office of Cultural
Resources •Griot Museum of Black History • Gateway Arch National Park and The Gateway Arch •St. Louis Public Library •Better Family Life •International Institute •Campbell House Museum •Fairgrounds Park • Holocaust Museum & Learning Center •Magic House •Scott Joplin House • The Field House Museum (Eugene Field House) •The Sheldon •Tower Grove Farmers Market •George B Vashon Museum Home •Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing GROUPS AND COLLECTIVES •Artivists STL •Hispanic Arts Council of St. Louis •Carol Lara Photography •Latinx Arts Network •Forai FUNDERS AND SUPPORT •Regional Arts Commission (RAC) •Diversity Awareness Partnership RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC GROUPS •International Institute •African Diaspora Council •Gateway Korea Association •Hindu Temple of STL •Japan America Society • Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) • OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates • St. Louis Jewish Community Center •St. Louis Modern Chinese School •Stuggart Sister City •Vitendo4Africa MEDIA •Humans of STL •Nine Network •St. Louis Post Dispatch •St. Louis American •Out in St. Louis
SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS •Alive & Well STL •Better Family life •Beyond Housing •Big Brothers Big Sisters •Boys & Girls Club STL • Community Builders Network (CBN) • Community Engagement Action Group (CBN) •Diversity Awareness Partnership •Doorways • East West GatewayEmpower Missouri •Focus STL •Good Life Growing •Green City Coalition • Hispanic Leaders Group of Greater St. Louis •International Institute •LinkSTL, Inc. •Metro / BiState •NAACP • Office for Socially Engaged Practice (Sam Fox School) •Pride St. Louis •PROMO • Re-Entry Community Linkages (RE-LINK) •Regional Arts Commission (RAC) •SAGE of PROMO • St. Louis Association of Community Organizations (SLACO) •St. Louis Mosaic Project •Urban League •Venture Café St. Louis •Welcome Home • Boys & Girls Club of Greater St. Louis • MO History Museum / Historical Society •St. Louis Public Library •Harris Stowe State University •Saint Louis University •St. Louis Public Schools •YMCA of Greater St. Louis PROGRAMMING •Metro / BiState •Missouri Botanical Garden •OneSTL •WePower •Good Life Growing •EDHUBSTL
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TRAINING •Launch Code •LUZCO Technologies •HOSCO Farms • Ranken Community Development Corporation •STL Community College •Youth Build •Goodwill •Launch Code •Square One (SQ1)
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EQUITABLE PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS
• St. Louis Food Policy Coalition (run by MCE) •The Nature Conservancy •Focus STL •Trailnet •Saint Louis University (SLU) •Urban League • GORC (Gateway Off Road Cyclists) •KPMG International •Neighborhood Associations •North Corridor Collaborative •REI •SLU High School • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) •STL Community College •Focus STL •Creative Reaction Lab •Diversity Awareness Partnership •WePower •Hispanic Chamber of Commerce •NCCJ • St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative • MU Extension - Neighborhood Leadership Academy + Leadership Fellows •St. Louis Mosaic Project
STRATEGY
ECONOMIC GROWTH APPROACH
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ECONOMIC GROWTH APPROACH
“This feels different.”
SYSTEM
CORRIDOR EVALUATION COMPARISONS
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CENTRAL CORRIDOR / CENTRAL WEST END
• Opportunity for a unique urban greenway experience along the MetroLink rail and trestle • Connecting SLU, SLU Med and Foundry/Armory with a comprehensive greenway network • Potential to activate underutilized parcels under the existing trestle as Under Trestle Park • Opportunity for a signature bridge and crossing experience along Spring Ave. through the I-64
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JEFF VANDER-LOU / GRAND CENTER
• Build on existing and proposed commercial assemblage and vacant lot activation near N. Grand & Cass to create mixed-use hub • Strong potential for strengthening neighborhood amenities and institutional connectivity through closing Grandel Sq to vehicular traffic or temporary Delmar Blvd event closures • Opportunity to reduce collisions and greatly improve pedestrian safety through connectivity of education to everyday facilities
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ST. LOUIS PLACE
• Opportunity to build on the presence of local institutions, potential partners, existing/planned multi-family residential developments • Opportunity to build multi modal transit nodes with proposed MetroLink corridor • Potential for a Neighborhood Commercial Zoning District on the southwest corner of Cass Ave. and N. Florissant
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DOWNTOWN WEST / MIDTOWN
• Potential to enhance the user experience along a continuous civic boulevard from educational hubs to the Arch grounds • Potential to improve connectivity between major institutions and cultural venues • Long-term potential for uninterrupted and uniquely St. Louis greenway experience along the rail • Opportunity along rail for environmental improvement and cleaning contaminated sites
This has been an amazing journey, and one that has uncovered many new ideas that have advanced our thinking and attitude about just what Chouteau Greenway can be.
First… the realization that the ‘making of’ the greenway is as important as the greenway itself…
We discovered this is more than a physical greenway, Chouteau Greenway is a MOVEMENT that can serve as a catalyst to improve our city
We confirmed the obligation to improve the quality of opportunity for all‌
We also discovered a way of thinking that allows this process and project to lead to more equitable economic development...
We learned this community is really passionate about this opportunity‌
We incorporated creative placemaking, art and artists early in the design process‌
We unearthed important histories vital to our story‌
We incorporated new tools, data and technologies for making informed decisions‌
We embraced the critical role nature can play in restoring the ecology of our city‌
We learned we need to be flexible and adaptable to collaborate with each unique community we touch...
We recognized that governance will be key to ensure a sustainable future‌
Thank you
We encouraged constant feedback, and engaged in a much more inclusive process which delivered the most diverse and motivated working groups GRG has ever experienced‌