ONE CITY BELONGING TO ALL
OUR CHOUTEAU GREENWAY PLAN LINKS FOREST PARK TO THE ARCH, THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO THE CENTER AND TO EACH OTHER, WITH DIVERSE PUBLIC SPACES ALONG THE WAY.
THE FRAMEWORK
COMMON GROUND THE POND is a new destination and permanent water body in the heart of downtown, just southwest of Busch Stadium. An oasis of greenery and a place of respite, it also improves the ecology of the city and is a key feature of our proposed new, green storm water management system.
THE VALLEY BEELINE
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KIKU OBATA & COMPANY RICH NELSON
ABNA NICOLE ADEWALE LEED AP, PRINCIPAL
ABNA TY ABBOTT PE
ABNA FRANK EPPERT
ABNA MICHAEL BUSCHER
ABNA CHANTAL BLOCK
ALCHEMIC WORKS JESSICA PERKINS
VIA PARTNERSHIP MERIDITH MCKINLEY
DEMOND MEEK ARTIST
WORK/PLAY DANIELLE AND KEVIN MCCOY ARTISTS
YVONNE OSEI ARTIST
ELLIE BALK ARTIST
ADDOLEY DZEGEDE ARTIST
GARDINER & THEOBALD KEVIN GULVIN
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ABNA STEPHEN ALSBURY
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PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE WALKING & JOGGING PATH LOOKOUTS
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TERRY PARK
THE POND
TURPIN’S PORCH LAFAYETTE PARK
PICNICKING FOOD TRUCKS MARKET EVENT SPACE HISTORY WALK
BOAT HOUSE KAYAKING BOATING BIRD VIEWING ECOLOGY WALK
COMPTON HILL RESERVOIR PARK
RAY LEISURE PARK
CHOUTEAU TRESTLE RIVER OVERLOOK PEDESTRIAN & BIKE PATH
HYDRO DRAMATICS KERRY FRIEDMAN
M3-EG MARC ESHELMAN PE
BIO HABITATS KEITH BOWERS
BIO HABITATS ED MORGERETH
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WM TAO & ASSOCIATES STEVE ANDERT
OPERATIONS STRATEGIST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
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PUBLIC POLICY SPECIALIST MOLLY METZGER
REGINA MYER
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Art is a fundamental part of St. Louis and an integral part of our plan. Art should be infused everywhere, broadening access, and bringing enjoyment to all. St. Louis has world-class art institutions, and we believe that by making art—in its many forms—a foundational component of the Chouteau Greenway, the city will gain stature on a national and international level.
EWING WETLANDS provides on-grade access to the Valley Beeline. We propose a new MetroLink Station here, less than 0.5 miles from Market Street.
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ABNA DAVID DOBKOWSKI PE
ARUP LUKE TARASUIK
THE TRESTLE CITY FOUNDRY DISTRICT ARMORY DISTRICT
INFUSE ART EVERYWHERE AND MAKE A WORLD-CLASS STATEMENT
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ARUP MARGARET NEWMAN
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BOTANICAL HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN
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CITY FOUNDRY & ARMORY DISTRICT
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SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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UNION STATION
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CLIMBING WALL SKATEPARK BASKETBALL COURTS PLAYGROUND
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W-ARCHITECTURE BARBARA WILKS
connects the Valley Beeline, St. Louis University, and Grand Center Arts District to Fairgrounds Park along a protected bicycle and pedestrian pathway.
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CLAYTON AVE INNOVATION PARK
NORTH SPRING AVENUE
HARRIS-STOWE STATE UNIVERSITY
PICNICKING BASKET BALL COURTS PLAYGROUNDS FOUNTAIN WATER FEATURE PERFORMING ARTS
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GRAND LAWN NATIVE GARDENS WATER PLAY THE ISLAND ICE SKATING
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KINGSHIGHWAY CROSSINGS
WESTERN GATEWAY MALL
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SPRING AVENUE CORRIDOR
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ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
CHOUTEAU OVERPASS
stretches from Fairground Park to Tower Grove Park. Spring Avenue will have separated bicycle and pedestrian pathways continuously along the street, allowing safe passage north and south, including a ramp down to the Grand Avenue MetroLink Station. The Spring Avenue Connector (right) makes important links between the Valley Beeline, St. Louis University, St. Louis University Medical Center, City Foundry, The Armory, and Grand Center Arts District.
POWELL HALL
CHESTNUT STREET PARK is at 21st and Chestnut Streets at the end of the Gateway Mall. A stream for water play winds through to the valley. A large lawn is a casual amphitheater, and a café and performing arts center overlooks all. Pathways connect to the Valley Beeline and Turpin’s Porch.
One of several Seed Neighborhoods where direct investment is intended to help them bloom through improvements planned in conjunction with the community. These neighborhoods are on the north-south connectors, linking them to the new activities in the center as well as to other neighborhoods.
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A gracious, widened park edge along Lindell allows bicyclists and pedestrians safe, continuous passage and connects to the main entry of Washington University.
uses an abandoned railway trestle to provide bicycle and pedestrian access out over the river for a spectacular view! It ramps up from 7th Street and has several vertical connections to other areas in Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District.
WESTERN GATEWAY MALL begins to channel rainwater into the valley through a series of educational rain gardens. New neighborhood amenities like picnicking, nature play and tennis are located among the existing features.
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MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM
Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District, east of The Pond towards the river, is a new downtown neighborhood with renovated historic buildings infilled with new housing, retail, and restaurants. Compact and walkable, with views of the river, it’s a great new place to live.
We propose to work directly with the neighborhoods through public engagement, art programs, theatre reenactments, and open dialogue to find out WHAT THE NEIGHBORS WANT, and plan with intentional equity. Engage local organizations, institutions, and businesses in the process.
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LINDELL BOULEVARD AND CONNECTION TO WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
ST LOUIS PLACE THE TRESTLE
WILLIAM J. HARRISON EDUCATION CENTER
CHOUTEAU’S LANDING RIVERFRONT DISTRICT
Refurbish existing streets with public amenities, such as separated bicycle and pedestrian pathways, sidewalks, curbs, art, signage, history, lighting, water fountains, seating, shade structures, landscaping, bike racks, paving, emergency phones, WIFI, and other elements determined though neighborhood engagement.
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These north-south connectors increase access between the valley center and the neighborhoods and create opportunities for community-directed investment and local, entrepreneurial growth.
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STEVENS MIDDLE SCHOOL
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS
In St. Louis, along the north-south connector streets are existing and emerging neighborhoods where local business and community leaders have organized efforts to spur new residential and commercial development. Yet, they remain islands, isolated from the central corridor’s concentration of corporate, cultural, and institutional investment.
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GEORGE B. VASHON MUSEUM
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links up Forest Park Avenue and Market Street to create a beautiful Civic Street with a separated bicycle and pedestrian pathway connecting Kingshighway to the Arch.
Our plan calls for investment in these seed neighborhoods where spending has been limited—Fountain Park, Lewis Place, Vandeventer, JeffVanderLou, St. Louis Place, Gate District, Botanical Heights.
GRIOT MUSEUM OF BLACK HISTORY
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
THE SHELDON
REVEALING THE INVISIBLE Our plan reclaims the valley and makes it a new and vital center, increasing access and providing diverse engagement. The valley becomes a series of connected places making water, ecology, art, sports, history, and culture part of everyday experience.
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provide direct access to the park’s network of pathways and a renovated Steinberg Skating Rink and Rooftop Cafe.
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TURPIN’S PORCH is an urban promenade, around 30 feet wide and almost 1.5 miles long, that can be used by bicyclists and pedestrians. It connects the Arch Grounds with Union Station and Chestnut Street Park to the west.
INVEST IN SEED NEIGHBORHOODS PARN ELL S T
SOLDAN HIGH SCHOOL
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FOUNTAIN PARK
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AN ERASED NEIGHBORHOOD No housing exists in the valley. Gone are the community and history of those who used to live here. Some are remembered, like Josephine Baker, but her house is gone as are all other remnants of the place. Though Mill Creek Valley is forever changed, we would like to bring back its memory, and restore some of its soul so it is a place where all people, especially African Americans, feel at home.
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HERBERT HOOVER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
THREE BRIDGES TO FOREST PARK AT KINGSHIGHWAY
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS NORTH CAMPUS
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Streets with safe pedestrian and bicycle pathways link the neighborhoods to the center and to each other. Public spaces blend nature with human environments and dynamic activities, located at intervals that create flow from one to the other.
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New, vibrant, and diverse public places where we find Common Ground: safe social spaces that belong to us—like Forest Park, Tower Grove Park, and Citygarden—where we eat, listen to music, dance, perform interact with art, shop at markets, go to festivals, learn, talk, listen, and play. Each will have a unique combination of water, green space, natural landscaping, public gathering space, amenities, places for food, sports, art, and history.
BETTER FAMILY LIFE
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FOREST PARK
MONSANTO FAMILY YMCA
is an ecological pathway for cyclists and pedestrians. Juxtaposed against the rail yards and industry, the Beeline follows the valley floor through wetlands and under highway structures. It brings together urban and nature experiences in a choreographed sequence of diverse events.
CREATE NEW PUBLIC SPACES
FAIRGROUND PARK
KINGSHIG
FAIRGROUND PARK
Two new main connectors link the Arch Grounds and Forest Park: The Valley Beeline and Forest Park Market Greenway.
Mill Creek Valley, once a natural watershed, has disappeared from the everyday experience of the city. Now the water is contained in underground tunnels. Bridges take residents over the valley, creating a barren and horizontal flatness in the former city of hills. Today the valley is devoted to transportation and industry. This east-west corridor divides the city north and south.
THE COMMUNITY HUB, located at Compton Avenue on the Forest Park Market Greenway, once the roadways are untangled, is a major gathering place for inside / outside recreation such as swimming, basketball, yoga, dance, exercise rooms, and places for exhibits, meetings, conversation, and mingling.
RAMP TO GRAND AVENUE STATION allows easy access to the MetroLink stop, running east from the Spring Avenue Connector, an elevated pathway for bikes and pedestrians that links North and South Spring Avenues over and under the highway to the Valley Beeline.
THE NEW EAST-WEST EXPERIENCE
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BACKGROUND
POPLAR STREET BRIDGE PARK is at the south edge of the Arch Grounds and the terminus of the Valley Beeline. The park is shaded by the highway and has a huge play area with colorful climbing nets, a skatepark, and basketball courts.
IT’S WHERE WE GET TOGETHER AND RECONNECT AS ONE CITY, NO LONGER DIVIDED.
SOULARD PARK
CHOUTEAU’S LANDING RIVERFRONT DISTRICT APARTMENTS MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT LOCAL RESTAURANTS WE-WORK & STUDIOS
POPLAR ST BRIDGE PARK BASKETBALL COURTS PLAYGROUNDS SKATEPARK
MOTION PIECE
SOUND SESSIONS
MAPPING THE POND
I would be interested in creating a motion piece to generate buzz and help with fundraising for this project. Something that’s shot really well featuring people from all over the city in their different neighborhoods. It’ll be a voiceover piece where you see beautiful images of people looking directly into the camera. The dialogue will have something to do with connection, or being connected, fabric, coming together. Close-ups, slow-motion, low depth-of-field, some moody, some bright, all times of day, beautiful color. The piece would focus less on buildings and environment, but more on the people.
Music has no color and has always been a unifying medium even in times of severe injustice or segregation. Think James Brown during the 1960’s. Sound Sessions would utilize DJ residencies for live jams and include musical acts to activate these spaces along the greenway. It offers a space for people to congregate and go on a musical journey together.
As an artist growing up in St. Louis, I have always understood the landscape to be flat. When you fly into the city, this is what you see. I was recently shown a topographic map of the region, and I was surprised to see the valley that runs like a vein through the city. This changes the way I see the city and brings to light the infrastructure that makes these spaces inaccessible. I propose creating a ground mural that highlights the topography of the area. Painted on site in the valley, this mural will create an opportunity for community engagement in the implementation of the mural. Seeing the topography on the ground in this way will inspire people to think differently about the space in hopes to ignite conversation about re-visioning the landscape.
Demond Meek demondmeek.com
WORK / PLAY Danielle and Kevin McCoy w-o-r-k-p-l-a-y.com
Ellie Balk elliebalk.com
CLAYTON AVENUE INNOVATION PARK is on the Valley Beeline along both sides of Vandeventer Avenue. Protected by the highway above, activities like basketball, skateparks, and climbing exist alongside food trucks and festival areas.