Brickline Greenway Framework Plan - Equity Section

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EQUITY HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST Equity for the Chouteau Greenway can be achieved through four practice areas, with progress noted through a series of metrics,

Improve the health and vibrancy of residents, neighborhoods, and environmental ecologies along the greenway where access, mobility, health and recreation exist.

Incorporate and connect local known and lesser known multicultural destinations, histories, narratives and traditions into the identity of the greenway’s design and function.

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Create opportunities to increase businesses and job growth in a manner that increases household income and minimizes disparities for those most excluded (racial, gender and other minorities).

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some of which would be implemented and tracked by Great Rivers Greenway and some by other organizations in the region.

Create positive interactions, relationships and partnerships with civic and community organizations and residents that help increase users and stewards of the greenway.

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EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES These four equitable practice areas include the following 26 strategies and an even larger number of potential actions that can be deployed as a part of building, operating and activating the greenway (on-greenway), as well as through the

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BUSINESS RETENTION & ATTRACTION

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BUSINESS SUPPORT & MENTORING

BUSINESS FINANCING & INCENTIVES

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COMMUNICATIONS

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On-greenway refers to the greenway itself and property directly abutting the greenway. Off-greenway refers to the area within 1/4-mile (4 blocks or a 5-minute walk) of the greenway.


EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS Over 200 local organizations that participate in equitable practices have been identified through research and information provided by the project’s Working Group and Steering Committee members. This list is not exhaustive and shows a snapshot in time. These organizations, and others yet to be identified, represent opportunities to collaborate with

ORGANIZATIONS IDENTIFIED BY PRACTICE AREA Business, Jobs and Wealth Creation Quality of Life and Neighborhoods Identity and Culture Civic and Community Participation

Great Rivers Greenway on and alongside the greenway to maximize equitable processes and outcomes. All sectors of the community, and residents in particular, expressed a strong desire to see people who “looked like them” in leadership positions and doing the work of making the greenway a reality. The process of building, maintaining, sustaining and activating the greenway should be implemented by people and organizations that are representative of the city’s diverse populations. The following pages provide a list of St. Louis organizations identified to date that have the potential to participate in equitable development and programming.

300 Organizations

reporting to practice equitable strategies in St. Louis.

166 Organizations

practicing equity within the study area.

136 Organizations

practicing equity elsewhere in the region

42 33

Businesses, Jobs & Creating Wealth

71 42

Quality of Life & Neighborhoods

41 44

Identity & Culture

12 17

Civic Participation

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EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS BUSINESS, JOBS AND WEALTH CREATION SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS • Metro/Bi-State Development • Employment Connection • Urban League • Mission STL • NAACP • Small Business Majority • St. Louis Mosaic Project • Unions • The MET Center • St. Patrick Center • St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE) TRAINING • Launch Code • LUZCO Technologies • HOSCO Farms • Ranken Community Development Corporation • STL Community College • Youth Build • Goodwill • St. Patrick Center • Square One (SQ1) BUSINESS SUPPORT • Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce • Asian American Chamber of Commerce • St. Louis Regional Chamber • Hispanic Chamber of Commerce • Bosnian Chamber of Commerce • St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC) • 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 • U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation 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

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NETWORKING & SUPPORT • Center for Emerging Technology • Venture Café • T-Rex • Nebula • Delmar Devine • MultiPass • CIC - Coworking • Bob Virgil Center for Entrepreneurship at Harris Stowe State University • Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University • 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

QUALITY OF LIFE AND NEIGHBORHOODS LAND & SITES • Brightside St. Louis • Metropolitan Sewer District • REAP Farm • St. Louis City Parks Department • Good Life Growing ADVOCACY, EDUCATION & CAPACITY BUILDING • Gateway Greening • The Nature Conservancy • Missouri Coalition for the Environment • International Institute of St. Louis • 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) • University of Missouri Extension NLA & NLF • Trailnet • Paraquad • Citizens for Modern Transit • National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) • Starkloff Disability Institute • Organization for Black Struggle • Block Captains Units

• Pride Center • Growing American Youth • Hispanic Festival Inc • YWCA Metro St. Louis • Missouri Botanical Garden • U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) – Gateway Chapter

• Hospitals • North Central Community Health Center • U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs St. Louis Health Care System FUNDERS • Deaconess Foundation • Missouri Foundation for Health • Sisters of Mercy • MO Foundation of Health • St. Louis Community Credit Union

COORDINATION & CONVENING • OneSTL • Green City Coalition • Mayor’s Office of Sustainability • Saint Louis University 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

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

HEALTHCARE • BJC Health Care • St. Louis College of Pharmacy • Casa de Salud • CHIPS (Community Health in Partnership Services) • St. Louis Regional Health Commission • Health Protection & Education Services (HPES)

LAW ENFORCEMENT & GOVERNMENT • St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department • City of St. Louis Neighborhood Stabilization Team

TRANSPORTATION • Metro / Bi-State Development • Lime • Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) • East West Gateway Council of Governments


EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS CIVIC AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

IDENTITY AND CULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE PROVIDERS • Vatterott Development • UIC • 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 Dept 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 • Urban League • Hispanic Festival, Inc. • Hispanic Leaders Group of Greater St. Louis • Puerto Rican Society INSTITUTIONS & SPACES • Pulitzer Arts Foundation • Intersect Arts Center • Yeyo Arts Collective • 14TH STREET ARTIST COMMUNITY/ZukaArtsGuild • Center of Creative Arts (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 • Fairground 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 • St. Louis Symphony Orchestra GROUPS & COLLECTIVES • Artivists STL • Hispanic Arts Council of St. Louis • Carol Lara Photography • Latinx Arts Network • Forai

FUNDERS & SUPPORT • Regional Arts Commission (RAC) • Diversity Awareness Partnership RELIGIOUS & 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 • Community Engagement Action Group (CBN) • Diversity Awareness Partnership • Doorways • East West Gateway • Empower Missouri • Focus STL • Good Life Growing • Green City Coalition • Hispanic Leaders Group of Greater St. Louis • International Institute • LinkSTL, Inc. • Metro / Bi-State Development • 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 / Bi-State Development • Missouri Botanical Garden • OneSTL • WePower • Good Life Growing • EDHUBSTL • 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) • St. Louis Community College • Creative Reaction Lab • Diversity Awareness Partnership • Hispanic Chamber of Commerce • NCCJ • St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative • MU Extension - Neighborhood Leadership Academy + Leadership Fellows • St. Louis Mosaic Project

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EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS BUSINESS, JOBS AND WEALTH CREATION ON- AND OFF-GREENWAY

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

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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT/ PARTICIPATION

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Establish, monitor and

Programs that provide

Acquire or access

publish DBE goals and

job and soft skill

appropriate permissions

continue to proactively

training for unemployed

for greenway routes

greenway and investments along the greenway

build and maintain

and underemployed

in disinvested

could produce economic opportunities in

relationships with

populations, including

neighborhoods.

partners already working

employable youth.

(racial, gender and other minorities). Great Rivers Greenway has long been a leader in ensuring its contracting and procurement seeks the highest levels of participation by

STRATEGY:

minority and women-owned businesses, but recognizes that this alone is not enough to make more meaningful advances in equitable

DEFINITION:

economic development. The work of building the

development, construction and other services.

effectively with WBE/

Off-greenway, strategies should seek to

MBE/DBE.

grow businesses and jobs through attraction, retention, mentoring and incubation, as well as strategies that support financial empowerment for St. Louisans who may not have access to capital and wealth generation.

EXAMPLE METRIC:

• Increase in workforce • Meet or exceed 25% MBE contracting and 5% women contracting

participation disaggregated by race, age, gender • New jobs added

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• Reduced land vacancy disaggregated by study area • Increase in capital investments by study area


EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS

OFF-GREENWAY

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BUSINESS RETENTION & ATTRACTION

BUSINESS INCUBATION

BUSINESS SUPPORT & MENTORING

BUSINESS FINANCING & INCENTIVES

FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT

Activities that promote the

Opportunities to advance

Programs that provide

Programs that provide

Opportunities to build

attraction and retention

and support M/WBE and

capacity building support,

capital and financing and

personal and generational

of businesses, including

local resident business

including mentorship,

development incentives

wealth to maintain quality

M/WBE, start-ups and

start-ups and small business

training and network to

to small, local and M/BWE

of life.

entrepreneurs, that offer a

expansion.

small, local businesses and

business and projects.

range of high and low skilled

M/WBE businesses.

jobs at living wage and above.

• Number of M/WBE • New businesses added disaggregated by race

by business support

and gender of owner,

organizations and

geography

resources

• Increase in local spending

• Number of businesses

businesses served

• Increase in M/WBE business growth or expansion (scale up)

• Number of new M/WBE start-ups

• Decrease in

financed, disaggregated

unemployment by race,

by race, gender of

geography, gender, age

owner • Increase in financial

• Increase in high wage occupations by race,

capital to M/WBE start-

geography, gender, age,

ups

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EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS BUSINESS, JOBS AND WEALTH CREATION The Equitable Practice Evaluation Tool (map and chart) is intended to be used by Great Rivers Greenway, its partners, and the community to evaluate existing conditions and prioritize the FA I

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strategies most critical to achieving greater equitable outcomes in each greenway geography. 70

The map to the left shows that based on challenges and needs identified, the highest opportunities for implementing business, jobs, and wealth creation equitable practice strategies

Fairground

St. Louis Place

will occur in the Fairground, St. Louis Place, Downtown, and Grand Center geographies. See the appendix for an illustration of opportunities to align equitable practice strategies across geographies based on coming developments, investments and trends.

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Grand Center

EXAMPLE PRIORITIZATION OF BUSINESS, JOBS AND WEALTH CREATION STRATEGIES BY STUDY AREA

FOREST P ARK Downtown 64

44 44

Tower Grove

Higher Priority

Lower Priority

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Downtown West

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Midtown

Priority Priority Lower Lower Priority Priority Priority

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Higher Higher Priority Priority

Fairground Fairground Fairground Connector Connector St. Place St. Louis Place St. Louis Louis Place Jeff Center Grand Center Jeff Vander-Lou/Grand Vander-Lou/Grand Center Downtown Downtown West Downtown West/Midtown West/Midtown Downtown Downtown Downtown Central End Midtown Central Corridor/Central Corridor/Central West West End Tower Grove Connector Tower Grove Tower Grove Connector Forest Forest Park Forest Park Park Connector Connector

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BSM ST. LOUIS BUSINESS DIVERSITY INITIATIVE Launched in 2001, the St. Louis Business Diversity

GREENLINING FUND

Initiative assists area companies in building successful

Great Rivers Greenway has a successful track record of

The Metropolitan St. Louis CRA (MSLCRA) Association,

diversity and inclusion programs through training,

contracting with minority and women-owned firms to

the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment

convening and consulting. The Initiative is made up of

construct their greenway projects. GRG is committed to

Alliance (SLEHCRA) and others are working to establish

companies, organizations and agencies committed to

achieving similar City of St. Louis contracting goals of 25%

a Greenlining Fund supported by the banking and

attracting, retaining and advancing talented, diverse

minority and 5% women-owned firms.

philanthropic community.

employees.

MINORITY & WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES

SUCCESSFUL DBE CONTRACTING TRADES

The fund would foster homeownership for lower-income

St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative works with

residents in redlined areas by issuing mortgages in excess

companies and organizations throughout the region to

of the appraised value of the home. Greenlining would

assist them in developing strategies and solutions in the

enable renters to break free of high rents on depressed

areas of workforce diversity, inclusion and leadership

homes and build equity in home ownership. Home

Asphalt

Guardrail

Prime Contractor

Clearing

Masonry

Steel Erection

Concrete

Painting

Metal Fabrication

Electrical

Paving

Survey/Staking

Erosion Control

Plumbing

Traffic Control

development for their unique situation. Their consulting

ownership stabilizes neighborhoods and is attractive to

Trucking

work includes the development of customized strategies,

outside investment.

Fencing

Signage

Geotechnical

Striping

solutions and programs in the areas of recruitment, retention, advancement of talent and identification of

OTHER CONTRACTING TRADES

opportunity for civic engagement and service within the

Antigraffiti Coating

Grading

Retaining Walls

Artists

Irrigation

Saw Cutting

Carpentry

Joint Sealing

Reinforcing Steel

Craning

Landscaping

Tree Removal/Trimming

Demolition

Seeding

region.

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EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS QUALITY OF LIFE AND NEIGHBORHOODS ON- AND OFF-GREENWAY

Improve the health and vibrancy of residents, neighborhoods and environmental ecologies along the greenway where access, mobility, health and recreation exist.

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HW

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ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP

HEALTH & WELLNESS

RECREATION

Practices that incorporate

Programming that

Design and programming

environmentally

promotes both physical

that creates new active

As the greenway passes through 17 St. Louis neighborhoods, it can catalyze many quality of life improvements including access to commercial amenities, transportation and housing affordability.

STRATEGY:

On-greenway equity strategies should build on existing GRG success in impacting environmental conditions, increasing mobility and access

DEFINITION:

and creating safe and accessible spaces and

sustainable design and

and mental health

open space recreation

programming. Off-greenway, efforts must ensure

construction methods and

activities that can be

in areas with insufficient

today’s residents are able to remain in place and

ongoing maintenance and

attributed to physical

open space.

benefit from future improvements.

stewardship in partnership

activity and access to

with local communities

open space.

Planning and development in the neighborhoods

and institutions.

along the greenway should aspire to increase the access to affordable housing and commercial space and promote small and large business development while minimizing involuntary displacement. Opportunities for the involvement of community-based organizations, residents and businesses will be essential and, where necessary, capacity-building strategies should be deployed to ensure increased ownership of the greenway and other neighborhood investments.

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EXAMPLE METRIC:

• Number of sponsored • Acreage of pervious surface treatments added • Number of trees planted

• Number of people who

walks and bike rides

participate in outdoor

in the community

activities, disaggregated

distributed by study

by race, age, gender,

area

geography, ability

• Number of bicycle trips per month

• Number of new outdoor recreation offerings


EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS

OFF-GREENWAY

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PUBLIC SAFETY

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

ANTI-DISPLACEMENT

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING

COMMUNITY PLANNING

Practices that provide

Practices that incorporate

Activities that promote the

Practices that help to

Opportunities to provide

Design and implementation

new modes of transit,

design features that

attraction and retention

maintain neighborhood

support to organizations in

of the greenway should be

connect to existing modes

support safe environments,

of businesses, including

affordability and ownership

underinvested communities

done in the context of a

of transit and maximize

a sense of belonging

M/WBE, start-ups and

of local housing and

so they can more fully

participatory neighborhood

this access.

for marginalized groups

entrepreneurs, that offer a

commercial property by

participate in neighborhood

planning framework.

and cultural competency

range of high and low skilled

existing residents and

revitalization activities.

training to help promote

jobs at living wage and

businesses.

positive social interactions.

above.

MOB

PS

AH

MOBILITY

• Crime reduction, • New miles of greenway and bikeway • New bicycle racks added, disaggregated by study area

verified by police statistics, disaggregated by study area • Reduced bicycle and pedestrian crashes and accidents

• Diversity housing rents by study area • Number of affordable

• Increase in home ownership by study area and race

housing and physically

• Reduction in home loan

accessible units added,

denial rate, by study

by study area

area

• Increase in number • Increase in funding

of community plans

to community-based

adopted by study area

organizations within

• Number of participatory

greenway study area

neighborhood planning events by study area

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EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS QUALITY OF LIFE AND NEIGHBORHOODS The Equitable Practice Evaluation Tool (map and chart) is intended to be used by Great Rivers Greenway, its partners, and the community to evaluate existing conditions and prioritize the FA I

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strategies most critical to achieving greater equitable outcomes in each greenway geography. 70

Based on current trends, in areas where neighborhood quality of life issues are most pressing, equity strategies that help advance mobility (MB), environmental leadership (EL), anti-

Fairground

St. Louis Place

displacement (AD), and affordable housing (AH) have a higher priority in the St. Louis Place, Grand Center, and Fairground geographies.

Forest Park 70

Grand Center

FOREST P ARK

EXAMPLE PRIORITIZATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND NEIGHBORHOODS STRATEGIES BY STUDY AREA Higher Priority

Downtown 64

44 44

Tower Grove

Higher Priority

Lower Priority

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H ARC

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Downtown West

TOWER GROVE P ARK

PPI

Midtown

Priority

Lower Priority

Lower Priority

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Higher Priority

Priority

Fairground Fairground Connector St. Louis Place St. Louis Place Grand Center Jeff Vander-Lou/Grand Center Downtown West/Midtown Downtown West Downtown Downtown Central Corridor/Central West End Midtown Tower Grove Connector Tower Grove Forest Park Connector Forest Park

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HW

REC

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AH

AD

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CP


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LIFE OUTSIDE FESTIVAL The Life Outside festival, hosted by Great Rivers Greenway, brings together area businesses, nonprofits and clubs to offer activities for people of all ages. Attendees can see, try and learn ways to spend more of their lives outside. Free activities include tree climbing, kayaking lessons, birdwatching, rock climbing,

CDCB

NEIGHBORHOOD VACANCY INITIATIVE

NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, working in

The Neighborhood Leadership Academy (NLA), created

collaboration with the Vacancy Collaborative, helps local

in 2002, connects resources at the University—Creating

residents and community-based organizations reduce the

Whole Communities and University of Missouri Extension

problem of vacant, abandoned and blighted housing in the

—with residents and neighborhoods throughout the

city of St. Louis. Services provided include: • Vacancy prevention: Helps low-income residents with

nature crafts and activities for kids, walks and bike rides,

title issues and older homeowners to transfer their

gardening and yoga.

homes through beneficiary deeds to avoid vacancy. • Title clearance: Assists City agencies and nonprofits to clear land titles for development, which creates

metropolitan area who are interested in improving their communities. NLA provides hands-on leadership training that emphasizes community building principles and strategies, project planning, organizational leadership, management practices and personal leadership skills.

affordable housing. • Problem property issues: Represents community

Participants are actively involved in their neighborhoods and represent communities from throughout the St. Louis

groups and neighborhood associations to file lawsuits

region. Participants may be neighborhood association

against the owners of vacant, run-down properties to

members, community leaders, resident volunteers,

force them to sell or repair their property.

community-based organization staff, business owners,

• Community assistance: Educates community groups about the legal tools available to prevent and reduce vacancy, and to assist them with legal organization and nonprofit incorporation through the Microenterprise Program.

local government staff or municipal elected officials. Participants who successfully complete the program receive a Certificate in Neighborhood Leadership from the Chancellor of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. More than 300 neighborhood and organization leaders from throughout the St. Louis region have participated in the NLA, learning the skills and building the networks necessary to create whole communities. CHOUTEAU GREENWAY FRAMEWORK PLAN | FALL 2019 | 41


EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS IDENTITY AND CULTURE Incorporate and connect local known and lesser known multicultural destinations, histories, narratives and traditions into the identity of the greenway’s design and

ON- AND OFF-GREENWAY

function.

AIP

DP

SI

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ART INSTALLATIONS & PROGRAMS

CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: DESIGN & PLACEMAKING

CULTURAL PRESERVATION: STORYTELLING & INTERPRETATION

CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: PROGRAM & EVENTS

Opportunities to engage

Opportunities to reference

Opportunities to

Opportunities for local

artists of color, women and

cultural narratives

include different

organizations to create

foreign born populations

(ecological, populations)

cultural narratives

programs and events

in the production of art

and universal ability

(ecological, populations)

related to specific cultural

inform both essential greenway

throughout the greenway

considerations in design,

and languages into

narratives about St. Louis.

elements such as paving and furnishing,

and programs that engage

and including community

communications, signage,

local residents in art-

members in the creation of

wayfinding and events.

making.

designing spaces.

There will be numerous opportunities to unearth and reveal the distinct personalities, cultures and traditions of neighborhoods, histories and communities. Local artists, cultural organizations and residents should

STRATEGY:

participate in the design, installation, and programming along the greenway that celebrate St. Louis. In collaboration

DEFINITION:

with artists and local arts and culture organizations, design and art can

as well as public art installations. Art can serve as both a temporary and permanent strategy to embody authentic neighborhood identity and character, and engage residents in the development of the greenway.

EXAMPLE METRIC:

• Number of artists and initiatives, by race, age, gender, geography • Distribution of installations and programs across study area

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• Number of new cultural

involved in installations • Number of sites that are explicitly welcoming to people with disabilities

• Languages represented • Track number of interpretative sites acknowledged

events initiated, by race, geography, ethnicity • Number of partnerships with existing cultural organizations by race, geography, ethnicity


EQUITY: HOW THE GREENWAY CAN BE INCLUSIVE & JUST EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS The Equitable Practice Evaluation Tool (map and chart) is intended to be used by GRG, its partners, and the community to evaluate existing conditions and prioritize the strategies most

EXAMPLE OF EQUITABLE PRACTICES STRATEGY AND METRICS

critical to achieving greater equitable outcomes in each greenway geography. The map below shows that based on need and existing assets within these geographies, the highest priority to elevate local cultural heritage through art and programming would be in Grand Center,

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Downtown, and Tower Grove.

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THE HISPANIC FESTIVAL The Hispanic Festival, Inc. seeks to unite all Hispanics regardless

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of their social, economical and political background, and share the rich and colorful Hispanic culture with the Greater St. Louis

Fairground

area. The Hispanic Festival mission is to increase regional

St. Louis Place

awareness of the spectrum of cultural contributions made by Hispanic musicians, dancers, artisans and chefs. This also serves to preserve these vibrant traditions and to educate the next Forest Park 70

generation.

Grand Center

FOREST P ARK

EXAMPLE PRIORITIZATION OF IDENTITY AND CULTURE STRATEGIES BY STUDY AREA

Downtown

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MISS ISSI

Downtown West

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Tower Grove

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Midtown

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Higher Priority

Lower Priority

Priority Higher Higher Priority

Priority Priority

Lower Lower Priority

AIP

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SI

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Fairground Fairground Connector St. Louis Place St. Louis Place Grand Center Jeff Vander-Lou/Grand Center Downtown West Downtown West/Midtown Downtown Downtown Midtown Central Corridor/Central West End Tower Grove Tower Grove Connector Forest Park Forest Park Connector CHOUTEAU GREENWAY FRAMEWORK PLAN | FALL 2019 | 43


CATALYST STRATEGY: HOW THE GREENWAY COULD WORK: EQUITY EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES AND METRICS CIVIC AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION Create positive interactions, relationships and partnerships

ON- AND OFF-GREENWAY

with civic and community organizations and residents that help increase users and stewards of the greenway. These strategies are designed to ensure

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EAP

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LCB

ENGAGEMENT

EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAMMING

STEWARDSHIP

LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING

Practices that build

Opportunities to use

Opportunities to involve

Opportunities to create

relationships with

educational programs

a diverse demographic

a broader base of

immigrant, refugee,

and institutions to

of volunteers and

community leaders and

religious, LGBTQIA+, mental

raise awareness about

organizations to

organizational partners

health, justice-impacted,

greenways among

participate in the

and volunteers that

marginalized populations.

programming and upkeep

reflect the demographic

of greenways.

population of St. Louis.

broad and deep engagement is a part of every aspect of the greenway design, development, maintenance, and activation processes. This will require a

STRATEGY:

multi-pronged approach to increasing awareness and knowledge about the greenway—where is it, how to use it,

DEFINITION:

how to care for it, what to do around it—using multiple languages, formats, and communication outlets. A robust

indigenous communities,

stewardship program will be needed to

people with disabilities,

invite diverse local groups to become

older adults, younger

partners in the care and programming.

children, etc.

Partner organizations should be supported in their leadership and capacity growth to ensure an equitable level of care and activation across all 17 neighborhoods.

EXAMPLE METRIC:

• Demographics

• Increased participation

of participants in

users disaggregated

engagement activities

by race, ethnicity, age,

increase in volunteers,

disaggregated by

geography

disaggregated by age,

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• Number of greenway

• Representation of partner organizations from all greenway study areas

• Number of and

race, gender, geography • Number of clean-ups by study area

in neighborhood assoc. near/on greenway • Funding provided to partner organization to support greenway events, programming, stewardship


CATALYST STRATEGY: HOW THE GREENWAY COULD WORK: EQUITY EQUITABLE PRACTICE STRATEGIES The Equitable Practice Evaluation Tool (map and chart) is intended to be used by Great Rivers Greenway, its partners, and the community to evaluate existing conditions and prioritize the strategies most critical to achieving greater equitable outcomes in

EXAMPLE OF EQUITABLE PRACTICES STRATEGY AND METRICS

each greenway geography. The map below shows that based on the current lack of community participation activity, the highest priority area to increase civic and community participation is in the Fairground and St. Louis Place geographies.

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Over seven months, residents—AKA Power-Builders—work in a place-based class to learn, collaborate, and take action FA I

RG R PA OUN RK D

COMMUNICATIONS

to achieve policy change that strengthens outcomes for kids 70

in their community. Power-Builders learn how to lead policy change through training on racial and social justice, growing an understanding of how the current system works, completing

Fairground

St. Louis Place

data analysis of community engagement, researching and creating or improving existing policies, and launching a policy

Incorporate practices that

campaign.

use a “humble voice,” “show rather that tell” and

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use diverse representation

Grand Center

in all forms of accessible

FOREST P ARK

communication that promote the principles

Higher Higher Priority Priority

Downtown

of diversity, equity and

of local residents in

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• Distribution of geotag posts on social media by study area

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PPI

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content creation and storytelling

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Fairground Connector Fairground Fairground Connector St. LouisPlace Place St. Louis PlaceSt. Louis Jeff Vander-Lou/ Jeff Vander-Lou/ Grand Grand Center Center Grand Center Downtown West Downtown West/Midtown Downtown West/Midtown Downtown Downtown Downtown Higher Priority Central Corridor/ Midtown Central Corridor/ Central West End Central West End Tower Grove Tower Grove Connector Lower Priority Tower Grove Connector Forest Park Forest Park Connector Forest Park Connector ARC

• Inclusion and diversity

Priority Priority LowerPriority Priority Lower

Higher Priority

MISS ISSI

Downtown West

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inclusion.

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64

Midtown

EXAMPLE PRIORITIZATION OF CIVIC AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION STRATEGIES BY STUDY AREA

Tower Grove

TOWER GROVE P ARK

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