Chouteau Greenway W Arch Design Report

CHOUTEAU GREENWAY

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LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

CHOUTEAU GREENWAY INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, LLC

April 4, 2018 Susan Trautman Chief Executive Officer Great Rivers Greenway 6178 Delmar Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63112 Dear Susan, On behalf of my talented, hardworking, and energetic team, we eagerly present our proposal for Chouteau Greenway: One City, Belonging to All. Charged with connecting the Arch to the Park, this project has challenged us to dig deep and to work hard with our St. Louis partners to find ways to honor the high aspirations of the community and the partners. Our project reimagines St. Louis as a vibrant place, integrated with nature and art. The valley at the center of the community is no longer forgotten, but reunited with the water system, to become beautiful, accessible, healthy, and inviting. It’s a new destination in the heart of downtown for all to enjoy and cherish. The design joins together ecology, history, recreation, art, and culture with everyday experience. It weaves together the existing infrastructure of the highway and MetroLink with the new green infrastructure of water, pedestrians, and bikes. The design creates a series of connected places, and the Valley Beeline leads you from one to the other, inviting you to explore. This is a strong center, unique to St. Louis. But we also want strong communities, connected to the center and to each other. Protected bicycle and pedestrian pathways and support systems weave north and south to the neighborhoods, connecting them to these activities and to each other. We hope you enjoy looking through this book and can start to imagine this place anew.

Now we are ready to implement this vision. What you see in our design proposal is a framework which will be transformed by community engagement and input. The new spirit of St. Louis is one of inclusion, and we are committed to honoring this idea in the design process as well as in the final form. We will empower the broadest constituency to be clients and stewards of this project. We have honored the goals of the community as best we could, but are now eager to discuss it with the community, hear their comments, and make adjustments. We are eager to engage with the many agencies who must approve this project and be partners in its implementation. We are eager to move from concept to real project design, creating places that are uniquely St. Louis. We are eager to work with artists—to get them working with us and the community even before construction begins, as a way to learn more about the place, engage with the community, and build momentum.

W Architecture makes visions work This team knows how to move from ideas to reality, finding a design appropriate to this particular community’s needs and desires. This project is only just beginning, and our team would like to continue to work on it together. We commit our energy and talent for the long haul required to bring this vision to fruition.

We have abided by the rules of the competition, and look forward to presenting our design to the public and the jury. We want to work together to help guide the new energy you are bringing to St. Louis and form a new city for the enjoyment of all and for the next generations!

Sincerely,

Barbara Wilks, FAIA, FASLA Principal bwilks@w-architecture.com

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Thank you to the Stakeholders GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER • ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAWRENCE GROUP • GREEN STREET ST. LOUIS • GRAND CENTER, INC. FOREST PARK FOREVER • ARCH TO PARK COLLABORATIVE GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION • CITY OF ST. LOUIS EX OFFICIO

CONTENTS

1 Letter of Submittal

2 Contents

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The New City Experience

51 4 Response to Design and Community Goals

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The Valley Beeline

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Demonstrating the Benefits

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The Pond

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Journeys on Chouteau Greenway

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Turpin’s Porch

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Journey One

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3 Concept Description

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Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District

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Journey Two

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Background

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Poplar Street Bridge Park

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Journey Three

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Our Design Approach

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Chouteau Overpass

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Journey Four

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Reclaim the Valley for Everyone

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Western Gateway Mall

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Journey Five

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The New East-West Experience

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Chestnut Street Park

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Journey Six

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The New North-South Experience

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Ewing Wetlands MetroLink Station

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Journey Seven

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Investment in Seed Neighborhoods

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Community Hub

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Spring Avenue Corridor

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Sarah Seed Investment

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Clayton Avenue Innovation Park at Cortex

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Forest Park Market Greenway

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Three Bridges to Forest Park at Kingshighway

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Lindell Boulevard at Washington University in St. Louis

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5 Copy of Exhibition Boards

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6 Implementation Strategies

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7 Program Recommendations

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8 Team Composition

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CONCEPT DESCRIPTION

CONCEPT DESCRIPTION | 1

BACKGROUND

Building on the momentum of the recently completed public space initiatives, including re-wilding the lake system in Forest Park and renovating the Arch Grounds and Kiener Plaza, this competition will further strengthen the public realm as a connective tissue and diverse place for all St. Louisans to enjoy and cherish.

These initiatives at either end of the city are key places of civic identity. Between is a loose collection of important centers of activity­—Grand Center Arts District, the St. Louis University and Harris-Stowe State University, Cortex, The Grove, BJC, and Washington University Medical Center among others. Neighborhoods are similarly floating north and south, such as the Delmar Loop and The Gate District.

This “city of islands” needs cohesion.

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The competition is charged with connecting the disparate pieces, from the Park to the Arch, to create a diverse central core inviting to all. Strongly held value systems are often brought into focus over public discussions about city planning. We see our role as equal parts listener, observer, and designer. We have carefully read through and absorbed the archive of materials collected, doing our best to understand the various voices, needs and desires, and facilitating a solution by sifting through words and existing conditions to uncover the essential. Our key role is to build consensus around the forms that embody the values of a whole community, by engaging the past as well as looking to a sustainable and exciting future.

“I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of the terror of discrimination.”

—Josephine Baker

City on the Rivers St. Louis has always been connected to its rivers. Early Native American mound builders settled on the east shore of the Mississippi across from current St. Louis in one of the largest settlements in preColumbian America. Modern St. Louis was founded by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau in 1764 on the higher western banks of the Mississippi just below the confluence of the Missouri, as a trading post. With its connection through the Ohio River to the east, the Mississippi to the south and north, and the Missouri to the west, St. Louis became the main base of interregional trade, and the gateway to the west. This idea became concrete when the Arch opened in 1967, and now the Arch Grounds provides a wonderful gathering place and viewing area of the river.

City of Racial Divides and Inequities “The problem of the twentieth century” wrote W. E. B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, “is the problem of the color line.” The racial history of St. Louis exemplifies separatism and inequity, in the tangible and intangible sense. The Missouri Compromise brought Missouri into the United States as a slave state. The Dred Scott case in the 1850s is one of many historical moments highlighting the tension between the Dred Scott races in St. Louis.

Scott Joplin Mill Creek Valley was an AfricanAmerican district from the mid-1800s through the turn of the century. A mixed-use area of homes, tenements, shops, dance halls, and jazz clubs, it

called it a “Negro removal project.” The net result displaced thousands, reinforced north-south racial divisions, and dealt a final death blow to a center of AfricanAmerican culture. This was a cultural and ecological disaster for St. Louis.

supported artists including Scott Joplin, W. C. Handy, and Josephine Baker. Its population grew markedly after World War II, as the city’s black population surged.

In 1954, the St. Louis electorate passed a bond issue to redevelop the area. Some 20,000 people lived from Market and Vandeventer to the Mississippi River, and between 20th and Grand, extending south from Olive to the railroad tracks.

95 percent of them were black.

Demolition of the area began in 1959 to make way for Laclede Town, Grand Towers, US-40, and a 22-acre extension by the St. Louis University onto the Civil War-era Camp Jackson site.

Nearly forty churches were razed in the process. When the Land Clearance and Redevelopment Authority started demolishing blocks of Mill Creek Valley with bond issue money, the NAACP

These moments of tension persisted throughout the history of St. Louis, most recently in Ferguson, and equity is a major theme of this competition.

We believe bringing this void back to life is the first step towards a more equitable and sustainable St. Louis.

The Void at the Center Today, the center of the city is a virtual desert—void of green and people.

Most black residents live to the north of the center, with some integrated neighborhoods to the south, and white elsewhere.

The neighborhoods in Mill Creek Valley including Laclede Town have been erased, bridged over with highways and elevated streets, and the once verdant land is paved over with impervious concrete, cut with railroad tracks and dusty roads.

To some, this place is a scar, literally and figuratively, and it divides St. Louis. Now it is time to acknowledge the pain and move forward to make a city built on the principles of unity and intentional equity.

We believe bringing this void back to life is the first step towards a more equitable and sustainable St. Louis.

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OUR DESIGN APPROACH

We propose a Framework linking Forest Park to the Arch, the Neighborhoods to the Center and to each other, with diverse Public Spaces along the way.

One City, A Vision of a Strong, Connected City

The Framework

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Hiding in the physical structure of St. Louis is the potential for a new way of seeing the city. The “city of islands” is connected by the valley between them, and our project reclaims the valley as a new framework for community movement and engagement.

A framework of strong east-west connections—streets and pathways for cars, cyclists, and pedestrians—links the Arch Grounds with Forest Park, and strong, green ribbons north and south connect to the neighborhoods. These join the center to the two large parks, north and south, Fairground Park and Tower Grove Park.

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This framework is a scaffold for worldclass equitable resilient St. Louis for the 21st century.

A strong center with strong, connected neighborhoods marks the beginning of our vision.

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The framework—green ribbons of movement and engagement—creates new connections and experiences that make the whole and equitable, strong and connected city diagram real. This grid breaks down into east-west and northsouth connections and experiences that join the neighborhoods to the center and to each other.

Strategic Focus Areas To create this vision of a strong, connected city, we see three strategic focus areas, A, B and C, plus a fourth, D, that is outside the scope of the project.

This diagram shows our focus areas placed between the current centers of activity that exist for this proposal. Areas A and C fill the big gaps in the continuous urban fabric with new destinations and mixed development. Area B links

the central core with north city. These neighborhoods, long suffering from disinvestment, displacement, and distrust, are beginning to show signs of renewal.

Our plan builds on and encourages reinvestment through innovative methods of community engagement. Area D is outside the scope of this project, but indicates the necessity of investing in Fairground Park to complete the diagram of a whole and equitable, strong and connected city.

RECLAIM THE VALLEY FOR EVERYONE

Our plan reclaims the valley for people and makes it a new and vital center. The valley becomes a place joining ecology, art, history, and culture with everyday experience.

One, an ecological pathway for cyclists and pedestrians, named the Valley Beeline, because it provides a shortcut across GRG’s River Ring; and Two, the Forest Park Market Greenway, a beautiful civic street with a separated bicycle and pedestrian pathway.

The New East-West Experience 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 to the former city of hills. Today the valley is devoted to transportation networks, with MetroLink, the railroads and the highway taking priority as this east-west corridor divides the city north and south.

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

Above, current topographic model showing the valley watershed.

changed, we would like to bring back its memory, and hopefully restore some of its soul as it is a place where all people, especially African-Americans, feel at home.

Special places and events, many of which reengage with water, are located at intervals that keep people flowing from one to the other, in an ever-changing landscape. We propose making public spaces that become Common Ground, safe social spaces like Forest Park, Tower Grove Park, and Citygarden, where people play, eat, listen to music, celebrate, dance, interact with art, and talk. Each will have a unique combination of water, greenspace, gathering space, and amenities. This is where St. Louis comes together and reconnects as One City, no longer divided.

The New North-South Experience

Revealing the Invisible The first step of our plan reclaims the valley for everyone and makes it a new and vital center, increasing access and providing places for engagement. The valley becomes a series of connected places making ecology, art, history, and culture part of everyday experience.

We propose two East-West connectors to link the Arch Grounds and Forest Park:

A Vibrant Mosaic The second step is to establish a north-south street network to increase access to the valley center and to the neighborhoods. These north-south connectors provide safe passage, by bicycle or on foot, to the destinations in the center and to the neighborhoods north and south.

Investment for Strong Neighborhoods, Stronger City Strong neighborhoods make a stronger city. We recommend direct investment in the neighborhoods, especially those in north city which have long been neglected. Investment in public infrastructure, amenities, and potential new projects that benefit current residents will be determined though community engagement. We will engage neighbors to think about sustainably built environments, art projects, community gardens, and policies that could include housing-focused strategies such as inclusionary zoning requirements, a greenlining fund to support first-time home ownership, the creation of a community land trust for affordable housing, and expanded support for home repair for income-qualified households.

Art Unites All and Makes a World-Class Statement Art is a fundamental part of St. Louis, and an integral part of our proposal. Art should be infused everywhere, broadening access, and bringing enjoyment to all St. Louisans. The city 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.

The isolated islands have underlying connections which are revealed by the valley form and activity—over time creating a vibrant mosaic.

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THE NEW EAST-WEST EXPERIENCE

LINKING THE ARCH AND FOREST PARK IN MILL CREEK VALLEY

The proposed greenway makes numerous strategic links with the mobility systems to ensure continuity and convenience for both recreational and commuter functions.

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INTERLOCKING SYSTEMS

We have also increased access to MetroLink and valley bicycle and pedestrian systems by using the on-grade roadways which slope down to the valley floor as “gateways”. These dead-end streets are given new life, connecting to this important resource. Some of them are extended with protected crossings across the tracks to the southern neighborhoods. This expands access to the system and increases ridership.

• Off-street dedicated cycle lanes, adjacent to sidewalks, provide connectivity into the urban area and serve the most frequently accessed destinations and established commuter desire lines, chiefly north-south.

• A segregated off-street recreational route integrated with a linear parkland environment. (The Valley Beeline) • Provision of frequent rest areas, bicycle parking, and recreational amenities serving both bicyclists and pedestrians.

The station “Hubs” along the Greenway provide amenities such as food kiosks, restrooms, bicycle parking, and rental.

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Beginning with the mobility systems, we forge relationships between the bicycle, pedestrian, and MetroLink systems.

Weaving them together provides overlap in amenities, like restrooms, drinking fountains, rest areas, etc. Using MetroLink stations as “Hubs” to also orient and inform bicycle and pedestrian networks gets the most from the infrastructure and encourages use of the individual systems, as well as between systems.

The main bicycle and pedestrian pathway in Mill Creek Valley, the Valley Beeline, closely aligns with MetroLink and the underside of the interstate 40 highway structures. It is mostly independent of the roadway network. Aligning with MetroLink provides access to the stations, making them more integral to the fabric of the city. Using the space under the highway structure provides shade and shelter for pathway users. The gateway streets provide easy access to the new valley amenities without need of elevators and stairs. They also become corridors for movement of water into the valley storage areas, as explained in the Hydrology Systems section (see page 10).

The alignment of the LRT system and the position of stations provide a unique opportunity to integrate with the proposed Chouteau Greenway and associated developments within this corridor. This will provide enhanced accessibility to the corridor, unlock development potential along the route, and support an increase in MetroLink passengers.

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Great Rivers Greenway is developing multiple routes in the city to build out their master plan. Our proposed network makes numerous strategic links with this wider system to ensure continuity and convenience for both recreational and commuter functions. The following systems are proposed which together with the on-street “sharrows” (sharedlane markings) form the cycle network:

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Urban areas are all about relationships.

Finding relationships between the various systems of the city gives it inherent life. As city systems intersect, unique conditions form places that are unmistakably St. Louis. Our project combines green infrastructure and mobility systems with unique existing conditions to make a series of places at the heart of St. Louis.

We propose to create a walkway and bikeway network, starting in the valley and connecting east and west, and reaching out north and south to the neighborhoods. This network links a series of gathering places for multiple activities and temporary events.

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Our project combines green infrastructure and mobility systems to make a series of public spaces that blend nature with urban environments at the heart of St. Louis.

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The MetroLink system includes the future Cortex Innovation Community, Grand Avenue, and downtown stops in the valley. We propose to increase access to the stops via the gateway streets which connect pedestrians and bicyclists to the Valley Beeline, making stations more easily accessible to a greater number of people. We also propose adding a new stop at Ewing Avenue, closing the gap between Grand and Union Stations.

• Safe and accessible bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

The .25 and .5 mile walking distances from the proposed Ewing Station easily connects places.

It also fills a gap in the spaces between stations.

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THE HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM

We recommend creating a series of wetlands and lakes to capture the surface runoff from the surrounding areas.

system in the summer months when it is needed most to keep the Pond levels stable.

The Valley was historically the location of the Mill Creek and Chouteau Pond. The area is now nearly 90% impervious, with a network of combined sewer and storm water pipes below the surface.

We recommend reintroducing The Pond and a series of wetlands to capture the surface runoff from the surrounding areas including the highways above. This 500,000 square foot area can capture and retain a total of 9 million gallons of water and keep it from inundating the storm water system during times of heavy rainfall. This will help alleviate the current issues of dumping contaminated water into the Mississippi River and can provide some green infrastructure as required by the Project Clear cleanup.

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In addition to the Pond and wetlands, we propose “gateway” streets serving the valley be designed to include walkways and bikeways as well as bioswales to convey the rain and water down to the valley storage. These would include South Ewing Avenue, South 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 20th and 21st Streets, as well as North Sarah Avenue and Market Street.

A new stream will be created flowing from Chestnut Street along 20th Street, to the wetlands below. This stream in the new Chestnut Valley Park will convey water from the western half of the Gateway Mall as well as from the areas to the north. The stream will have a “natural” water feature for children to play in that will introduce additional water into the

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Our design uses the existing terrain and watersheds to create a green infrastructure capable of storing 29.6 million gallons of water.

As part of the overall analysis, a water budget will be performed to estimate the monthly runoff volume in the proposed waterways. It will be necessary to study the runoff volume fluctuation from month to month, and the correlating effect on water surface elevations. Appropriate methods of bank protection and vegetation will be selected according to hydrologic conditions. The benefit to the existing sewer system by the removal of this stormwater runoff will also be studied. Based on the hydrology of the St. Louis region, it is quite likely that the runoff contribution to the pond will need to be supplemented with potable water to maintain an ideal water surface elevation, serving to maintain an attractive, functional water feature regardless of the season. The play water features in the Chestnut Street Park will be designed to do just that.

We hope that a portion of this hydrologic system could be paid for through grants from the Metropolitan Sewer Department as a part of their $100 million green infrastructure initiative.

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ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Our plans restores the native habitats to create a healthier ecosystem for all species.

As a part of the maintenance and sustainable approach to the greenway design and management, we propose a compost facility. This facility would take the maintenance clippings as well as food waste from the area restaurants, and potentially also from the residents and provide composting services.

Leachate from the composting would be treated on site through a series of filters and wetlands. The compost is reused for maintenance or given to community gardeners. This could be a great learning experience for school children and potentially could be a partnership with one of the existing community agricultural organizations, such as the Sweet Potato Project.

The water will support a range of ecologies, from wetlands to lakes to areas between. The underlying geology is St. Louis limestone, resulting in a karst topography of wet and dry areas. Our project will reintroduce water to the valley floor and allow it to permeate.

We anticipate three ecologies based on topography and native plant communities:

Upland deciduous woodlands—mostly of oak with a diversity of other species will be the palette for the north-south streets. Trees will bring shade and habitat especially to the northern neighborhoods.

Chestnut Street Park—a forested maple canopy with clumps of river birch in more open areas. A stream conveys the water from the Gateway Mall to the Pond, and adds potable water in the summer as required through the water play feature.

The Mill Creek Valley—a prairie with dry transitioning to wet grassland areas with sassafras groves and shores with American Sycamore and willows.

This valley landscape will attract birds from the Mississippi Flyway as well as pollinators, fish, and other small animals.

W Architecture & Landscape Architecture has successfully created wetlands and streams in other projects, bringing native habitats back to the city for all species to enjoy.

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VALLEY LAND USES

Land uses in the neighborhoods, especially on existing vacant lots, will also continue to grow and change with increased access. How this investment will be directed is a foundational part of our engagement with the community in the next part of the competition, should we proceed. North-south connector streets were chosen for their close proximity to existing community assets, like schools, churches, and other institutions.

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The Ewing Avenue, the Cortex Innovation Community, and Grand Avenue MetroLink stops are all situated in the largely now “invisible” area between the highway and the railroad. This area is typically low-density industry. Our proposal is to encourage a greater mix of uses in this area over time, which will be served by the new pedestrian, bicycle, and MetroLink networks. Housing, office, and live-work studios will blend together with the new civic spaces to make these areas a vibrant and visible part of the city.

We have proposed that mixed-income housing be constructed on the ridge at the end of the Gateway Mall on 22nd Street, overlooking Chestnut Street Park with great views to the Arch.

The area below the Arch grounds, including the historic Chouteau’s Landing, is also proposed as a mixed-use area, with a heavy component of residential.

This residential development should be a FOREST mix of incomes and types, catering to aPARK broad constituency. The location close to the river, downtown, and the amenities of the proposed Mill Creek Valley, makes living here highly desirable.

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Over time, the plan is to create desirable mixed uses in the center with housing, greenspace, businesses, cafés, restaurants, shops, artist studios, performing arts venues—all places where all people feel they belong.

To better understand the 4.5 miles between 0.5 Park and 1 Miles Forest the River, we compared it with NYC. It turns out that Central Park is also about 4.5 miles from Battery Park!

The big difference is that in New York, there are multiple parks between the two, (Washington Square, Union Square, Bryant Park, Broadway with its smaller parks, etc.) providing a series of events for the traveler

or resident. In St. Louis, there is a void.

St. Louis does have multiple neighborhood parks, especially in South City, but not in the center. As a result, there are also few residents here. It is also interesting that St. Louis extends so far north and south, whereas Manhattan is constrained by the rivers, which also have parks along them.

RECREATIONAL USES

The bicycle and pedestrian network is the core of a new recreational network, indoor and outdoor. The outdoor component is centered on the new hydrologic features, The Pond, and the wetlands. The Pond provides a place for human-powered craft, like kayaks and canoes, available from a new public boathouse. Ecology walks are another recreational and educational use around the lake and wetlands. Chestnut Street Park will have outdoor water play in a natural style water feature, as well as natural play features. In the winter, ice skating will occupy the same space at the end of the Gateway Mall.

CULTURAL USES

Urban style hardscape parks will also be incorporated under portions of the elevated highway, along Clayton Avenue and off Vandeventer, and at the base of the Arch Grounds. These could include skateparks, basketball courts, handball courts, climbing walls, and other uses as desired by the community. The grand spaces under the highways make these especially good spaces for tournaments, other group events, and festivals.

While the erased African-American neighborhood in Mill Creek Valley can never be replaced, we propose to build on the history of the performing arts and music to create a new community performance center and outdoor amphitheater at the end of the Gateway Mall near the former location of the Rosebud Café and The Booker T. Washington Theater, both owned by the Turpin family (see inset, far right).

Turpin’s Porch, for example, is a proposed name for a long, wide stretch of the Valley Beeline, which connects the natural environments of Chestnut Street Park and the Pond, to the urban recreation areas near the river south of the Arch Grounds, and near Cortex Innovation Community under Clayton Avenue. The wide promenade of Turpin’s Porch can also be the home of festivals and events (see page 22).

We propose that the names of some of these past residents, like Josephine Baker who grew up here, or the Turpins, be incorporated in the new place names.

Art is an essential component of our plan, infused at every level and in all its many forms (see page 83).

The Turpins Thomas Turpin, the “father of St. Louis ragtime” was the owner of the Rosebud Café and an early composer of ragtime. His “Harlem Rag” is said to be the earliest published ragtime piece and his café was a meeting place and incubator of ragtime pianists.

His father, “honest John” Turpin and his brother, Charles, were owners of the Booker T. Washington Theater, where Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters and others performed at one of the first black owned theaters in the country which operated from 1912 to 1930. Josephine Baker, a Mill Creek Valley resident, slipped into the theater as a child to watch the performances.

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THE NEW NORTH-SOUTH EXPERIENCE

CONNECT THE NORTH AND SOUTH NEIGHBORHOODS

INVESTMENT IN SEED NEIGHBORHOODS

To accomplish this goal, we propose including key north-south streets as an integral part of the project, to connect St. Louis neighborhoods to the central corridor. Each of the north-south connector streets will have a shared street profile with separated bicycle and pedestrian lanes, landscaping, and lighting, creating a safer, more inviting, and inclusive journey from neighborhoods to the valley and to other neighborhoods.

Shared Spaces, Common Ground Great cities have great shared spaces— places that allow a collective culture to germinate, grow, and thrive. We need these spaces—Common Ground—to share our stories, ideas and aspirations; to join in support or protest; and to celebrate life. This is how cities develop a personality, an essence, a ‘vibe’, the kind of thing you hear about when your best friend returns from a trip to a new city. It’s a unique outward expression of who we are as a community, formed by creative exchange, dialogue, interaction, conversation, and mingling.

In St. Louis, we do not do enough mingling. Especially the kind of mingling that leads to understanding and acceptance. Without mingling, we surrender the opportunity to become the city we all deserve, a St. Louis that all can be proud to call home.

communities where their shared history has brought meaning and purpose to their lives. Chouteau Greenway offers a unique opportunity to examine our past, accept our failings, and share aspirations for the future of our city.

Equitable Access

We’ve watched half our city fall victim to short-sighted and prejudiced real estate practices and questionable public policies that led to disinvestment and neglect, leaving a scarred landscape, and creating a social and cultural divide that has bred mistrust.

And yet, there remain dedicated individuals and families that cling to the neighborhoods they love, the

The most important measure of success for Chouteau Greenway will be the extent to which all St. Louis residents and visitors have equitable access to enjoy the benefits of this new community asset.

The new spaces and places created along the Greenway will only be successful when everyone feels invited to mingle.

The proposed north-south connector streets—14th Street, 21st Street, Compton Avenue, Spring Avenue, Sarah Street, and Taylor Avenue—are intentionally not primary north-south vehicular routes— Jefferson Avenue, Grand Boulevard, Vandeventer Avenue, and Kingshighway Boulevard—separating most north-south bicycle and pedestrian traffic from the busiest automobile traffic arteries.

These streets are primarily residential in character and pedestrian in scale and connect the city’s north and south neighborhoods to the central corridor, and to each other. Connecting these neighborhoods to the central corridor will offer much needed safe and desirable options for traveling and exploring north and south through the city, creating numerous opportunities for restoring neglected properties as well as infill projects.

In 2015, the Indiana University Public Policy Institute conducted an economic impact assessment of the Cultural Trail in Indianapolis, Indiana, an 8-mile urban bicycle and pedestrian path running through downtown Indianapolis. Among the key findings of the assessment were: • An increase in property values within 500 feet of the Trail, between 2008 to 2014, in excess of $1B dollars; • User-reported spending and economic impact tied to Trail usage; and • Businesses located on the Trail have hired additional employees.

In St. Louis, along these north-south connector streets are existing and emerging neighborhoods where local business and community leaders have organized and coordinated efforts to spur new investment in residential and commercial development. Yet, they remain islands, isolated from the central corridor’s concentration of corporate, cultural, and institutional investment.

We propose investing in these neighborhoods as an integral part of the project. Working with neighborhood residents, we recommend a rigorous community engagement effort tasked with assessing and understanding the

unique needs of each of these isolated pockets of committed residents and preserving and celebrating their neighborhood identities through art, events, and projects. We will work with each neighborhood to deliver crucial missing pieces of their communities to allow them to thrive and grow—a grocery store, an early childhood education center, community gardens, parks, gathering spaces, public art, lighting, accessible and inviting places for people of all abilities to enjoy.

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INVESTMENT IN SEED NEIGHBORHOODS

Each neighborhood belongs to its residents.

Cities and people have a symbiotic relationship. One offers place, the other offers social context. Together, they form community and satisfy the basic human need of belonging.

The Seeds are areas of localized commitment to community—places in the city where individuals, families, business owners, or institutions have decided to stay, or locate, in spite of a history of disinvestment. Reinvestment in these neglected neighborhoods of St. Louis is critical to realizing St. Louis’ full potential as a city.

Just as cities have a collective vibe, they are layered and complex. Each neighborhood has its own history and develops its own personality. The community engagement process will facilitate and assist each Seed area in: • Identifying crucial missing pieces of their community, and targeting investment in those areas; • Developing strategies for averting gentrification and displacement; and • Leveraging the arts for preserving the history and unique culture of each Seed Neighborhood.

We have included a public policy expert on our team to make recommendations regarding housing-focused strategies

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New projects will be determined by the neighbors. Here are some ideas:

for racial and economic equity, including inclusionary zoning requirements, a greenlining fund to support first-time home ownership, the creation of a community land trust for affordable housing, and expanded support for home repair for income-qualified households.

Early childhood education, housing, cafés, shops, restaurants, artist studios, dance studios, community gardens, farm markets, orchards, and play areas.

Public amenities to refurbish existing streets: Separate cycle and pedestrian pathways, sidewalks, curbs, art, signage, history, lighting, water fountains, shade structures, landscaping, bicycle racks, paving, emergency phones, WIFI, and other elements determined through neighborhood engagement.

As part of this plan, we propose finding out what residents want through community engagement to make meaningful investments in these neighborhoods.

Proactive public policies will be proposed to ensure residents remain in their neighborhoods.

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THE NEW CITY EXPERIENCE

CONNECTIONS TO WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Our plan links east and west, north and south, to make One City, Belonging to All.

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Our plan creates a system of linked public spaces—Common Ground. It’s where we get together and reconnect as One City, no longer divided.

On the following pages, we will explore the exciting possibilities for key new places and districts in the valley.

The Valley Beeline The Valley Beeline connects the Arch Grounds to Forest Park through the valley wetlands. Juxtaposed against the rail yards and industry, this new ecological pathway follows the valley floor. It brings together urban and nature experiences in a choreographed sequence of diverse events.

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This urban promenade, around 30 feet wide and almost 1.5 miles long, can be used by bicyclists and pedestrians and connects the Arch Grounds with Union Station and Chestnut Street Park to the west.

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.

Spring Avenue is a critical link stretching from Fairgrounds Park to Tower Grove Park. Spring Avenue will have safe bicycle and improved pedestrian pathways continuously along the street allowing safe passage north and south, including to the Grand Avenue Metrolink Station.

Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District

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One of several “Seed” Neighborhoods where direct investment is intended to help them bloom through improvements planned in conjunction with the community. These Seed Neighborhoods are all on the north-south protected pathways which connect to the new activities in the center of town as well as to other neighborhoods.

Three new ways to get across busy Kingshighway provide direct access to the park’s network of pathways and a renovated Steinberg Skating Rink. The western edge of Kingshighway at the park is improved with new sidewalks and plantings and links to upgrades on Lindell.

Clayton Avenue Innovation Park at Cortex

Lindell Boulevard and Connection to Washington University in St. Louis

Clayton Avenue Innovation Park is on the Valley Beeline on both sides of Vandeventer Avenue. Protected by the highway above, activities like basketball, skateparks, and climbing exist alongside food trucks and festival areas.

A gracious, widened park edge along Lindell Boulevard allows bicyclists and pedestrians safe, continuous passage and connects to the main entry of Washington University.

Ramp to Grand Avenue Station East of The Pond towards the river is a new downtown neighborhood, Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District.

The Pond

Popular Street Bridge Park

The Pond is a new destination and permanent water body in the heart of downtown. Situated just southwest of Busch Stadium, it provides an oasis of greenery and a place of respite to enjoy before or after the game, before or after work, on the weekends, or in the evenings. It also improves the ecology of the city and is a key feature of our proposed new, green stormwater management system.

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.

Chouteau Overpass Chouteau Overpass uses an abandoned railway trestle to provide pedestrian and bicycle 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.

The Gateway Mall ends in Chestnut Street Park. 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.

Ewing Wetlands and MetroLink Station Ewing Avenue provides on-grade access to the Valley Beeline and wetlands. The new MetroLink Station is less than a half mile from Market Street.

Community Hub The Community Hub, located at Compton Avenue on the Forest Park Market Greenway, is an inside / outside recreational and community facility with activities like swimming, basketball, exercise rooms, and places for community meetings.

The Spring Avenue Connector is an elevated pathway for bicyclists and pedestrians connecting North and South Spring Avenues over the highway and rail yards. A wide ramp from this connector allows easy access to Grand Avenue MetroLink Station.

North Spring Avenue North Spring Avenue connects the Valley Beeline, St. Louis University, and Grand Center Arts District to Fairgrounds Park along a protected bicycle and pedestrian pathway.

Three Bridges to Forest Park at Kingshighway

Forest Park Market Greenway Forest Park Market Greenway is a beautiful civic street with a separated bicycle and pedestrian pathway on Forest Park Avenue and Market Street, connecting Forest Park with the Arch Grounds.

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THE VALLEY BEELINE

We propose an ecological pathway, a direct shortcut across GRG’s River Ring, from the Arch to Washington University in St. Louis.

The Valley Beeline Juxtaposed against the rail yards and industry, a new ecological pathway follows the valley floor. The Valley Beeline, a dedicated path for cyclists and pedestrians, is centered around engagement with the water and the various native ecologies it produces.

From ponds to wetlands, these are unique, natural experiences in the heart of the city. The Valley Beeline is a 4.5 mile journey from the Mississippi Riverfront where the city was founded, past the rail yards and industry in the valley, to the modern day center of innovation at Cortex and Washington University Medical Center and on to Forest Park. With this journey comes a new understanding of the city, its unique culture, and the reciprocity between

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THE POND

The Pond is an oasis and destination in the heart of the city for kayaking, fishing, birdwatching, and picnicking.

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“front door” to the Pond, it will attract new investment to the north, towards Market Street. Around the Pond, on the south shore, is a smaller pathway that is for pedestrians or birdwatchers, school children or others wishing to enjoy the native plants and wildlife attracted to the water. Educational signage will be available on this Ecology Walk. A café overlooking the Pond and adjacent to 7th Avenue provides a snack any time of day and a beautiful place to watch the sunset over the Pond.

The Pond is also the center of human powered boating—kayaks, canoes, paddleboards, and paddleboats. This is supported by a public boathouse and other vendors which are opportunities for local residents to start new businesses.

The Pond will be designed to expand its water storage capacity during times of heavy rainfall.

W Architecture & Landscape Architecture has created new wetlands and stream features in other urban projects.

As these photos of our designed features suggest, they add a wonderful opportunity to enjoy nature in the heart of the city.

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TURPIN’S PORCH

A simple move to reclaim the plaza beneath Highway I-64/40 creates a vibrant public space for viewing The Pond or events that bring people together.

Turpin’s Porch This urban promenade, around 30 feet wide and almost 1.5 miles long can be used by bicycles and pedestrians.

It is situated under the highway, using its dramatic structure for shade and protection. It reaches from the Arch Grounds and Poplar Street Bridge Park, to Union Station and Chestnut Street Park to the west. It is a place for gathering and promenading, and for festivals and events. This is also a major site for art installations, both permanent and temporary. As such, we believe Turpin’s Porch will become a key part of the infrastructure for downtown gathering and an alternative to the Gateway Mall and its more formal setting. It’s a place to just sit with friends and watch the sunset or join the crowds gathering at weekend festivals or before the game.

While the design details of the Porch surfaces and amenities will develop during the design process, the clarity of the path and the variety of experiences it encounters and connects exemplifies the urban experience. It is on grade and weaves between the changing structure of the highway. In one section, east of the stadium, a beautiful pedestrian bridge would soar over Memorial Drive (I-70).

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To the east of the Pond towards the river, is a new downtown neighborhood, Chouteau’s Landing, bounded on the south by Chouteau Avenue and on the north by the Poplar Street Bridge.

Building off the core of existing historic structures, which will remain, the surrounding vacant lots can support new commercial and residential uses along with ground floor retail and restaurants,

creating a neighborhood connecting the Pond and the Mississippi. This neighborhood is compact and walkable, and will be a great place to stroll through to get to the river, or to live and/or work.

Chouteau Avenue, ending at the Graffiti Wall, is a gateway to the river. The other east-west streets in the neighborhood, Gratiot and Cedar, are intimate, invite strolling, and will slope up to overlooks at the top of the flood wall, while parking

is beneath. The east-west orientation of the streets and open space create flow between the river and the Pond. The new developments will also have space for parking in the area behind the flood wall to accommodate some of the lost surface parking.

POPLAR STREET BRIDGE PARK

This active park under the Poplar Street Bridge is a place for play and gathering downtown. Everyone is invited.

Poplar Street Bridge Park Turpin’s Porch threads over the highway and ends in this neighborhood, at a wonderful hardscape park, Poplar Street Bridge Park, situated under the magnificently tall highway structure. Here basketball, skateboarding, and other sports spill out just south of the Arch Grounds.

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CHOUTEAU OVERPASS Another way to see the Mississippi River, is to take the Chouteau Overpass, which juts out over the river 40 feet in the air.

From 7th Street, you can ramp up gently on the elevated promenade, or it can be accessed from elevators at the end of 4th Street or Lombard.

The various new, adjacent developments connect to this walkway.

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Reclaim the unused trestle for bicyclists and pedestrians in the revitalized Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District.

This lookout over the Mississippi River, plus new housing, shops, cafĂŠs, and gathering spaces make this a unique city neighborhood for St. Louis.

District Energy

NEW RIVERFRONT RENDERING

Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District is an ideal place to institute a district energy system. This is an efficient and sustainable way to lower maintenance costs, provide efficient delivery of heating and cooling, increase price stability, provide enhanced comfort, and reduce the carbon footprint. We propose to harvest the thermal energy of the river by implementing water source heat pumps connected to a district energy network.

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WESTERN GATEWAY MALL

Western Gateway Mall and Chestnut Street Park form the western edge of Downtown with new outdoor and indoor performing arts spaces and a natural stream park.

Water starts being collected in the Western Gateway Mall in bioswales. New hard surfaces made of permeable pavers allow for additional water collection.

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Josephine’s, a new performing arts facility, honors Josephine Baker, who performed nearby in historic Chestnut Valley at Tom Turpin’s legendary Rosebud Café.

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such as stormwater gardens. This new series of spaces will provide activities for the new residents of the area as well as an educational facility for schools on the POP LAR ST B importance of stormwater management.

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The Western Gateway Mall extends to the north end of Chestnut Street Park, and brings the experience of nature into the city.

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OVERLOOK At the west end of the Mall, a new The mall at this western end will be community performing arts facility, carefully renovated toCHOUTEAU includeOVERPASS picnicking,CHOUT Josephine’s, will overlookCHOUTEAU a large EA UA OVERLOOK VE playgrounds, and other uses tucked lawn, which can be used for outdoor between the trees, incorporating the performances. The new Rosebud Café is MAC ARTH UR Ban existing fountains, in a new informal open here all year long, providing RIDG E organization introducing rain gardens, amenity to residents, office workers, and other best management practices, and visitors.

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The Downtown Loop is a 3-mile journey for pedestrians or bicyclists. The path CHOU TEAU AVE travels from the Arch Grounds along the Gateway Mall to Chestnut Street Park, south across the park to Turpin’s Porch, along the Pond and back to the Arch Grounds. This loop might be one of the first phases to be completed for this project, and as a first phase, can be completed with both permanent and temporary constructions.

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CHESTNUT STREET PARK

This park restores the natural ecology of the land with a stream that provides a place for water play in the warmer months and ice skating in the winter.

Chestnut Street Park Chestnut Street Park runs north and south and connects the Gateway Mall to the wetlands and lakes in the Valley.

A proposed “stream” nature waterplay feature, which converts in the winter to ice skating, flows around an island from the foot of this lawn into a maple woodland. This stream continues down the hollow, conveying water to the wetlands below and providing an intimate, nature experience for pedestrians who linger along its banks.

Turning back east, they will find the end of Turpin’s Porch shaded beneath the highway at the wetlands’ edge.

New housing nestled at the western edge of the park overlooks the natural environment and offers a magnificent view down the Gateway Mall to the Arch.

A new housing development overlooks the park.

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EWING WETLANDS METROLINK STATION

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The valley ponds and wetlands are green infrastructure, storing and cleaning water. Native plants attract wildlife, and the environment becomes a recreational destination in the heart of the city.

THE SHELDON

We propose a new MetroLink station to fill the gap between Grand Avenue and Union Station providing access to office workers and the nearby campus populations, and a nice place to have lunch.

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The wetlands can be accessed by a ECOLOGY WALK CAFE the rail yards pedestrian bridgePOND across to Chouteau Avenue and the south Ewing Avenue provides on-grade access CHO neighborhoods, potentially expanding UTEA U AVE to the Valley Beeline and new wetlands in MetroLink ridership. the valley between the existing railroad tracks. We also propose a new MetroLink We will create a bioswale alongside stop here, with the Wells Fargo office Ewing Avenue “gateway” to channel CHOUTEAU campus on Market Street less than a water from the upland area into the OVERPASS walkable .5 mile away, as well as Harriswetland.

Stowe State University and other future developments in this area between existing stops.

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We’ve imagined a wonderful new place to meet, play, gather, and mingle—Common Ground, where people come together, no longer divided.

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and its activity would be a new focal Realignment of this interchange at point where Market Street and Forest Compton Avenue will require much more RESTAURANT STADIUM Park Avenue join together, an important study, PIER investigation, and community link along this civic axis. As reorganizing engagement. OurTURPIN’S preliminary studies PORCH this interchange and gaining approvals point to its feasibility, and similar to the will take some time, we see this as a later THE POND planned realignment of 21st Street, PEDESTRIAN it will BRI POPLAR S phase of development. Conversations open up land for community investment.PARK ECOLOGY WALK with the community can help us find POND CAFE spaces for important community activities in earlier phases located in CHOand Chestnut Street Park UTEA The Pond.

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The Community Hub is an inside/outside recreational and community facility located at Compton Avenue and Market Street in the former highway interchange.

As the visual terminus to Market Street, it brings people into a plaza bursting with activity. Seat steps facing back towards the Arch allow an overview of the space and views up and down into all sorts of activities happening inside the collection of buildings. This collection of buildings

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SPRING AVENUE CORRIDOR

The seat steps from the Spring Avenue Connection access a plaza and a large bioswale which collects water from the highway.

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The Spring Avenue Connector provides access between City Foundry, the Armory, St. Louis University and Medical Center, the Grand Avenue MetroLink Station and the experiences along the Valley Beeline.

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A renovated trestle takes pedestrians and bicyclists from City Foundry, over Vandeventer to IKEA and the Clayton

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Innovation Park, which is on the hill under the highway. Next to City Foundry, MARRIOTT under the highway on the east side of Vandeventer and along Market Street, is another open space that can be used as a festival grounds and picnic area for food trucks.

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Grand Center MetroLink stop, providing convenient access. The Connector has several parts that are woven together to form an interesting design, including an enclosed tube going over the highway, PROPOSED EWING AVE open walkways and ramps, as well as a large stair descending to a plaza at the foot of City Foundry which can be used as a gathering space.

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Armory developments, and St. Louis University Medical Center to the south.

These areas are currently separated by the highway and a grade change. Using Spring Avenue is a critical link, this grade change at the end of North connecting Tower Grove Park with Spring Avenue as a springboard for a new Fairgrounds Park. We propose to create pedestrian bridge over and under the CHOU Avenue Connector safe bicycle and pedestrian pathways highway, The Spring TEAU AVE continuously along this street. continues south over the railroad tracks SAINT LOUIS to property owned by St. Louis University UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Closer to the center of town, Spring Medical Center. The Connector also Avenue connects St. Louis University provides access to the second floor of to the north, with City Foundry and the the Armory and has a ramp down to the

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Spring Avenue and The Armory / City Foundry Developments / St. Louis University / Grand Center Arts District

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RAMP TO GRAND AVENUE STATION

A short cut allows easy access to the Grand Avenue MetroLink Station and makes navigating from St. Louis University to the Medical Center safe and fun.

The ramp from the Spring Avenue Connector takes people down to the Valley Beeline and the Grand Avenue MetroLink Station.

SPRING AVENUE CONNECTS NORTH TO FAIRGROUND PARK AND SOUTH TO TOWER GROVE PARK

Linking people and neighborhoods is one of the most important parts of our plan.

Exploring, talking, meeting, and sharing makes a vibrant city, belonging to all.

Spring Avenue is one of the north-south connector streets in our framework.

Located about in the center of the 4.5 miles from the Arch to the Park, it has greater importance as it also connects to the community parks of Tower Grove and Fairground Park.

Spring Avenue will have bicycle and pedestrian lanes separated from vehicular traffic. It will link to the Grand Center Arts district as well as the Armory and City Foundry, St. Louis University, and St. Louis University Medical Center.

It also connects the neighborhoods of Grand Center, Vandeventer, JeffVanderLou to the north, and with The Gate District, The Tiffany, Botanical Heights, and the Shaw neighborhoods to the south.

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SARAH SEED INVESTMENT

We believe investing in neighborhoods is vital to the success of Chouteau Greenway.

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The goal is sustainable, thriving communities for residents because strong and beloved neighborhoods make a stronger city.

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• Provide HaER strong north-south KIN G D connection, here, R along Sarah Street, CHAMBERS withPARK dedicated bicycle and pedestrian GEORGE WASHINGTON lighting, and pathways, landscaping, GARVER HOUSE amenities, creating a safer and more FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ST LOUIS inviting connection to the center and the Valley Beeline.

• Conduct a rigorous community HEALTH WORKS engagement process VILLAGE/INNOVATION that allows the DISTRICT neighborhood to identify crucial missing GATEWAY elements that will help ensure the MIDDLE SCHOOL continued growth and success of their neighborhood while maintaining their unique history and identity.

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A neighborhood of dedicated residents, businesses, and institutions is beginning to re-emerge around the intersection of SarahGRAND Street and the Hodiamont Trail, CENTER ARTS DISTRICT an area like many on the north and GRAND CENTER near-south sides that have a history of ARTS ACEDEMY CAM disinvestment, neglect, and decay.

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Adjacent to Cortex Innovation Community, under the highway, is a new park for hardscape activities such as climbing, skateboarding, and basketball.

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CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST LOUIS

New parks and pathways provide access to green space and will attract more infill housing, retail, and cafés to make this bio-tech center a liveable neighborhood.

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The trestle from City Foundry leads to the area beneath the highway which will become Clayton Avenue Innovation Park. Here a range of activities including basketball, skateboarding, rock climbing, and other hard surface recreation can CHOU TEAU AVE come together near Cortex Innovation SAINT LOUIS Community’s new developments.

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This will be a destination along the Valley Beeline, combining recreation, art, and nature with spaces to gather, perform, eat, and play.

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FOREST PARK MARKET GREENWAY

A major Civic Street connects the Arch along the Gateway Mall to Forest Park. A dedicated bicycle and pedestrian pathway makes the journey safe and beautiful.

Forest Park Avenue, connected seamlessly to Market Street, will be the second east-west connector and a continuous civic street, Forest Park Market Greenway. No such civic street currently connects Forest Park and the Arch Grounds. The existing Forest Park Avenue to Market Street is interrupted by a highway interchange at Compton Avenue. This break right in the center of this ceremonial connection between two ends of the city is disorienting and makes use by pedestrians or bicycles impossible.

A new civic complete street connecting these two important civic places will balance the transportation modes and be a place to stroll and to safely ride a bicycle. It will have a single civic character, replacing the current condition of edges of institutions and others marking their territory one after the other along the street. The street will connect these important institutions, and include new civic open spaces and uses, including the Community Hub at the southwest

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Compton Avenue and Market Street corner, in place of the grassy interchange.

This Hub will provide indoor recreational uses, community space, internet access, and other uses as desired by the community.

A second space on this civic street is Chestnut Street Park, which connects the Gateway Mall to the Valley. A community performing arts space will be set into this maple woodland, with an outdoor amphitheater and stream that allows for summer water play and winter skating.

While more studies will be needed to finalize the design of the complete street, based on the current underutilized capacity, our design converts the three travel lanes in each direction and adjacent parking lanes into two travel lanes with adjacent parking. In our current preferred option, the central median is expanded for a bicycle and pedestrian pathway, safe from the adjacent cars. The sidewalks adjacent to the buildings at the edges are also expanded to allow outdoor seating for cafĂŠs and more landscaping to increase permeability and provide shade.

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THREE BRIDGES TO FOREST PARK AT KINGSHIGHWAY

We propose three direct connectors to Forest Park at Kingshighway, and a new rooftop cafĂŠ at the remodeled Steinberg Skating Rink. Active all year, this revitalized amenity offers respite for visitors and staff from the medical center.

Bridges and Pathways Connect to Forest Park Kingshighway is a wide street that is hard to cross as a pedestrian. One bridge crosses from Children’s Hospital directly to Steinberg. Once you do cross the street to the Forest Park edge, there is no landing. We propose a widened, gracious edge continuously along Kingshighway, which is a place to stroll or ride your bicycle. It will also connect to pathways into the Park at Forest Park Avenue and the Barnes Jewish Hospital Plaza.

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Connections to Washington University in St. Louis The edge of Forest Park at Lindell Boulevard is similarly uninviting like Kingshighway. We propose a gracious widened edge along the entire length of the south side of Lindell, so that FOREST PARK pedestrians and bicyclists can easily walk or ride here, no matter where they enter the park. This pathway will connect to the new, formal entry plaza of Washington University in St. Louis and to GRG’s Centennial Greenway.

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DEMONSTRATING THE BENEFITS 1. Establish a Transformative Framework Our “reclaim the valley framework” is transformative as it brings the native ecology of the valley back to St. Louis, changing a barren, paved, impervious, uninhabited surface into a living part of the city, and creating a new series of places for all species to inhabit.

The East-West Experience Two new connectors link the Arch Grounds and Forest Park.

The Valley Beeline is the new pedestrian and bicycle pathway in this ecology, weaving below the highway above, providing a shaded continuous platform connecting various nodes of activity and potential development to one another. It also provides an “address” for new development at the new valley amenities—pond or wetlands.

Forest Park Market Greenway becomes a beautiful, civic street with a separated bicycle and pedestrian pathway. Three bridges to Forest Park at Kingshighway provide direct access to the park’s network of pathways and a renovated Steinberg skating rink and Rooftop Café.

The North-South Experience Streets with safe bicycle and pedestrian pathways link the neighborhoods to the center and each other.

Intersecting with these east-west connectors is a series of valley gateways, built off existing streets that descend ongrade to the valley floor. These directly connect the neighborhoods north and south with the valley amenities.

The north-south connectors include Taylor Avenue, Sarah Street, Spring Avenue, Compton Avenue, 21st Street, and 14th Street. These increase access between the valley center and the neighborhoods and create opportunities for community-directed investment and local, entrepreneurial growth.

These streets receive public amenities, such as separated bicycle and pedestrian pathways, sidewalks, curbs, art, signage, history, lighting, water fountains, seating, shade structures, landscaping, secure bicycle racks, paving, emergency phones, WIFI, and other elements determined though neighborhood engagement.

A gracious, widened park edge along Lindell Boulevard allows bicyclists and pedestrians safe, continuous passage to the main entry of Washington University in St. Louis.

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2. Catalyze Community Building

Common Ground Public spaces blend nature with human environments and dynamic activities, located at intervals that create flow from one to the other.

This is 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. These include Poplar Street Bridge Park, Turpin’s Porch, Western Gateway Mall, Chestnut Street Park, Ewing Wetlands, the Community Hub and Clayton Avenue Innovation Park.

Invest in Seed Neighborhoods 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, public, and institutional investment.

We have identified these as Seed Neighborhoods, which would benefit from public and private funds. Our

We have structured our community engagement and art and cultural planning processes to be integral to our proposal and designed to strengthen community building (see page 83).

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.

We propose to work directly with these 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.

Infuse Art Everywhere and Make a World-Class Statement 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 nationally and internationally.

In our proposed project, we have selected north-south streets for greenways that connect places of particular significance and activity in the neighborhoods to the center and east-west connectors. For instance, the 21st Street corridor will link the proposed Chestnut Street Park and its cultural and recreational activities with a commercial employment district downtown and to St. Louis Place Park and the surrounding neighborhoods to the north. All of these uses reinforce and help create strong neighborhoods for a stronger city.

Similarly, the Sarah Street corridor is strengthened through direct investment in this Seed Neighborhood and a strong north-south connector directly to Cortex Innovation Community.

In all of these corridors, we connect existing places of significance to new places of activity, and we connect neighborhoods to the center and to each other. We hope Chouteau Greenway becomes a catalyst for further community-centered development and safe access to the whole city.

Chouteau Greenway connects a range of uses, attracting a broad diversity of ages, ethnicities, and active living preferences.

From nature walks, to skating, to basketball, and picnicking, the greenway is a natural pathway connecting activities.

These uses can be further “tuned” to particular community needs during the community engagement activities that will follow. The particular aspects that make it a part of each neighborhood will vary, from a small playground adjacent to a school, to a community garden, to a gathering space. The framework, both in the landscape forms and in the pathways themselves, connects places—and builds community.

3. Contribute to the Regional System

4. Choreograph Urban Life

Our plan will provide a unique experience for Chouteau Greenway that combines the natural with the urban. This unique experience will draw people through the network to experience the many unique events. People living in the counties will now have new destinations in the city to visit. People in the neighborhoods will now have easy access at many points from north and south connectors to these destinations and to other neighborhoods.

Our plan brings together civic spaces with natural places. It brings together the neighborhoods with the center. It brings together children playing with adults strolling, places for large scale civic gathering with intimate places for individuals or families. Special celebrations at the Stadium with everyday activities “on the Porch.”

It brings together diverse populations, which might not ordinarily cross paths, engaged in unique activities. This is the essence of an equitable and livable city.

We do this by using the greenway as a pathway to link places, but also the greenway is often a place in itself which attracts people. For instance, Turpin’s Porch is a both a linear path and a linear space—a grand porch and place to gather and sit. It is also a site for temporary uses, markets, festivals, and food trucks.

These destinations create Common Ground where all people come together over shared activities—it’s where St. Louis gets together and reconnects as One City, no longer divided.

These interconnected events are best experienced as a pedestrian or as a cyclist—not from a vehicle—creating a healthier population that mingles and enjoys.

We have also made sure that the various experiences are not too far apart. When people are walking or biking, they need other visible destinations to pull them along to make them feel safe, unlike when they are in a car. The greenway is a catalyst connecting each new center of activity to each other, but also within each center of activity are multiple activities which are connected. For

instance, the Spring Avenue Connector links the Armory to City Foundry. But it also connects St. Louis University with St. Louis University Medical Center on a bicycle or pedestrian pathway that will have activities and food that attract students.

Sometimes uses spill out to the city on the north, other times they spill out to The Pond or the wetlands along the rail yards to the south and become lookout to The Pond, the activity on the rails, or the city. This choreography is in response to existing constraints, which are used to advantage to craft linked experiences.

The Porch leads to the Stadium, and then on to the Arch Grounds to the east where an urban hardscape park experience contrasts with the experience to the west, in the Chestnut Street Park, a more natural experience with water play that will cater to younger children. Past the park are a series of wetlands, the new Ewing Station with its connections to the Community Hub and to Harris-Stowe State University.

This area will start to fill in and become a new center of activity with offices, retail, and housing. On to the Armory and City Foundry, which are connected and

accessible from the greenway and the Grand MetroLink Station. Here, festival grounds, skateparks, basketball courts, and other hard surface play areas are found under the highway infrastructure.

The various changes of grade are seamlessly linked via a new pedestrian bridge over the highway linking the Armory and City Foundry, continuing on to the St. Louis University Medical Center.

A renovated trestle structure leads from City Foundry over Vandeventer to the play areas under the highway at Clayton Avenue Innovation Park. The Valley Beeline continues to Cortex Innovation Community, past the Washington University Medical Center and on to Forest Park and Washington University in St. Louis.

5. Create Diverse and Accessible Experiences

6. Provide a Safe and Secure Environment

Each of the various places and experiences described in this proposal is very different from one another.

Walking along The Pond is very different from watching basketball in the Poplar Street Bridge Park. We always ensure that any project we work on has at least ten different experiences within it, throughout the day and across the seasons. Then, within each experience should also be at least ten different experiences at a different scale. We call this framework “the power of ten.” At The Pond for instance, we can stroll along the Ecology Walk, rent a kayak or canoe, collect seeds at a botany class, check out Turpin’s Porch and the festival going on there, interact with a big sculpture, or have a bite to eat at the restaurant overlooking The Pond, just to name a few of the possibilities. At Poplar Street Bridge Park, we can play basketball, watch people playing, ride our bicycle, play on a huge net structure, skateboard, attend a yoga class, meet a friend, learn about the history of the place, or stop at a food truck for a snack.

Our network provides clear pathways where bicycles and pedestrians are separated safely from each other as well as from vehicles. Families can feel safe bringing their children out on the Valley Beeline and other pathways. The framework is structured with a network of intersecting loops at different scales which allows users to choose a path which suits their specific needs, but also provides a feeling of safety and security, as visibility is high and people can flow easily from one place to another—there is no fear of hitting a dead end. It allows for meandering, going ever farther as one gains confidence in widening circles.

Safety is also encouraged by increasing visibility in other ways, through appropriate lighting, planting and other security protocols, such as emergency phones. One of the goals for Chouteau Greenway is to increase the safety and attractiveness of a central infrastructure by ensuring that the network is properly lit at night, while still preserving the dark sky. Multiple studies have shown interrelations between improved lighting and an overall decrease in recorded crime levels. Appropriate lighting has the ability to support increased social control and community pride.

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DEMONSTRATING THE BENEFITS

7. Generate Economic Opportunities

8. Integrate Art and Culture

9. Improve Mobility and Connectivity

10. Shape a Sustainable Future

The new network of connections and places will bring more people together in various parts of St. Louis—as residents, workers, and tourists. This increase in people, both permanent and temporary, creates opportunities for new businesses and “pop-ups” to serve them. The new space for festivals creates opportunities for food trucks and other vendors.

The new places create spaces for art, both permanent and temporary and an opportunity for local artists. And the continued success of these places—their promotion of a healthy lifestyle—will attract people to St. Louis in general, creating a need for more housing, construction, and jobs.

Our art and culture plan provides a comprehensive program and multiple opportunities to work with local artists— right from the beginning, and to integrate art into all aspects of this project. Artists, as part of our team, will work with communities, through special events and projects. This will foster an appreciation of the shared history of the place as well as its future. We imagine the art will attract attention at a international level.

The seven journeys that are outlined at the end of this section (see page 59) are examples of ways this framework improves mobility and connectivity for all people. And creates great enjoyment!

The elements of sustainable strategy, listed below, help to create a healthy and sustainable city that will be a better home for our children and families.

Investment in the Seed Neighborhoods is intended to be a catalyst for local business, entrepreneurship, and community maker and artist studio spaces. These unique shops, cafés, and restaurants are major draws to a neighborhood and can create immediate buzz.

In our proposal, cultural and performing arts venues are integrated throughout the Chouteau Greenway, for example, a new performing arts center, Josephine’s, located at the Western Gateway Mall, to honor Josephine Baker. Event spaces like this would commemorate the importance of the area’s musical roots.

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Green Infrastructure The existing stormwater strategy in St. Louis consists mainly of “grey” measures such as catch basins, manholes, and subsurface pipe networks combining both stormwater and municipal wastewater. During storm events with heavy precipitation, combined sewers receive flows higher than the local water treatment plants are able to handle.

During such events, known as combined sewer overflows (CSOs), a mix of excess stormwater and untreated wastewater discharges directly into the city’s waterways, continuously polluting local waterbodies.

Our greenway proposal incorporates Green Infrastructure (GI) best practices to promote the natural movement of water by efficiently capturing and managing runoff from the highway, surrounding streets and buildings. Analysis of the

topography reveals the Chouteau area as a natural valley in between Forest Park to the river. Additional study of the terrain points to specific areas of the city that may be more susceptible to flooding during heavy precipitation due to their relative low elevation and lack of drainage paths. These hydrological characteristics can be used to tailor appropriate GI strategies to specific sites throughout the greenway area, influencing stormwater and programmatic functions.

The benefits of implementing green infrastructure within the urban environment are well known in terms of management of stormwater, environmental quality, habitat creation, social, and economic benefits.

The proposed GI features along the Greenway include: • Porous pavements • Variable width bioswales through streetscapes and along off-street routes to capture surface water from the path and adjacent landscape areas • Detention and retention basins to capture and temporarily store water

• Native tree planting and soft landscape treatments selected for their water cleansing qualities and habitat values • Removal of impermeable surfaces wherever possible • Infiltration trenches and soakaways where corridor widths are limited • Rain gardens, rain barrels and cisterns within public realm spaces • Green roofs and living walls on new structures • Artificial ponds and floodwater conveyance lakes • Continuous water treatment wetlands These stormwater management techniques mimic natural environmental services through use of small, costeffective features located throughout the site. Placement of features such as the series of proposed lakes through the linear park correspond with natural confluences of localized catchment basins identified through preliminary GIS based levels analysis of surface water flows and levels. Implementation of landscape areas managed in this way will allow for recharge and improvement of ground water while mimicking natural filtration and water cleansing processes.

In addition, removal of paved areas and replacement with soft landscape treatments can help tackle the urban heat island effect and support habitat creation.

Implementation and maintenance of GI assets can also be significantly lower than conventional engineering surface water systems.

As part of the site flood control strategy, certain areas of the valley have been identified as appropriate for allowing additional flood storage. A valley estuary is set at one of the lowest elevations on the site, and has the capacity to serve as an ecological lake park. While a permanent pool with lesser area will always be present at this location, a wider zone of allowable flood area can provide storage for runoff associated with larger storm events. This flood storage area will be designed to provide overflow for larger storm events, and runoff can flow into the surrounding gardens and wetlands of the lake.

Rainwater In St. Louis, rainfall is a fairly consistent source of water which can be captured for use. Normally, stormwater runoff from building roofs is piped underground and discharged overland or eventually into a body of water. Rather than piping and discharging this runoff, there are several benefits to capturing it and using it on-site for non-potable uses to reduce the overall potable water demand of Chouteau Greenway. Rainwater harvesting is the practice of capturing stormwater and storing it in a basin, cistern, or underground chamber.

Rainwater harvesting can be accomplished at a small scale (cisterns for buildings) or at a larger scale (underground chamber). One possible

use for harvested rainwater is to supplement water features throughout the Greenway. Another common use for harvested rainwater is irrigation of plants and landscaping. Water stored in the harvesting chamber can be pumped and distributed for irrigation throughout a large, open space park or a small lawn.

In addition to reducing potable water demand, rainwater harvesting will also alleviate increased stormwater runoff discharge, since a portion will remain on site for reuse.

Rainwater harvesting systems are implemented in a wide variety of contexts, from simple garden collection barrels to more sophisticated treatment and storage systems. A more formal design typically requires the components outlined in Table 1 (see below).

Table 1: Rainwater Harvesting Systems ELEMENT DESCRIPTION

Drainage collection system

Gutters, outlets, and downpipes to collect runoff from roofs or from paved areas where suitable

Preliminary treatment If required to remove pollutants from roads or parking lots. This could also system include a first-flush diverter or roof washing system.

Coarse filtration

Either in-pipe or in-line filters

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Tank with cleaning access, typically at lowest building level (although a high level secondary tank can be installed for gravity distribution)

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For flood storage; can lead to a sewer, infiltration basin, or other SWMP

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Either to the storage tank or the distribution pump

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Optional fine filtration and disinfection (only where required, as this significantly increases overall energy demand)

Distribution system

Gravity or pressure pipeworks leading to the distribution network to supply the design uses (e.g., toilets, washing machines, irrigation)

Solar technologies such as rooftop photovoltaics (PV) can capture energy from the sun, which is a reliable and renewable energy source. By harvesting and utilizing renewable sources, the demand on the local St. Louis electrical grid and the reliance on other fuel sources can be greatly reduced. It is also a beneficial way to reduce Chouteau Greenway’s carbon footprint and overall greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy The City of St. Louis is actively working towards a sustainable triple bottom line and to secure a clean energy future. Chouteau Greenway is a great opportunity to deeply integrate essential parts of St. Louis into the City’s stated goals of achieving a citywide 80% greenhouse gas emission reduction by 2050, other climate change mitigation strategies, and environmental protection policies. By integrating the following strategies into the project, Chouteau Greenway will be an energy-independent, sustainable, and emissions-free place for transportation, social events, and businesses.

• Solar PV panels on roof tops, canopies and integrated into solar bicycle paths

Any structural rooftops connected to the greenway, such as comfort stations, transportation hubs and parking canopies are perfect opportunities to incorporate solar PV. As seen in Europe and China, solar panels can also be integrated into the ground to create a transparent solar bicycle path. The clean energy that is generated through solar panels can be used to power electrical loads such as lighting along the greenway, or it can be fed back into the grid and utilized as a clean resource elsewhere.

Integrating renewable energy includes clean electricity as well as options for providing sustainable heating and cooling. The proximity of the Mississippi River to several existing and planned mixed-use developments connected to Chouteau Greenway presents a great opportunity to harvest the thermal energy of the river by implementing water source heat pumps (WSHP). Heat pumps are sustainable, low carbon heating and cooling technologies that successfully can be connected to a district energy network to distribute energy sustainably beyond the project boundary.

Installing individual solar powered LED lights is a highly efficient way of providing integrated lighting while reducing emissions and preserving the area from trenching in standard electric utilities.

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Materials

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By incorporating Zero-Waste design guidelines and circular principles into the construction and operation of Chouteau Greenway, both the waste and emissions will be minimized. Waste management planning for the construction phase will incorporate stringent diversion goals and require source separation of recyclables, as well as life-cycle assessments of any new materials incorporated. The greenway will favor the following sustainable materials strategies:

Well-designed lighting is an enabler for thriving human communities. The lighting plan for Chouteau Greenway will be based on the concepts of sustainability, community, social life, and the rich culture and history of St. Louis. As the greenway passes through a variety of neighborhoods, the lighting elements will respond to the changing area, and to the diverse uses over time. By dynamically regulating and timing the intensity and spread of lighting you can achieve the following objectives:

• Low embodied energy materials — Local materials — Recycled/recovered materials • On-site composting

While some waste generation is an inevitable product of any infrastructure, it can be seen as a resource rather than an avoidable problem. Organic waste will be collected from the greenway and beyond and composted on-site. The soil produced through the composting process will be utilized as natural fertilizer for landscaping and plants along the greenway, to create a closed-loop system.

• Source separated waste containers By aiming to incorporate reused, recovered, and recycled materials for fill, paving, and structures throughout the greenway, and by sourcing all materials locally within a radius if 500 miles or less, the embodied carbon of all materials can be kept at a minimum.

Other solid waste produced on site will be source separated to increase recycling rates and reduce transportation needs.

This will reduce the amount of raw materials needed to be extracted and help preserve natural resources,

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To achieve a comfortable low light level and preserve the night sky, parts of the greenway path can incorporate ‘light stones’ that harvest sunlight during the day and emit subtle illumination at light.

The Van Gogh Cycle Path in Holland utilizes the technology of light stones in a pattern similar to the ones of Van Gogh’s paintings. Other technologies such as sprayable coatings of daylight absorbing particles that emit glow at night can be applied to any solid surface of the greenway. These integrated solutions can reduce the need for electric lighting and decrease the overall operating costs of the greenway lighting system.

• Safety • Dark sky consideration • Comfortable low light level • Expressive feature lighting of art, greenery, and with landscape Lighting plays a key role in the delivery of effective and safe public transport. One of the purposes of Chouteau Greenway is to increase the safety and attractiveness of a central infrastructure by making sure that the network is properly lit at night, while still preserving the dark sky.

Certifications

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Certifications are great resources to utilize on infrastructure projects like Chouteau Greenway, as they can be valuable tools in meeting holistic targets and raise the bar further for sustainability goals throughout all phases of the project. They also provide a transparent framework that will help engage owners, designers, and stakeholders early on in a project, and continuously communicate and promote sustainable achievements.

The following third-party certifications will be considered:

Maintenance of a new Chouteau Greenway could exceed current maintenance costs for other sections of the greenway that are already provided in the system. These costs would be dependent on numerous factors including

• Envision Light as an aesthetic feature of art and landscape enhances the vibrancy and culture of the city. Permanent or temporary installations of light is a powerful way to transform spaces in urban areas and attract people and commercial activity. This type of lighting will be incorporated while still preserving the dark night sky, which is essential to protect eco-systems, and to keep the appropriate day/night rhythm required for humans to have a productive lifestyle and a healthy sleeping pattern.

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• The extent of the greenway and its related amenities. For instance, if it contained commensurate park features, such as water fountains and play features, adjacent play areas, park seating and resting areas, pavilions for performance, maintenance would increase to standard park maintenance rates.

• If the greenway was a simple path but located near very high use destinations, trash and horticulture maintenance could increase, based on the density of usage.

In either of these cases, a separate revenue stream may have to be identified for maintenance. During the course of our effort, our team would assess maintenance needs of various alignments, and we would investigate other potential avenues of funding with client consultation, as needed.

A further way to fund ongoing maintenance of the greenway that would be explored is a TIF or BID structure. If large development sites are identified adjacent to the Greenway, there would be potential for those sites to generate maintenance funds.

Publicly owned sites, like the abandoned highway interchange, can be identified to provide both the opportunity for either new housing and/or commercial space, as well as space for the greenway. Given their pivotal location adjacent to the Gateway Mall and the downtown area, the sites have the potential to provide direct capital funds for Greenway development.

An in-depth inquiry as to whether it would be best for the individual developers to provide the greenway alignment as a part of their development a plan, or whether that responsibility should be reserved for the Great River Greenway would be undertaken.

A development program would be determined, after an in-depth analysis of potential locations. The analysis will focused on designating uses that would

generate sufficient revenue to support the greenway or its operations, and be compatible with the surrounding park and neighborhood uses. Development locations will be chosen to take advantage of the existing urban context by concentrating development closest to greenway entrances and maintain views to create vital, active urban junctions at each of the greenway entrances.

Key parcels like the GRG-owned site by the stadium, may be large enough to contain both the greenway, associated features and amenities, and appropriately scaled development. Development could be staged with the City making the park investment to create value of the private site, or a design could be developed and the city can select a developer for the both development and the park. In addition, taxes, ground leases or payment-in lieu of taxes, could be directed to fund maintenance.

11. Promote Design Excellence

12. Be Aspirational and Achievable

Our project provides an aspirational vision for the future of St. Louis, based in 21st century ideas of sustainability, embedding people in nature, and working with those processes to make places for people and other species to enjoy. By bringing people and urban experiences together with nature in new ways, these projects will create a new excitement and energy which will also catalyze private developments. These high-level design goals are cutting edge and will help create a forward-looking St. Louis.

We have laid out a framework for bringing together the whole St. Louis community in a series of new connected places—changing the very image of the city from a series of isolated islands to a vibrant integrated mosaic. From a city with a void at its heart to a wonderful diverse center—accessible and belonging to all.

This same high level of excellence will be continued into the details of the design.

We will work with the communities to determine the appropriate materials and level of maintenance for each portion of the project, to make the project sustainable. We will bring our talents and experience in creating designs for public use and enjoyment. And we will

work with the community to integrate appropriate historic information and current community values into the design. This can only be done with strong local participation, including our local design firms and artists. While the pathway needs to have a coherent identity, the design of individual spaces should be diverse to reflect the various constituencies whom we hope to make advocates for the project.

Our past history of success with over 50 design awards in 19 years, both for architecture and landscape, speaks for itself.

This has not been imposed, but is resurrected from the intrinsic shape of the land, by creating connections between city systems, and using the past to look to the future. We are embedding inhabitants in nature, while at the same time engaging their human nature to forge new partnerships and relationships.

This is a very achievable vision which can begin immediately by reallocating street spaces and working with artists to give them a new identity and meaning.

The final form and finish of these spaces is up to the budgets and aspirations of their individual donors and the collective vision of the city.

The vision will transform St. Louis into a more sustainable and healthier city, where water systems and clean air feed plants and other species; and residents are connected to nature. It uses “low tech” means to achieve high end results.

It creates value by transforming existing conditions into exciting new places.

This is also achievable as the vision is not predominately dependent on complicated restructuring of land uses or ownerships, but on using available vacant land for new uses, such as that under highways, and infilling new uses over time.

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JOURNEYS ON CHOUTEAU GREENWAY We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. —T. S. Eliot

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JOURNEY ONE

“I love experiencing the seasons and nature like you never could in the climate-controlled bubble of your car.”

DEVON, CYCLIST-COMMUTER

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Biome Charter School City Foundry

DEVON’S HOME IN OLD NORTH

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Steinberg Skating Rink and New Café

Basketball Courts

Devon is a young father and creative entrepreneur who collects friends with a genuine smile. He begins his day by making breakfast for his son, Calvin, and getting him dressed and ready for school.

Calvin enjoys the scenery while riding in a bike trailer behind Devon, who heads south along 14th Street from their home in Old North.

After a quick stop for coffee at Citygarden, father and son head west along the Gateway Mall, through Chestnut Street Park, to the Forest Park Market Greenway. Calvin likes to watch all the activity in the morning—students heading to classes at Harris-Stowe State University and St. Louis University, buses and cars, mothers with strollers, runners, and dogs out for a walk with their owners. Devon turns north on Taylor Avenue, rides to Olive Street, and walks Calvin to his classroom at The Biome School.

There is still time for a quick bite at the newly renovated Café at Steinberg Skating Rink for breakfast, so Devon heads back to the Forest Park Market Greenway, and turns west toward Forest Park. The new street crossing at Kingshighway and bridge over MetroLink make arrival in Forest Park so much quicker and safer. From Steinberg, on to the Forest Park Visitor & Education Center for a 10:00 AM meeting.

After his meeting, Devon heads down through Hudlin Park to Clayton Avenue, east past Ikea to City Foundry to meet a friend for lunch. The afternoon is booked with editing work at Devon’s studio, so he heads over the Spring Avenue Connector, and east through the Ewing Wetlands to Turpin’s Porch downtown.

It’s later than normal when Devon leaves the studio, but there is still time for a couple of pick-up games on the basketball courts before heading home for the evening.

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JOURNEY TWO

ALEXIS, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT

“My parents said, now that we have the Valley Beeline, when I turn 13, we can ride our bikes to a Cardinals game... I can’t wait!”

Chestnut Street Park

Gateway Mall

Ewing Wetlands

ALEXIS’ JOURNEY BEGINS AT PEABODY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Alexis lives in the LaSalle Park Neighborhood and is a 5th-Grade student at Peabody Elementary. This week, Mrs. Moore’s class is learning about biodiversity, the unique ecosystem of the St. Louis region, and how children can contribute to making a positive impact on the environment. Today, Alexis and her classmates embark on a field trip to explore the Ewing Wetlands, collect specimens, and return to the classroom to examine them under a microscope.

Mrs. Moore, the chaperones, and students gather on their bikes in front of the school, and head north on 14th Street. At the Gateway Mall, the group heads west on the Forest Park Market Greenway and stops for a picnic lunch in Chestnut Street Park. After lunch, Alexis and her friends spend some time wading in the cool water before packing up and heading south through the park to Scott Avenue, and west to Ewing, where there is access to numerous walking paths and overlooks through the wetlands.

The students are anxious to explore, but first Mrs. Moore talks about the history of Mill Creek Valley, from watershed, to thriving African-American community, to industrial rail corridor, to shared public amenity. She also leads a discussion about personal responsibility and our environment, composting, recycling, and water management. Afterwards, Alexis collects water samples and a few interesting plant species. She loves the herons and bitterns that have made their homes here, and makes a note to return with her parents, who have a special love of cardinals.

Laden with packs and samples, the students mount their bikes and ride south, through the wetlands to Chouteau Avenue, and east to 14th Street. Back at school, Alexis thinks about the conversation she will have with her family at dinner tonight, and where she will locate the compost in the backyard.

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JOURNEY THREE

“The Valley Beeline might be a shortcut for some. For us, it’s a leisurely walk through the wetlands, followed by a cold iced tea on Turpin’s Porch.”

JUDY AND DON, RETIRED

CWE Metrolink Station

Turpin’s Porch

Chouteau Pond

JUDY AND DON’S HOME IN SHAW

Judy and Don live in the Shaw Neighborhood, adjacent to the Missouri Botanical Garden. They’re retired, but remain active in the community, serving on civic boards and commissions, and volunteering regularly. They love the outdoors and make a habit of walking together every day. Late last year, Judy accepted that she should begin to use a wheelchair, and that has limited not only the length of their walks but also the location and route, which now depend on the accessible character of the sidewalk, trail, or terrain. However, Judy is determined not to let this new wrinkle alter their lifestyle.

Today, they’re heading out to explore the new Chouteau Pond in downtown.

They catch the number 80 bus on Tower Grove Avenue, head north, and transfer to the light rail at the Central West End MetroLink station. When they arrive at the Stadium station, they walk south along 7th Street and discover Turpin’s Porch – a shared pedestrian and bicycle pathway shaded by the elevated highway.

They study an interesting marker that informs them of the length of various walking journeys and decide to venture west along the north side of the pond.

They are pleased that the pathway has been designed to accommodate a wide range of abilities. They enjoy the abundance of well integrated art— colorful patterns on the structure of the highway, playful forms in the landscape, and unique pieces that allude to the history of the valley that once occupied this area.

A bit further west, they stop to watch a group of kayakers making their way across the water. There is a shaded seating area, and Don fills their water bottles as Judy admires the wisteria climbing the trellis. As they chat about their grandchildren, it’s approaching noon, and they decide to have lunch at the Waterside Café—salads made with fresh ingredients harvested this morning from the community garden. After lunch, they walk around the pond and continue west, sharing the Porch with runners, cyclists, downtown residents walking their dogs, and families. When they arrive at the Civic Center stop, theyboard the number 80 bus back to their Tower Grove Avenue stop and home, eager to explore more of the Valley Beeline on another trip.

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JOURNEY FOUR

“St. Louis has an awesome youthful vibe. The art scene is active and engaging, the food culture is amazing, and access to outdoor recreation is easy. We love it here.”

SEAN AND ABBY, TECH ENTREPRENEURS

Central West End

CORTEX Innovation Community

SEAN AND ABBY’S HOME BASE IN THE GROVE

Prospect Yards

Sean and Abby have worked in Silicon Valley since graduating in 2011. They love their work, active outdoor lifestyle, access to the arts, and the innovative food culture that northern California offers, but the cost of living on the west coast is an obstacle to realizing their dream of starting their own tech company.

Recently, they began actively searching for a place to relocate that offers great work space, affordable housing options, and access to research institutions that support an entrepreneurial spirit. Any place that makes their final list will have to offer opportunities for a variety of outdoor activities, a great art scene, and an amazing food culture.

This weekend, they are visiting St. Louis for the first time. They grab an Uber at the airport and arrive at their Airbnb in The Grove in 20 minutes. After the long flight, they feel like getting a bit of exercise before lunch, so they rent bikes and head west on Manchester Road.

At Taylor Avenue, Abby spots a marker that includes a map of the Chouteau Greenway, and they realize they’re only a short ride away. They head north on Taylor, then left on Clayton Avenue, and continue through Hudlin Park, across Kingshighway to Forest Park. They follow the Forest Park bike trail around the perimeter of the park, passing by the Saint Louis Zoo and Kennedy Forest.

Sean makes a mental note that there are two golf courses in the park. They pause

at the intersection of Lindell Boulevard, as they notice Washington University’s campus is just across Skinker to the west. They continue along Lindell past the Missouri History Museum, over a bike and pedestrian bridge, and back to Kingshighway at Forest Park Market Greenway.

At Kingshighway, they check another marker and decide to head east down the Greenway where there is a generous landscaped median with dedicated bicycle and pedestrian pathways. Both notice the busy Washington University Medical Campus and catch glimpses of the interesting neighborhood to the north. At Taylor, they turn north into the Central West End and find a small café with outdoor seating where they stop for lunch.

After a light lunch, they return to Forest Park Avenue and opt to ride east to Sarah Avenue before heading south again. On their way to Sarah, they discover the Cortex Innovation Community, and stop to explore the district, learning about the startup culture, relationships to local universities, and venture funding partners, an awesome find! Back on Sarah Avenue, they pass Ikea and Prospect Yards, definitely a place to explore for dinner later. As they arrive back at their apartment, they’re already talking about how this would be the perfect place to begin their new life.

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JOURNEY FIVE

“The Chouteau Greenway offers so many opportunities for changing my training runs.

There are so many ways to loop around. I can plan different routes every day for several months. Training never gets boring.”

RYAN, RN AND MARATHON RUNNER

RYAN’S HOME IN SKINKER / DEBALIVIERE

Steinberg Skating Rink and New Café Cortex Innovation Community

City Foundry

Hudlin Park

Arch Grounds

Ryan is 29, lives in the SkinkerDeBaliviere Neighborhood, and recently learned that he has qualified for the 122nd Boston Marathon. He’s a techie, and loves his running app, which will plan running routes for him based on the number of miles, terrain, and level of difficulty.

Ryan loves training on the Chouteau Greenway as it offers so many different opportunities to vary his route, loop around, and circle back. At the same time, north-south connectors like Sarah Street, Compton Avenue, and 14th Street make exploring new neighborhoods part of his training.

Several members of Kevin’s running group have volunteered to run alongside him for segments of his training runs, but none want to run the entire 26.2 miles!

With the app, it’s easy to track Kevin’s route, join him for a seven-mile loop, and drop off while he finishes his training run.

Today, Ryan leaves his house at Waterman and Des Peres Avenue and heads south to Forest Park. His route today takes him through the park, past the new Café at Steinberg Skating Rink, across Kingshighway and through Hudlin Park along Clayton Avenue to Taylor Avenue. At Taylor, he turns south, completely warmed up and feeling good.

He notices a few more active storefronts

since he ran this route a few months back —a small café, a gallery and artist work space, and a wine bar. At Manchester, he turns east to Tower Grove Avenue and is surprised to see his friend, Jack, waiting to join him. Together, they head south towards Tower Grove Park. While running past the Missouri Botanical Gardens, they make plans for their families to meet there for the Whitaker Music Festival on Wednesday evening.

At Tower Grove Park, they turn east, then north on 39th Street up through the Shaw Neighborhood, across I-44, and jog over to Spring Avenue and head north. They notice the new mixed-use development adjacent to St. Louis University Medical Center is complete as they run onto the Spring Street Connector over/under I-64/US 40 and into City Foundry. Jack heads back west on the trestle towards Clayton Avenue Innovation Park as Ryan continues on Spring, north through the St. Louis University campus and Grand Center Arts District. The current exhibition at CAM looks interesting.

In a zone now, Ryan takes a right at MLK Boulevard, and right again at Compton, heading south. He passes the new community center, The Hub, and has a great view of the Valley Beeline as he crosses the Compton Avenue bridge.

Taking a left at Chouteau, Kevin heads to 22nd Street and turns north and angles

through Chestnut Street Park towards the Forest Park Market Greenway. He is thinking of a friend who moved into the new residential towers lining the western edge of the park, when he sees Jeff waiting to join him on his run. The two head east on the Greenway along the Gateway Mall.

At the Arch Grounds, they turn south, run past Poplar Street Bridge Park under the highway with its popular basketball courts, and over the bridge. They run along Turpin’s Porch, enjoying the shade as they continue past The Pond.

At Chestnut Street Park, Jeff heads back north to his apartment while Ryan continues west, through the Ewing Wetlands, and past Prospect Avenue Yards towards Cortex. At The Clayton Avenue Innovation Park, he sees Jack playing hoops with some buddies.

West on Clayton Avenue, back through Hudlin Park, across Kingshighway, Ryan enters Forest Park. Once around the park… just once around the park. Ryan picks up the pace a bit, knowing exactly what to expect ahead.

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JOURNEY SIX

“Food and family are my passions.

I feel blessed to be able to indulge in both now in St. Louis.”

RACHEL, CHEF AND MOTHER

KINNON SISTERS BOOKER

Chef Rachel’s Restaurant, VIOLA

TERRANCE

Rachel is 34 and moved back to St. Louis from New Orleans last year. She has no formal training but learned the art of cooking from her grandmother. While Gram was teaching her how to butcher a hog, broomstick a chicken, and how to properly wash greens, Rachel was also learning respect for the land, the growing season, and the joy of sharing meals with loved ones.

Rachel apprenticed for many prominent NOLA chefs in the 15 years since she left St. Louis and has developed a deep love for the culinary traditions celebrated in the delta. She paid her dues and the time was right for her to open a restaurant worthy of sharing her grandmother’s secrets.

Having grown up in The Ville Neighborhood, Rachel was determined to find a location for her restaurant that offered a beautiful storefront, a shady street for outdoor dining, and space for her own garden, within walking distance for her family and friends from her old neighborhood. An old friend had been restoring buildings on the north side and heard Rachel was moving back to St. Louis.

The two met for coffee and talked about a few possibilities, finally settling on an emerging neighborhood on North Sarah Street. Six months later, Rachel opened Viola in a small, brick building with a

large glass storefront framed by the original cast iron columns, on Sarah Street at the Hodiamont Trail.

Rachel is thankful for all the community support and is looking forward to giving back any way she can.

The opening was a lot of work, but came off without a hitch, and after a few positive reviews business has been steady. Viola has gained a small, loyal following and already has a few regulars.

Terrance grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, graduated from Tulane, then MIT. He started a small biotech company located at Cortex. He is busy, but finds time to have dinner at Viola regularly. Most times, he comes with a friend or coworker, but occasionally he manages to get away on his own. He doesn’t care where he sits as long as Rachel’s cornbread is on the menu.

Booker is a mechanic who teaches Diesel Technology at Ranken Technical College.

He walks over every Wednesday for lunch and sits at the bar. He has great stories and will share them with anyone. The staff love him.

The Kinnon sisters have lived together on Belle Glade Avenue for as long as anyone can remember. As a teen, Rachel’s grandmother used to babysit them while their mother was at work. Their garden is the envy of the neighborhood. They have lunch at Viola at least twice a week and sit at the table in the corner, by the storefront, so they can see who’s passing by on the street. They always ask for the cornbread recipe even though they know it’s the only one Rachel will not divulge.

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JOURNEY SEVEN

“St. Louis has so much more to offer than we expected. It is both vibrantly urban and full of nature.”

THE RILEYS, VISITING FAMILY OF FOUR

Hodiamont Trail

Washington University In St. Louis City Foundry

Union Station

Gateway Mall

Arch Grounds

THE RILEY’S DOWNTOWN HOTEL Steinberg Skating Rink and New Café

Turpin’s Porch

Basketball Courts

Maria and Daniel Riley and their children, Ben and Julia, are from Harrisburg, Illinois. They looked forward to their spring break trip to St. Louis for several weeks. On the first day, they stayed downtown and visited the Arch Grounds, which was as wonderful as expected.

After stopping at the visitor center, they learned about Chouteau Greenway connecting the Arch Grounds to Forest Park—what a great idea! They started out with enthusiasm on a three-mile walking loop. From the river, they went under the highway to Poplar Street Bridge Park where lots of neighborhood folks were playing basketball and climbing on amazing nets. Their kids joined, Ben to basketball, and Julia to the nets, as Maria and Dan watched from the sidelines.

After, they stopped at an awesome ice cream truck to cool off. There was construction to the south which looked like a new, interesting neighborhood, Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront District.

They made a note to explore that on the next trip. So much was happening here.

Continuing west along this incredible promenade called Turpin’s Porch, they learned it was named after a prominent African-American musician and business owner. It was a surprise to learn that St. Louis has such a musical history.

Turpin’s Porch was under the highway in the shade with art by local artists everywhere. They came upon a beautiful small lake, The Pond, something you might find in the countryside, with birds and wildlife and surrounded by cafés for people watching. They reached Union Station Plaza where shops were spilling out and spent some time inside. Once back outside, they found an intimate stream where children were playing. Ben and Julia were only too happy to join.

After convincing the children to leave, they made their way down the Gateway Mall back to the Arch, past a beautiful series of gardens, including one where a marker informed them about stormwater management, and how important it is for cities. Back at the hotel, they had dinner and chatted about their busy first day in St. Louis.

They rented bikes the morning of the second day and ventured further out on a 12-mile trail. Starting again at the Arch Grounds, they followed Turpin’s Porch but went further this time, connecting up with Spring Street.

There, they discovered an area known as Prospect Yards—a collection of industrial buildings repurposed as a mixed-use development, so they stopped for lunch and explored the wonderful atmosphere of renovated buildings and

unique shops and restaurants. Heading north through St. Louis University, they joined the Hodiamont Trail to the north campus of Washington University and took the Ackert Walkway down to the main Campus. Ben was very impressed and wondered what it would be like to be a college student. After exploring the campus, they went to Forest Park, enjoyed its winding trails, and headed to the Steinberg Skating Rink for a snack in the new Café overlooking the park. What a great view! From there, they headed over the bridge to the Forest Park Market Greenway for a beautiful \ride straight back to the Arch.

This beautiful street reminded Maria and Daniel of the Champs Elysees in Paris and St. Louis’ French roots! They passed by a unique structure and were impressed to find it was a public recreation center, The Hub—providing all sorts of indoor facilities.

Exhausted after their two days exploring St. Louis, they all agreed there was much more to see and do. On the drive back to Harrisburg, they were already planning their next visit.

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EXHIBITION BOARDS

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EXHIBITION BOARDS

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

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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FOREST PARK

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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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Two new main connectors link the Arch Grounds and Forest Park: The Valley Beeline and Forest Park Market Greenway.

THE VALLEY BEELINE

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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.

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KIKU OBATA & COMPANY DENNIS HYLAND

KIKU OBATA & COMPANY JIM REDINGTON

KIKU OBATA & COMPANY RICH NELSON

ABNA DAVID DOBKOWSKI

ABNA FRANK EPPERT

ABNA MICHAEL BUSCHER

DEMOND MEEK ARTIST

WORK/PLAY DANIELLE AND KEVIN MCCOY ARTISTS

WM TAO & ASSOCIATES STEVE ANDERT

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NORTH SPRING AVENUE 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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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

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ALCHEMIC WORKS JESSICA PERKINS

VIA PARTNERSHIP MERIDITH MCKINLEY

YVONNE OSEI ARTIST

ELLIE BALK ARTIST

ADDOLEY DZEGEDE ARTIST

GARDINER & THEOBALD KEVIN GULVIN

OPERATIONS STRATEGIST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

WM TAO & ASSOCIATES JOHN WHITACRE

HYDRO DRAMATICS KERRY FRIEDMAN

M3-EG MARC ESHELMAN

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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.

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.

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COMMON GROUND IT’S WHERE WE GET TOGETHER AND RECONNECT AS ONE CITY, NO LONGER DIVIDED. 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.

CREATE NEW PUBLIC SPACES 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.

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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.

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MYRTLE AND EARL WALKER RESIDENCE HALL

GRIOT MUSEUM OF BLACK HISTORY

COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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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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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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.

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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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.

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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.

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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES We have our talented and experienced team in place and are ready on day one to start creating a new experience in Mill Creek Valley. We have already begun discussions with local artists on our team to create experiences and places that will immediately begin to communicate our proposal, attract people, and create interest in the plan. The 1.5 mile linear area under the highway that will become Turpin’s Porch can become populated by art and art events within months of starting the project, not years. These strategies are described further in the Program Recommendation section, as they rely heavily on our team of artists and community engagement strategists.

While the art installations and festivals are ongoing, planning can start on the initial project. Our initial take on Phase 1, pending conversations with the community and GRG, is to design and build the valley hydrologic areas (the pond and wetlands) and the Valley Beeline from Poplar Street Bridge Park to Chestnut Street Park. We also propose to complete the Spring Avenue Connector, at least over the highway to connect City Foundry with the Armory and the ramp to the Grand Avenue MetroLink station. This is a doable project within a reasonable time frame that would radically change the area between Forest Park and the Arch grounds and catalyze further development.

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Concept design would begin with more research and outreach. Our community engagement with the interested, invested, impacted, and intermediaries would be planned and begun. We would begin discussions with MSD to understand the possibility of funding and do modeling to better understand the hydrologic system and how to maximize green infrastructure. To the extent that the highway interchange at 21st Street will be reconfigured in this time frame, we can also plan our improvements in that areas to be timed with those changes. We would begin discussions with MoDOT to discuss the bikeway system and its relationship to other mobility systems.

If this phase were implemented, St. Louis would have a bicycle and pedestrian pathway and a series of places that connects from the Hodiamont Trail, down Spring Avenue, from Grand Center Arts District to City Foundry, the Armory and St. Louis University to the Valley Beeline, past the new wetlands and The Pond all the way to the river, connecting to the MetroLink stations and significant development.

The last part of our first phase is to start the planning work in the Sarah Seed Investment Area. We have a team of community engagement experts, art and culture planners, and artists who are ready to engage with the community to understand the needs and desires of the neighborhood and what would be most catalytic.

Implementation needs to also align the maintenance and operations with a sustainable budget.

Maintenance of a new Chouteau Greenway could exceed current maintenance costs for other sections of the greenway that are already provided in the system. These costs would be dependent on numerous factors including • The extent of the greenway and its related amenities. For instance, if it contained commensurate park features, such as water fountains and play features, adjacent play areas, park seating and resting areas, pavilions for performance, maintenance would increase to standard park maintenance rates. • If the greenway were a simple path but located near very high use destinations, trash and horticulture maintenance could increase, based on the density of usage.

In either of these cases, a separate revenue stream may have to be identified for maintenance as well as verification of the operator. During the course of our design effort, our team would assess maintenance needs of various alignments, and we would investigate potential avenues of funding with client consultation, as needed.

A further way to fund ongoing maintenance of the greenway that could be explored is a TIF or BID structure. This may work once the area attracts further development.

Publicly owned sites, such as the abandoned highway interchange at 21st Street, can be identified to provide both the opportunity for either new housing and/or commercial space, as well as space for the greenway. Given their pivotal location adjacent to the Gateway Mall and the downtown area, the sites have the potential to provide direct capital funds for greenway development or ongoing maintenance funds.

A development program would be determined, after a market analysis and review of potential uses and determination of potential revenue.

The analysis will focus on designating uses that would generate sufficient revenue to support the greenway or its operations, and be compatible with the

surrounding park and neighborhood uses.

Development locations have been chosen to take advantage of the existing urban context by concentrating development closest to greenway frontage and maintain views to create vital, active urban junctions at each of the greenway entrances.

Key parcels like the GRG-owned site by the stadium, may be large enough to contain both the greenway, associated features and amenities, and appropriately scaled development. Development could be staged with the City making the park investment to create value for the private site, or a design could be developed and the city can select a developer for the both development and the park. In addition, taxes, ground leases or payment-in lieu of taxes, could be directed to fund maintenance.

Sponsorships, private foundations, and donations can also be a source of funding.

This first phase of Concept Design would take one year.

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS ART & CULTURE Introduction Art will be a fundamental part of the experience of Chouteau Greenway. The arts—permanent and temporary public art, community-based art projects, artist residencies, music and theatrical performances, explorations of local history, art-making and art education— will be dynamic, engaging, and infused throughout both Chouteau Greenway and the Seed Neighborhoods.

A full art and culture plan for the corridor would normally take into account both broad-based community input and engagement with the local arts community. The following ideas and strategies are based on our analysis of the opportunities in relationship to the overall design, our knowledge of the local arts ecosystem, the Design and Community Goals, and the brief discussion with the Community Advisory Committee. Upon selection as the design team, these ideas will be further informed through stakeholder conversations and community input, and guided by the Artists of Color Council, to create a complete and community-informed art and culture plan to enrich and activate the greenway and surrounding areas.

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Freight and Barrel by artist Steven Siegel was a temporary installation created for the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, PA in 2004.

Created with the help of volunteers, Siegel draws attention to plastic waste that ends up in waterways.

Imagine Art Here is an informative and interactive workshop format developed by Via Partnership that engages a variety of stakeholders in a conversation about the vision and objectives for art and culture throughout a community, and in generating ideas and goals for specific projects and programs. This workshop format would help us connect with various constituencies in an impactful way, and develop more specific

recommendations that are responsive to community need. A range of stakeholders— artists, residents, businesses, civic leaders and more—would be invited to participate.

By bringing these groups together into an interactive, round table workshop, we can stimulate cross-fertilization and “big picture” thinking. An Imagine Art Here workshop could be held for Chouteau Greenway and for each individual Seed Neighborhood.

Public Art St. Louis has one of the most widely recognized works of public art in the world – the Gateway Arch. Other prominent sculptures, such as the Meeting of the Waters (Milles Fountain) and the Apotheosis of St. Louis (statue of Saint Louis) are well-known symbols of the city. These cherished works of art, all accessible along Chouteau Greenway, demonstrate the power of art to create identity and shape place.

The development of Chouteau Greenway presents an opportunity to bring more art to this part of the St. Louis region, and also to expand the types and approaches to public art – bringing a more expansive approach reflecting how artists work in public space today, and how audiences can encounter, interact with, and even participate in the art-making process.

Public art will be an instrumental tool to transform the experience of the greenway. We believe the impact of public art in the greenway can be to: • Activate Place. Public art should be fun, playful and interactive. It should not be considered static, but ever changing and a focal-point for programs, activities, learning, and events.

• Strengthen Connections. Public art can help build physical connections along the greenway, creating visual linkages between and within the neighborhoods the greenway passes through. But most importantly, public art can help make a human connection by creating emotional connections to place, telling important community stories, and creating opportunities for dialogue.

• Build Identity. Public art can both immediately help build an identity for the overall Chouteau Greenway, as well as support the individual identities of the neighborhoods that comprise the system.

• Change Perceptions. Public art can bring new audiences to Chouteau Greenway and the Seed Neighborhoods, and portray a positive and forward-looking image of our city.

• Engage Community. Public art can act as a tool to bring community together.

Public art should also take into consideration a broad set of guiding principles: • Responsive. Works of art should be created specifically for St. Louis and Chouteau Greenway and Seed Neighborhoods. Artists should be invited to create works specifically for this community that reflects a deep knowledge and understanding of this place.

• Equitable. Public art should be for everyone, and should be found throughout Chouteau Greenway, the Seed Neighborhoods, and the connective trails in-between. Proactive steps must be taken to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity for meaningful engagements with public art, especially communities where there has been little to no investment in public art.

• Excellence. Artwork will be of the highest artistic quality. Competitive juried processes to select artists and works of art should be established, and selections should be guided by community as well as by experts in the field of visual art.

• Arts Ecosystem. Public art should support building a stronger public art ecosystem in St. Louis. A special focus should be made on commissioning local artists, particularly artists who are representative and reflective of the communities Chouteau Greenway serves, as well as supporting local fabricators and others involved in the art-making process. Measures should be taken to address barriers to access and agency that can exist for artists who are interested in developing projects. top: Artist C.J. Rench and internationally known skateboarder Torey Pudwill collaborated to create a skate park that is also a work of art in Seattle’s Jefferson Park.

bottom row: The Gateway Arch, by Eero Saarinen; Apotheosis of Saint Louis by Charles Henry Niehaus, and Meeting of the

Waters by Carl Milles represent some of St. Louis’ most important and widely known landmarks.

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS ART & CULTURE PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITIES The following project categories are an initial way of thinking about the types of public art approaches that would be employed along the greenway. These typologies and specific opportunities would be further defined in collaboration with the Artists of Color council and through ongoing community engagement.

Project Type 1 - Mapping and Marking: Immediate Public Art Projects for the Greenway and Seed Communities Chouteau Greenway will take time to develop, over multiple phases. And the details for how the greenway intersects with and engages the many neighborhoods and communities it touches will be part of the work that happens once the competition phase is complete. Mapping and Marking will be a series of temporary, and potentially even some permanent public artworks, to keep the momentum for the project going, as well as a tool to continue to engage citizens in imagining and shaping the future of this important piece of urban infrastructure.

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For Mapping and Marking, local and regional artists would be engaged to: • Work with community stakeholders along Chouteau Greenway, in the Seed Neighborhoods, and along the North-South connectors to develop art projects that map or mark the future greenway. Projects could physically mark where the greenway would be located, help create interim-use public spaces along the greenway. • Design creative approaches to engaging the communities along the greenway, in the Seed Neighborhoods, and along the North-South connectors in discussions and decision-making regarding specific design opportunities.

On the next few pages, the artists on our team have developed conceptual art ideas for Chouteau Greenway. Some are initial projects to create awareness of this plan, others are to engage the Seed Neighborhoods, and some are permanent art projects.

In 2012, the District of Columbia Office of Planning engaged interdisciplinary art and design studio Rebar Group to produce a series of designs, events, and activities that engaged the community in generating new ideas for public spaces as part of a planning process for the Central 14th Street NW corridor. Rebar created several actions and events that included a plaza mock-up that tested spatial ideas for a future permanent plaza; a Street Furniture Design-Build workshop that resulted in a set of unique furnishings for local businesses; and an Art Food and Culture Crawl.

ART IDEA Motion Piece

I would be interested in creating a motion piece for this project, that could be used to generate buzz and help with fundraising for the greenway. 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 in their neighborhoods 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.

Project Type 2 – Community Markers: Celebrating our Neighborhoods and Creating a Sense of Place Community Markers are public art projects along Chouteau Greenway and in the Seed Neighborhoods that anchor important gathering places, tell important stories about the community, and help create a unique sense of place.

Community Markers will distinguish the neighborhoods the greenway passes through, and in doing so will provide an element of wayfinding for the system.

Some of these projects will be iconic markers that anchor and create interactive experiences at the primary public gathering places along the greenway – such as Poplar Street Bridge Park, Turpin’s Porch, Chestnut Street Park, The Hub, and the Clayton Avenue Innovation Park. These projects could also serve as beacons, drawing people to the greenway or along it (to get the next artwork), and even bring new vibrancy to the skyline.

Neighborhood-scale markers could include everything from murals, artistdesigned park projects (sculpture, park furnishings, play spaces), functional elements of streetscapes, and more.

For some projects, artists should be encouraged to consider how their projects can involve co-creation with the community.

Community markers will help anchor and define community gathering places and create a strong sense of place.

Clockwise from the top left: Mistree, Douglas Hollis, Houston; Visualize Pi Beat, Ellie Balk, Brooklyn; Westmoreland Nature Play, Adam

Kuby, Portland; Project Backboard Kinloch, William LaChance, Kinloch

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS ART & CULTURE Project Type 3 - Ecology and Technology: Making the Invisible Visible The Valley Beeline portion of the greenway will include permanent and temporary public art projects where artists explore and reveal ideas related to ecology and technology, especially as it relates to life science-based technologies that the region is known for.

Artists could be asked to create works that:

encouraging home pollinator gardens or drawing attention to things that are actively damaging the environment.

• Enhance: Public art projects that elevate the profile of ecology and the natural environment along the greenway, such as an artist-designed green wall.

For permanent installations, artists would be invited to participate in the design team for key segments of the Valley Beeline segment of the greenway, and their work would be integrated into the overall design.

• Reveal: Public art projects that reveal and make visible/accessible an aspect or element of the natural environment, such as the watershed or the water cycle.

Developers along this segment would also be encouraged to consider work that follows these ideas.

• Remediate: Public art projects that perform a function in protecting the environment, such as cleaning stormwater or providing habitats.

Temporary installations could be programmed on an ongoing basis, through partnerships with local arts organizations, educational institutions, science-based nonprofits, MSD and others.

• Advocate: Public art projects that are meant to inspire people to take action to protect the environment, such as With Ridge and Valley, artist Stacy Levy created a scale map of the Spring Creek watershed in a stone plaza at the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens at the Arboretum at Penn State in State College, PA. When the weather

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is dry, Ridge and Valley serves as a map, but when it rains, water from the roof of the Visitor’s Pavilion drains onto the terrace and flows across the carved waterways, creating a watershed in miniature.

In 2014, artist Jenny Kendler brought her Milkweed Dispersal Balloons to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Tower Grove Park. The project, which consisted of a mobile cart that distributed biodegradable balloons filled with milkweed seeds, sought to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators and the plight of monarchs.

ART IDEAS The following project categories are an initial way of thinking about the types of public art approaches that would be employed along the greenway. Personal goals for WORK/PLAY are to develop art and programming that promote interconnectivity, cross-pollination, and communal engagement.

Art & Commerce A project devoted to working with both children and teens in neighboring communities to create limited runs of publications and totes to be offered for sale. The proceeds would go back to the youth working collaboratively on the project. The project could also enlist poets, chefs, and a variety of prominent figures from these communities to thematically explore tradition. While it is very important to infuse art into these projects, it is also extremely important to add some component of independence. For many of the teens, art is not always a top priority when other pressing issues are at the forefront. This project could foster creativity, expression, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Project Type 4 - Public History: Telling St. Louis’ Diverse and Multi-layered Stories Chouteau Greenway provides an opportunity to explore St. Louis’ history through both public art and interpretation.

St. Louis is a city of proud neighborhoods, living and historic figures, both famous and infamous, and rich traditions.

St. Louis is also a city where the past (and present) is marked by racism and injustice.

The stories of St. Louis’ past that are currently told through public art are the typical man on horseback depictions of civic leaders, one-dimensional and onesided. The histories and stories of our diverse and celebrated neighborhoods and citizens are absent, such as Tom Turpin and the Rosebud Café, a famous African-American club in the early 20th Century at Market and 20th. Nor is the history of places like Mill Creek Valley, a predominantly African-American neighborhood that was bulldozed to build Highway 40 in the name of Urban Renewal. Making this painful history visible in the public realm acknowledges the real harm (immediate and long-term) done to thousands of individuals and the entire community.

Through the planning process, we will work with artists, designers, public historians, community leaders, community members and others to develop art projects (as well as didactics) that tell the stories of the neighborhoods that the greenway passes through, and make these stories more accessible for the people who live there and the people visiting. Projects could range from traditional public art installations and markers to oral history projects, performances, and other methods to make these stories come alive.

In 2017 the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission (Metro Arts) unveiled Witness Walls, created by artist and landscape architect Walter Hood, a public artwork commemorating the city’s role in the historic Civil Rights Movement. Walking among the walls visitors are placed in the center of historic moments represented by photos from the collection of the Nashville Public Library’s Civil Rights Reading Room. In conjunction with the artwork, Metro Arts developed a school curriculum and a podcast series called “My Witness” that features intergenerational interviews pairing seven Metro Nashville high school students with Nashville Civil Rights activists.

Breaking Bread Bridges change the way we see our cities especially with regards to the valleys. By utilizing these spaces, other things can emerge that wouldn’t typically get a second look. Breaking Bread looks to repurpose these valleys and transform them into communal meeting places. Breaking Bread is a social-based project where people meet, discuss, and unite over food.

Everything from business agreements to lasting friendships congeal over the power of eating together. It is clear that the dinner table is a place to cultivate conversation and affirm trust. This societal engagement is also a great way to work with local farmers to provide the freshest meats and produce to the communities at large. Each session would partner with local farmers and chefs to create simple communal fare.

Sound Sessions 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. Programing would run during summer or fall months where three sessions would be planned per year. It offers a space for people to congregate and go on a musical journey together.

left: The book titled A Thread…, a collection of poems and short stories curated by Danielle McCoy, printed by WORK/PLAY; right: Explorative silk-screened tote bag titled What Blacks is/What Black Ain’t created by WORK/PLAY.

Comfort foods created for small dinner parties.

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS ART & CULTURE Project Type 5 – Temporary Public Art and Public Art Events: Activating Place and Inviting Participation in the Creative Process Temporary public art projects can be a draw. Here today, gone tomorrow, they create a need to visit a site during the exhibition period in order to experience the work. Changing work can also keep the experience of a place fresh and new, which is important in a place with a lot of repeat visitors. Temporary projects don’t have the burden of being permanent, can be more about the here and now and can also capture new artistic ideas and a greater variety of artists.

For Chouteau Greenway, there is an opportunity not just for temporary projects, but for works that have an interactive component. These works can invite people to participate in the creative process, and have a hand in making something meaningful to themselves or to the larger community.

Artists invite participation and interaction in many different ways. Seed the Change, created by artist Jessica Witte invited the public to participate in making a 400’ long drawing out of birdseed along the Riverfront at the Arch on a beautiful June day in 2016.

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The Art Bus Program by Arts in Transit in St. Louis invites local artists to design, and the public to paint, murals on buses, including this Earth Day mural by Robert Ketchens and William Burton. In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), by Cause

Collective is a touring, portable, inflatable recording studio that invites the public to create two-minute long video responses, finishing the statement: “The truth is…”.

The responses are recorded on the project website.

ART IDEA 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.

A Chromatic Confluence was a temporary public artwork commissioned by Grand Center, Inc. in 2012 through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The installation, a 25’ x 60’ ephemeral maze-like

landscape, was created from over 25,000’ feet of colored macramé cord. Thoughtbarn worked with students from the Grand Center Arts Academy and architecture students from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of

Design and Visual Arts. The two-month long installation also served as a platform for activities, including a performance

by Orchestrating Diversity, a local youth orchestra.

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS ART & CULTURE COMMUNITY ART, ART ACTIVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS In addition to public art, there are ways to engage Chouteau Greenway users and Seed Neighborhoods in artful experiences. The greenway can become a destination for performance, exhibitions, educational experience and art-making.

Neighborhoods can be made stronger through strong arts organizations, community-based arts programming, and artists working closely with community to develop projects that help directly address community needs.

Seeding Existing Community-Based Arts Organizations and Programs The strategy outlined to engage with Seed Neighborhoods described elsewhere in this plan should have, as a special focus, an effort to strengthen community-based arts organizations and arts programs already active in these communities. This could include arts and culture presenting organizations such as the Griot Museum of Black History and the George B. Vashon Museum, as well as community organizations such as Better Family Life that have integrated arts programming into the services they provide to the community. A collation of arts-based funders should be developed

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to focus resources specifically to provide additional capacity for these organizations and programs to meet the needs of the community and to grow.

The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is a potential model of an arts organization and artists developing partnerships within communities to develop creative ideas to address community-identified goals.

Community-Based Artist Residencies and Studios Artist residencies and studios can be ways to engage artists in working with the community to address a community-defined issues. Artists could be embedded in city facilities, with neighborhood-based service organizations, or in planning processes.

The artists would be provided with support and resources, such as a stipend, a work and/or living space, materials and interaction with other artists, design professionals and communities.

Top: The Neighborhood Time Exchange artist residency, developed by Mural Arts, provided artists with free studio space in return for donated skills and services.

The Regional Arts Commission’s Community Art Training (CAT) Program could have Chouteau Greenway and Seed Neighborhoods as a focus area for one or more of their cohorts, providing a focused effort on engaging community organizations and artists in communitybased projects, and establishing long-term relationships with arts and neighborhood-service organizations in the Seed Neighborhoods for future projects, residencies and studios.

Bottom: Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge, a project of Mural Arts conceived by Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) transformed a vacant lot in South Philadelphia into a community space and a strategic hub for community planning.

ART IDEA

Marking Desire Paths in St. Louis

Possible Programming Partnerships Chouteau Greenway should be a platform for local arts, culture, history, and science institutions to bring their programming to reach new audiences.

Chouteau Greenway should proactively seek out partners, and work with them to secure the resources to develop ongoing programming for the greenway and the Seed Neighborhoods.

There are already many arts, culture and science organizations in St. Louis that have mobile programs, which allows them to bridge geographical divides.

Though this is not an exhaustive list, examples include: • CAM ArtBus: The CAM ArtBus is an innovative mobile art studio run by the Contemporary Art MuseumSt. Louis (CAM) that brings hands-on art experiences, artists and art educators, and virtual museum tours directly to diverse audiences throughout the St. Louis community. It could employ local artists and arts educators to offer a variety of participatory art projects for people of all ages along the greenway.

• Shakespeare in the Streets (SITS).

SITS is a grassroots theatrical experience that invites St. Louis neighborhoods to tell their stories. A creative team leads the neighborhood in developing an original play, based on one of Shakespeare’s works, that reflects the community’s character.

(digital mockup of gravel overlay on existing Desire Path)

This proposal, Marking Desire Paths, is based on a personal project I created and installed in an empty lot near the St. Louis County and City lines, close to my home during 2013 - 2014: By the fall of 2013, it had been two years since I moved to St. Louis and had noticed the sharp physical divide between St. Louis City and County on a stretch of road near my home on Vernon Avenue, near Skinker Boulevard. On the County side, the road was in better condition, but the sidewalk came to an abrupt end. A worn path in the grass marked where many people, including myself, made use of this corner during their travels through the neighborhood. I decided to make bricks and place them on-site, initiating a small gesture of care where the County had neglected its pedestrians and car-free residents. The Tibetan word shul is used to describe the mark left by something that was once there. A path is a shul because it is an impression left by the regular presence of feet, which visibly marks the way for others that follow.

• Outdoor Youth Corps. A program of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Outdoor Youth Corps is a summer youth employment program where area teens transform vacant lots, grow food, plant trees, create and care for colorful gardens and habitats, lead community clean-ups and action projects, and gain new knowledge and skills necessary for 21st century careers.

In the continuation of this idea of marking the way for others, my concept for Chouteau Greenway project is an art intervention using colored gravel to mark Desire Paths around the city. Ideally, prior to any construction, planners and designers would take these paths into consideration for their public projects, rather than create sidewalks that strictly follow the contours of a block.

top: The CAM ArtBus middle: Shakespeare in the Streets. bottom: Participants in the Missouri Botanical Garden Outdoor Youth Corps

The use of colored gravel is a quick and easy way to highlight the paths that people are already taking, while also providing an improved walking surface during inclement weather. If the opportunity arises for a more permanent and substantial project of this nature, another idea is to use stepping stones shaped like footprints that create an experience that would be a more obvious interactive art installation.

Footprints could be traced from residents residing near the installation site, creating a range of footprints in various sizes and styles, and ideally creating a /feeling of belonging and ownership of public space.

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS ART & CULTURE PERFORMANCE St. Louis has a wealth of performing arts —everything from professional music and theater institutions, touring musicians, and participatory groups that create top-notch productions. Chouteau Greenway will have places that become nodes for outdoor performance. As described elsewhere, new outdoor performance space will be created at Chestnut Street Park. Other spaces could hold pop-up performances, such as acoustically unique spaces under the highway.

In addition to serving as a venue for performance, we propose commissioning new work that directly addresses issues facing the communities along the greenway and in the Seed Communities, or St. Louis in general. A model could be PreEnact Indy, a theatrical production that “envisions a neighborhood that OUGHT to be—just, equitable, and economically vibrant.”

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Set on three blocks in Indianapolis in 2017, PreEnact Indy used every vacant lot, building, existing business, street lane and sidewalk was part of the stage. Actors acted out an equitable way of living and modeled a neighborhood that is revitalized, but is

also inclusive. Blurring the line between community festival and theater, the performance sparked a conversation about how to how to avoid the negative effects of revitalization.

ART IDEA They Must Know They Must Know is a two-part public installation, which would have one part, installed in a defined area in North St. Louis and the other part installed in a defined area in South St. Louis. It is a deliberate attempt to physically embed a part of North St. Louis in the physical landscape of South St. Louis and vice versa. I intend to create vibrant designs based on photographs I will take over a period of time in both North St. Louis and South St. Louis that reflect the culture, people, and physicality of structures in both places.

FESTIVAL Building on the ideas behind the Murmuration Festival in 2016 in Cortex, consideration should be given to an annual festival that has interactive public art experiences as a primary component (potentially, like Murmuration, with other components such as technology and music). This festival would have sites and activities along the entire Chouteau Greenway – activating and drawing people to Downtown, Grand Center, SLU, Cortex, the CWE, Forest Park and Washington University. The theme and scope of the art component of the Festival would grow out of collaboration between St. Louis’ many visual arts organizations, big and small, and the Artists of Color Council.

The work will create a visual slice of South St. Louis embedded into a physical portion of North St. Louis and a visual slice of North St. Louis embedded into a physical portion of South St. Louis to serve as a literal and conceptual connection, mergence and presence of both parts of the city that are at the moment divided racially, economically, and socio-culturally.

The photo-based designs I create will be installed to extend past the walls of each location to include sidewalks and even a portion of the street.

In November 2017–March 2018, I created an immersive installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park, bringing public sculptures, people that had visited the park, and the seasonal landscape of the park over the period of a year into the museum’s gallery space. (Bringing the outside in through textiles. See examples below). They Must Know will follow a similar approach of introducing and uniting two parts of St. Louis that live so close yet are so far apart.

CONCLUSION Laumeier Sculpture Park

St. Louis is a great art city. It is part of our identity – from our great public artworks and arts and cultural institutions to the ways people throughout the region make art as part of their everyday lives. Chouteau Greenway presents an opportunity to improve access to the arts for a great many St. Louisians. A commitment to the arts early and throughout the life of Chouteau Greenway gives this are its distinct identity and underscores the commitment St. Louis places on creativity and equitable access to the arts.

Celebration of the Bow was a public art festival in Calgary, Alberta in 2010 that invited six artists to create site-specific installations and happenings along the Bow River. Pictured above is Sources: River of Light by artists Laurent Louyer

and Creatmosphere Studio. Over ten days colorful balloons on the river used light and color to communicate information about the river flow, water quality, water cycle, and demand.

Mighty Pawns, Yvonne Osei, 2018, Textile Design

Memorial Piece A group of light screens like checkerboards installed into the ground like a checkerboard. Each screen displays text (fragmented in nature) that reveals personal and historical accounts of the city. The text is either black on a white background or white on black and needs human contact to reveal its content. When there is no human standing (as a pawn) on the surface of the screens, the installation is blank and resembles a checkerboard.

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PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Mapping Stakeholders for Successful Engagement When designing a program, service, product and/or project for use by others, multiple perspectives must be considered to ensure the end result satisfies the needs, desires and expectations of those directly and indirectly involved.

In the world of public infrastructure projects, like Chouteau Greenway, that is outreach to and engagement of four stakeholder groups—the invested, impacted, interested and the intermediaries.

The mapping process begins with identifying, prioritizing and analyzing stakeholders based on their influence and interest to determine when, how often and in what manner the stakeholders should be communicated with and engaged to meet the project’s design and community goals.

This strategic and thorough initial step allows for effective engagement, which in the long-term: • Empowers and fosters organizational trust, especially among those who are not normally included in planning processes.

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• Ensures all perspectives are heard and incorporated into the project because not all participants are experts in all areas. For example, architects and engineers are technical experts, but they are not experts in community life of a particular neighborhood.

project allies or critics, the key strategy is to manage and monitor interested stakeholders carefully to ensure full awareness of circumstances that could derail or provide project momentum.

With their strong level of interest, they can sometimes prepare the team for the unknown.

• Builds pride of ownership and increased project support because when stakeholders know they have been heard and their perspectives are incorporated in the design, they are more likely to embrace the project as their own.

Impacted stakeholders are affected by decisions and directives, but may feel they have little ability to control or shape them. Throughout the greenway development process, they must be engaged and consulted on their areas of interest by soliciting feedback, insights and recommendations. Like the interested, some of these individuals could also be members of the Community Advisory Committee. However, it is more likely that local champions and advisors will serve as intermediaries for connecting with the impacted, especially if they don’t feel empowered to participate.

• Leads to a better greenway project because it minimizes the risk of being blindsided by unaddressed concerns, issues and preferences. In other words, having the full diversity of the community involved, can save time and money.

For Chouteau Greenway, invested stakeholders are those entities that have decision-making authority and are accountable for results and outcomes.

They have the greatest level of influence and interest, and as such, usually form the Chouteau Greenway’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) – the system-based body comprised of transportation, economic development, utility, service providers, municipal and even special interest

experts that are connected to major institutions, such as colleges, universities and major employers along the corridor.

Invested stakeholders are engaged early and often, especially during the master planning and design phases of the project because of their high interest and influence.

Interested stakeholders are those who care about the issues, work and/or parties involved, but have moderate to low influence in the decision-making. Some of these individuals could be members of the Community Advisory Committee, especially if they represent or belong to grassroots and/or neighborhood organizations of those impacted. As

Intermediaries, the final stakeholder type, are boundary spanners or useful third parties who can connect with the impacted and/or interested stakeholders that the team cannot readily touch.

Information is shared on an as needed basis because they serve as connectors.

These are trusted individuals and/or entities who can invite and disseminate

information about the benefits of the project to the interested and impacted.

Examples of intermediaries are media outlets, service and program providers, educational institutions and faith-based institutions.

Once the stakeholder types are identified and prioritized based on interest and influence, it is best to conduct, where possible, one-on-one interviews and/or intimate listening sessions to help shape the actual engagement plan to fully answer the following questions: • Values: What does the stakeholder/ group value most with regard to the project?

• Concerns: What issues or concerns are priorities for the stakeholder?

• Influencers: Who or what has the stakeholders ear? Who do they listen to and trust? How do they want to be involved in the project?

• Contributions: What can the stakeholder contribute to the work?

• Vital Statistics: What are the demographic and psycho graphic characteristics of the stakeholder?

Moving Through the Spectrum of Engagement Public participation has been an integral element of greenway development since the inception of Great Rivers Greenway.

Recently, GRG and many of its partners created an extensive engagement strategy designed to generate meaningful community involvement in the greenway planning process.

As part of this strategy, GRG has undertaken public outreach and education activities; maintained open lines of communication with affected stakeholder groups and the public at-large; and provided multiple opportunities for community input on just about every greenway developed in the region. GRG’s goal in executing these efforts was to obtain the community’s informed support of its overall conceptual plan, as well as individual greenway plans.

In addition, GRG uses its community engagement strategy as a platform for making the community more aware of

Raise Awareness

Solicit Input

Informed Support & Ownership

Promote Understanding

Generate Interest

the important role it plays in improving mobility and connectivity, catalyzing community building, generating economic opportunities and creating diverse and accessible experiences.

The ultimate goal of GRG’s engagement strategy is generating community support and ownership for greenway development. This goal has required GRG to raise the public’s awareness of and interest in connecting people to neighborhoods, parks, cultural institutions and businesses through a series of interconnected off-road and on-road corridors. GRG has also sought to deepen the community’s understanding of the social, economic and environmental benefits of greenway development. These efforts have helped to make the public more informed, which has enabled GRG to solicit constructive public feedback throughout any greenway design process.

GRG consolidates the four elements leading to informed support and ownership into two major areas – communication (raising awareness, generating interest and promoting understanding) and collaboration (soliciting input). The techniques for communication and collaboration are as varied as the stakeholder types and the execution of techniques is dependent on the stakeholders’ interest and influence, as well as the phase of greenway development.

As it moves stakeholders to being informed and supportive, our team has developed a preliminary engagement template for each stakeholder type

(see table). The communication and collaboration techniques will be finalized after conducting the stakeholder mapping process.

Stakeholder Type

Potential Participants

Communication and Collaboration Techniques

Invested – High Influence; high Interest

Great Rivers Greenway Technical Advisory Group

Frequency: Communicate and collaborate with early and often throughout all phases of greenway planning and design Techniques: One-on-one meetings, planning workshops, site tours and issue specific charettes

Interested – Low to medium influence; high interest by regional issues

Community Advisory Committee representing key stakeholder groups broadly by ethnic, interests and active living diversity

Frequency: Communicate and collaborate with during the early to mid points in each phase and used as a sounding board to uncover potential impacted stakeholder issues, concerns and expectations Techniques: Planned CAC meetings with real-time audience response systems and facilitated site specific discussions for design and art elements

Impacted – Low to medium influence; medium to high interest

General Public – Those living, working, learning and playing along the greenway

Frequency: Communicate and collaborate with during the early to mid points during the master planning and design phases Techniques: Planned interactive workshops for temporary and permanent art and design elements, online feedback surveys and pop-up events co-hosted with intermediaries

Intermediaries – Medium to high influence; medium to high interest (by audience or issue area)

Major employers; cultural, faithbased and educational institutions (all levels); and neighborhood organizations

Frequency: Similar to impacted, but based on intermediary’s interest and influence Techniques: Planned interactive workshops for temporary and permanent art and design elements, online feedback surveys and pop-up events co-hosted with intermediaries

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TEAM COMPOSITION

W Architecture and Landscape Architecture ARUP Kiku Obata & Company ABNA Alchemic Works Via Partnership Artists: Demond Meek Work/Play Danielle and Kevin McCoy Yvonne Osei Ellie Balk Addoley Dzegede Gardiner & Theobald Regina Myer Molly Metzker William Tao & Associates Hydro Dramatics M3-eg Bio Habitats

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Chouteau Greenway is a complex urban project which requires an experienced team with a multidisciplinary approach.

Our team understands how to knit the social and physical fabric of St. Louis into a strong armature that can be a scaffold for community building and development.

A team with great experience and talent in creating such urban systems and places must be paired with a team that knows St. Louis well, physically and culturally. And most importantly, it should be a team that has a history of completing projects that people enjoy and cherish. Our team, composed of intentionally small firms with a high degree of passionate owner participation, brings this impressive array of experience and talent to the project.

Our team leader, Barbara Wilks, founder of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, has over 40 years experience in redesigning cities around the world. From her early experience working in Baltimore, first as an urban planner for the City, then as a practicing architect and urban designer for her own firm, she championed increased connectivity to bring together disparate urban enclaves which had been

fragmented by urban renewal, highway construction, and other single purpose projects as well as outdated industrial land uses or housing disinvestment.

For 20 years, she and her firm worked on major projects to heal the city including the Inner Harbor, multiple neighborhoods, the stadium, the Central Corridor Light Rail, various radial bike trails, and mixed-use waterfront industrial redevelopments. For the last 19 years, she has relocated to New York to work in cities around the world as an architect and landscape architect. Bringing these two complementary disciplines together has deepened the lessons of Baltimore, bringing increased resiliency and vitality to urban form and organization, and creating vital public space which are of their place and time in New York, Florida, Michigan and other states as well as a handful of foreign countries.

David Ostrich, project manager, brings a similar wide ranging experience. As a landscape architect, David has worked for 30 years around the country revitalizing cities. Projects range from a transformative framework of river promenades in Iowa City, to the redevelopment of “Steel Stacks” in Bethlehem Pa. He will coordinate the efforts of our team to implement the project.

Kate Cella will be our project architect, working with our local partner teams.

Kate recently completed a series of public buildings in various parks, including a community boathouse, picnic pavilions, restrooms facilities and others which are high quality design but also reuse materials and save energy.

Also from NYC, internationally renowned ARUP engineers will help the team with lighting design, sustainability, transportation planning, and innovative bridge design. James Conway, Jonna Turesson, Margaret Newman, and Luke Tarasuik will join our team of designers to keep us on track with the City’s sustainability goals.

We add to this deep strength in solving a wide range of urban conditions, the strong local knowledge of a creative practitioner who had been working in St. Louis for 40 years. Kiku Obata has developed a strong practice in placemaking, combining experience design, architecture, graphic design, wayfinding, and art. The firm is known for notable projects in St. Louis, the US and abroad. Kiku Obata contribute her life-long knowledge of the City of St. Louis and her expertise in the design of

the public realm. Dennis Hyland will lead and coordinate the local architectural and engineering teams. Jim Redington and Rich Nelson will focus on wayfinding and graphic design.

Because we want our designs to be realistic as well as visionary, we have included ABNA civil, geotechnical and structural, electrical engineers. Local to St. Louis, they are very aware of the particularities of the site and the permitting culture, and can make sure we are well integrated into the various infrastructure systems, especially hydrology.

Working with the community is going to be critical to the success of this project. We know of no better or more experienced person to help the team engage the broadest constituency for this project than Jessica Perkins of Alchemic Works.

The arts will also be a critical part of this project. Meridith McKinley, founder of Via Partnership, has over 20 years experience in the ever-evolving field of public art and cultural planning, and is also actively involved in the St. Louis art community.

Via has worked with communities across

North America to develop communityinformed art plans and commission award-winning public art projects.

We also have a number of artists on our team. Demond Meek, photographer, created the #SlumBeautiful project and is currently working on videos that capture the essence of St. Louis. In addition to his artistic achievements, he is a former resident of Laclede Town and current resident of Old North. Demond provides insight and first-hand knowledge of residing in the project areas. Our other artists including Danielle and Kevin McCoy who comprise Work/Play, Yvonne Osei, Ellie Balk, and Addoley Dzegede.

All of these notable artists work both in St. Louis and nationally.

Costs are also a critical part of this project, and we have often worked with Gardiner and Theobald to create accurate budgets for large scale projects. They will create budgets for each project phase and specific estimates as we move through the design to keep the project on budget.

As we develop the physical structure of Chouteau Greenway, it is essential to understand how it will operate and

survive. We understand that capital costs are often equal to maintenance costs over a twenty-year period. Insuring that the project has the means to succeed is critical. Regina Myer has worked in the public realm from many points of view, as an administrator planning and developing the major new Brooklyn Bridge Park to a public servant as Planning Director for Brooklyn, and now head of the Downtown Partnership (BID). She will help us make sure this Greenway and its many parts are sustainable.

Molly Metzker will serve as public policy consultant. She is an Assistant Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at WUSTL where she focuses on housing strategies for racial and economic equity.

William Tao & Associates, based in St. Louis, will serve as mechanical and plumbing engineers. Hydro Dramatics contributes their expertise as fountain designers and M3-eg will provide hydrology engineering and modeling.

Bio Habitats, with ecologists, Keith Bowers and Ed Morgereth, will consult on ecosystem regeneration.

CHOUTEAU GREENWAY

DESIGN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY

COMMUNITY

W ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURE

Principal in Charge: Barbara Wilks, FAIA, FASLA Project Manger: David Ostrich Design & Research: W Staff

ARUP

LIGHTING DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY, & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

DEMOND MEEK ARTIST

GARDINER & THEOBALD COST ESTIMATING

M3-EG

HYDROLOGY

KIKU OBATA & COMPANY EXPERIENCE DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, GRAPHICS

WORK/PLAY

(DANIELLE & KEVIN MCCOY) ARTIST

REGINA MYER

OPERATIONS STRATEGIST, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ABNA

CIVIL, ELECTRICAL, STRUCTURAL, & GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

ALCHEMIC WORKS

VIA PARTNERSHIP

YVONNE OSEI

ELLIE BALK

ADDOLEY DZEGEDE

MOLLY METZGER

WM TAO & ASSOCIATES

ARTIST

PUBLIC POLICY

ARTIST

MECHANICAL & PLUMBING ENGINEERING

PUBLIC ART

ARTIST

HYDRO DRAMATICS

WATER FEATURE DESIGN

BIO HABITATS

ECOLOGY & WETLAND RESTORATION

Additional team members will be added for special features as required

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W-ARCHITECTURE BARBARA WILKS

W-ARCHITECTURE JULIA HOWE

W-ARCHITECTURE DAVID OSTRICH

W-ARCHITECTURE KATE CELLA

Barbara Wilks, principal and founder of W Architecture and Landscape

Julia Howe has over ten years of experience in landscape architecture,

David Ostrich is a Senior Associate/Landscape Architect who brings

Kate is an architect and landscape designer who enjoys working with

Architecture, is a leader in the field of design. Beginning her career as

urban design, environmental planning and working with interdisciplinary

over 30 years of experience in the design, management and

clients to create architecture and landscapes sensitive to their needs

an architect and obtaining prominence in that field for her design skills,

teams. Her background in the arts and sciences enables her to

implementation of projects in the public realm. He has worked with a

and existing site ecologies. As a dual degree professional, she is

she realized that her interests in public space linked with the profession

seamlessly integrate creative ideas and technical requirements. She

variety of communities to develop the potential of under-utilized open

interested in the relationships that exist between the built and natural

of landscape architecture. Now as an architect and landscape architect,

is particularly interested in improving the health and diversity of

space through a community-based visioning process that empowers

environment, and gives careful attention to scale, craft, maintenance,

Barbara uses her leadership skills to realign nature and the city. Barbara

landscapes and creating places that are distinctively valuable and

community participants to create consensus around ideas and visions

and constructability in all of her projects. As a project manager, Kate

has won many awards for her work and was elected to both the College

responsive to surrounding context.

that appeal to a variety of stakeholders. David has extensive experience

has been managing complex projects as diverse as the 20-acre park

FAIA, FASLA

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

SENIOR ASSOCIATE/ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

PROJECT ARCHITECT

W-Architecure.com

of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and the American

in large-scale, open-space projects that are challenging or complex often

in St. Petersburg, FL, the temporary Plaza 33 at Penn Station, the acre

Society of Landscape Architecture for her design accomplishments.

Julia has experience with public and private clients including New

involving numerous, competing interests. David brings a commitment to

green roof and largest green wall in the NYC area for Prudential, 27-

Barbara opens her projects for participation during the design process,

York City Parks, Times Square Alliance, and several developers. Most

the craft of place making and the materiality of design. He is committed

41 West Street waterfront development, and the Wavertree Historic

to include the surrounding communities and government agencies.

of her projects are for multiple constituencies and include community

to the integration of natural processes into the urban environment.

Ship restoration. Kate has been actively managing the Boathouse and

The work reflects her leadership skills in the synthesis of these multiple

engagement and strong project management skills. Julia is in charge of

David’s horticultural background brings a depth of knowledge and

Community Building for JB Lane Riverside Park in Tampa, the Washroom

inputs to create a connection between the fundamental ecology of the

Sustainability, ensuring that our office environment reflects our interest

experience in creating vibrant living landscapes. He is committed to

Building at St. Patrick’s Island, the USS Constellation Education and

site, its historical and cultural legacy, and its current iteration.

in working in a healthy place with minimal impact on the environment.

our project partners, and the communities in which we work.

Heritage Center, and the St. Pete Pier Approach.

PROJECT ROLE Principal in Charge, Lead Designer

PROJECT ROLE Landscape Architect

RISD Graduate Award of Excellence in Architecture First Prize, $5,000 award

PROJECT ROLE Landscape Architect

EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture Rhode Island School of Design, 2008

2005-2008 Landscape Architecture Departmental Fellowship Grant Rhode Island School of Design

LICENSING Registered Landscape Architect: Pennsylvania, 1990

EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture Cornell University, 1974 Master of Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania, 1993 PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Registered Architect: MD, NY, PA, VA, NJ, RI, TX, NC NCARB Certified Registered Landscape Architect: MD, NY, RI, CT, NC, NJ CLARB Certified TEACHING

SELECTED PROJECTS St Patrick’s Island, Calgary, AB West Harlem Piers Park , NY, NY The Blue Pier, St Petersburg, FL St Petersburg Pier Approach St Petersburg, FL The Edge Waterfront Park, Brooklyn, NY Calgary Riverfront Park, Calgary, AB Tide Point Park & Master Plan Baltimore, MD Hamilton River Plan, Hamilton, OH Penn Plaza, NY, NY Troy Riverfront Park & Master Plan Saw Mill River Restoration Plan Yonkers, NY

Adjunct Professor, Urban Design NYU Wagner School NY, NY, 2016

Villahermosa Lagoons Villahermosa, Mexico

Adjunct Professor, Landscape Architecture, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College, NY, NY, 2009-present

Reimagining Recreation 2040, NY, NY

Assistant Professor, History of Architecture, Morgan State University Thesis Critic, School of Architecture, Morgan State University, 1998 Instructor, Introduction to Historic Preservation, Goucher College, 1993

Shore Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Westport Public Library Riverfront Landscape, Westport, CT Rebuild by Design, NY, NY River Master Plan, Hamilton, OH Villiers Island Landscape Master Plan Toronto, ON JB Lane Riverside Park, Tampa, FL USS Constellation, Baltimore, MD Edgewater Riverfront Park Edgewater, NJ

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Bachelor of Arts, Colorado College, 2003 PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Registered Landscape Architect: New York, 2016 VOLUNTEER Terreform One Designer, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Public Architecture Material Reuse Researcher, San Francisco, CA 2009-2010 PUBLICATIONS Design for Reuse Primer

by Public Architecture US Green Building Council, 2010 The Making of Design Principles

by Kyna Leski RISD Architectural Press, 2007 AWARDS 2017 Design Excellence Award Public Design Commission of NYC Woodside Taxi & Limousine Building 2008

EXHIBITIONS 2013 d3 Sketch Center Gallery at Fordham University Lincoln Center 2008 Partly Sunny - Designs to Change the Forecast, dialog:city RISD Innovation Studio SELECTED PROJECTS Shoelace Park & Biketrail Bronx, NY Biotech Campus Tarrytown, NY Shore Parkway & Biketrail Brooklyn, NY Westport Library and Riverfront Landscape Westport, CT Villiers Island Landscape Master Plan Toronto, ON The Edge Waterfront, Phase II Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania 1984-1987 Bachelor of Science Horticulture North Carolina State University 1979-1984 TEACHING Studio Instructor University of Pennsylvania, 2016 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania 2008-2016 Studio Instructor, Drexel University 1999-2000 Studio Instructor, Temple University 1990-1995

AWARDS 2017 Rudy Brunner Award Steel Stax Campus SELECTED PROJECTS Steel Stax Campus Bethlehem, PA New Stapleton Waterfront Staten Island, NY 11th Street Bridge Competition Washington, DC Trinity River Master Plan Dallas, TX Principal Riverwalk Des Moines, IA Georgetown Waterfront Park Washington, DC Falls of the Ohio River Greenway Masterplan, Jeffersonville, IN White River State Park Indianapolis, IN Liberty State Park Jersey City, NJ

PROJECT ROLE Landscape Architect LICENSING Registered Architect: New York, 2015

SELECTED PROJECTS The Pier Approach, St. Petersburg, FL JB Lane Riverfront Community Boathouse Tampa, FL St. Patrick’s Island, Calgary, Canada

EDUCATION Master of Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2008

27-41 West Street, NY, NY

Master of Landscape Architecture School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2008

Wavertree Historic Ship South St. Seaport Museum, NY, NY

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Art History with Honors Minor in Architecture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 2004

RiverWalk Stage 2, Calgary, Canada USS Constellation Visitors Center, Baltimore, MD

Prudential Headquarters Corporate Landscape, Newark, NJ Plaza 33, Temporary Plaza, NY, NY Edgewater Waterfront, Edgewater, NJ

AWARDS 2016 AIA NY Chapter, Plaza 33 Mayor’s Award, Urban Design Catalyst Calgary, St Patrick’s Island National Urban Design Award, Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, St Patrick’s Island Honor Award, ASLA NY Chapter, Plaza 33

Private Residence, NY, NY Private Residence, Bridgehampton, NY Equity Residential Landscape Renovation, Jersey City, NJ Design within Reach, NY, NY

ARUP MARGARET NEWMAN

ARUP JONNA TURESSON

ARUP JAMES CONWAY

ARUP LUKE TARASUIK

Margaret Newman is a Principal in Arup’s New York office. With over

Jonna Turesson is a Graduate Sustainability Engineer for the Energy and

James Conway is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 15 years

Luke is an experienced structural engineer with a track record of

25 years of experience as an architect and urban planner in New York,

Sustainability team at Arup’s New York office. She has an Environmental

experience working across the UK, Middle East, and Asia. He has

delivering major infrastructure projects. He specializes in bridge design

Margaret has extensive experience building complex projects in the

Engineering background with a concentration in energy, and is a LEED

specialist expertise in heritage landscape design and management

and design/construction management. He completed his Bachelor of

public realm. Ms. Newman has coordinated and managed the needs

Green Associate. Jonna has experience developing sustainable design

having worked on many sensitive and internationally important historic

Civil Engineering specializing in Structural Engineering at the University

of multiple stakeholders: city and state agencies, private sector and

for closed-loop sanitation and organic waste management systems,

sites. James has considerable design and construction experience,

of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

real estate industry clients, community and non-profit organizations,

creating interactive tools and programs to improve building energy

especially from working on site for the London 2012 Olympic Games

identified funding needs for complex projects as well as permit approval

efficiency and end-user interaction, and achieving building certifications

project as the landscape and engineering design representative.

Field of competence/experience:

process for city agencies, design commission and landmarks. She

for new and existing facilities. As a WELL Accredited Professional,

Following this role, James established and ran the landscape team in

Bridge Structures

has managed a wide range of project consultants including civil and

Jonna has broad knowledge of the WELL Building Standard, and

Arup’s Hong Kong Office covering large-scale masterplanning, ecological

- Cable-stayed bridge design

transportation engineering, structural, MEP, acoustic, lighting, product,

expertise in the implementation of health and wellness strategies in

restoration, infrastructure works, nature reserves, land reclamation,

- Post-tensioned concrete box girder design

furniture, graphic design, site and landscape design.

the built environment. Jonna utilizes her versatile background in the

quarry and cavern development, major planning and engineering

- Pre-tensioned concrete girder design

environmental science and engineering field to generate sustainable

studies, strategic housing developments, and detailed landscape

- Composite bridge design

solutions and create integrated, innovative green and healthy design.

design projects.

- Seismic design and analysis

PROJECT ROLE Environmental Engineer

SELECTED PROJECTS Arup New York WELL Feasibility Study, NY, NY

PROJECT ROLE Landscape Architect

SELECTED PROJECTS Lujiazui Waterfront, West Bund, Shanghai, China

PROJECT ROLE Bridge Design - Structural Engineer

EDUCATION BS, Environmental Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York, 2016

Arup New York FitWel Certification, NY, NY

EDUCATION MA(Hons), Landscape Architecture

Shantou New East Coast City, China.

AFFILIATIONS Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI)

North Taipa Urbanization Plan, Macau

EDUCATION Bachelor Of Civil Engineering, (First Class Honours), University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia

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PROJECT ROLE Planning EDUCATION MArch, Princeton University, 1987

American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter 2008, Best Program, ITE Transportation Planning Council

Registered Licensed Architect New York

2010, Transportation Advancement Award, ITE Metropolitan New YorkNew Jersey Section

LEED Accredited Professional

2010, FHWA Award

LEED BD+C

2012, Evergreen Award, Greenlites

AFFILIATIONS Fellow, American Institute of Architects Member, U.S. Green Building Council and Urban Green Council, NY Chapter Member, Forum for Urban Design Founding Board Member, NACTO Global Designing Cities

2009, Innovative Transportation Solutions Award, WTS, Greater New York 2010, EPA Smart Growth Award, Environmental Protection Agency 2012, Lee Kuan Yew World City Price

WELL Accredited Professional LEED Green Associate

Empire State Reality Trust (ESRT) Tenant Energy Portal, NY, NY* Mexico City International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico

AFFILIATIONS Member, US Green Building Council (USGBC)

Integrated Design of a Sustainable Anaerobic Waste Management system, Blackadore Caye, Belize*

Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (NSPE)

*experience prior to joining Arup

International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) PUBLICATIONS Learning Legacy – Lessons learned from the London 2012 Games Construction Project - Greenway

Dongting New Town, Yueyang, China Peckham Coal Line, London, UK London 2012 Greenway, UK

AFFILIATIONS Chartered Engineer

QCLNG Jetty Detailed Design, Curtis Island, Gladstone, Australia GLNG/QCLNG/APLNG Jetty Site Services Curtis Island, Gladstone, Australia BCC Bridge Inspections and Level II Assessments, Brisbane, Australia

SELECTED PROJECTS Gordie Howe International Bridge (Tender Design), Ontario, Canada/ Detroit, MI

Howard Smith Wharves Detailed Design, Brisbane, Australia Skardon River Wharf, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Tawatina Bridge (Detailed Design and Construction), Edmonton, Canada

Member, Architectural League, NY Supervisory Board Member, reSITE, Prague, CZ

NYCEDC Transportation Planning and Policy Consultant On-Call, NY, NY

Committee Member, AIA-NY Transportation and Infrastructure Program Director

Neighborhood Activation Study, Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY

East Midtown Steering Committee with Gale Brewer and Dale Garodnick rezoning plan

Savoy Park Site Planning and Design, NY, NY

New Farm RiverWalk Replacement Project (Detailed Design and Construction), Brisbane, Australia

Sustainable Streets: Strategic Plan, NY, NY*

GLNG Jetty (Detailed Design), Gladstone, Australia

Public Realm Vision Plan for East Midtown and Rezoning Steering Committee, NY, NY*

Anzac Avenue Cycleway (Detailed Design), Brisbane, Australia

AWARDS 2015, President’s Award for Design Excellence in the Public Realm,

Maba Court Pedestrian Bridge, Brisbane, Australia

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SELECTED PROJECTS Morristown Engineering and Mobility Improvements, Morristown, NJ

Governor’s Island Advisory Committee with President Leslie Koch

Story Bridge Inspections, Brisbane, Australia

South River Valley Guideway (Detailed Design and Construction), Edmonton, Canada Gerald Desmond Bridge (Detailed Design and Construction), Los Angeles, CA

*experience prior to joining Arup

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KIKU OBATA & COMPANY KIKU OBATA

KIKU OBATA & COMPANY DENNIS HYLAND

KIKU OBATA & COMPANY JIM REDINGTON

KIKU OBATA & COMPANY RICH NELSON

Kiku Obata founded Kiku Obata & Company in 1977. She leads the firm

Dennis Hyland is responsible for leading the design of a wide variety

Jim Redington is responsible for concept, design and implementation

Rich Nelson has over 30 years of experience conceptualizing, designing

in its philosophy to create unique and compelling brands and places. Ms.

of project types and scales, ranging from urban districts, streetscapes,

of major environmental/experiential graphic and signage projects. He

and managing award-winning print and comprehensive corporate

Obata brings over 40 years of experience to a highly diverse portfolio

and mixed-use projects to small scale urban infill and retail projects.

possesses 20 years of design experience, has strong hand and digital

identity projects that include initial brand strategy development, market

of work. As creative director, she oversees the development of the

He has extensive experience in the synthesis of complex programs and

3D visualization skills, and has experience with new and developing

differentiation, positioning, and logo development, and environmental

design concept, defining how research and design can meet client

context into strong design solutions resulting in meaningful, relevant,

technology to augment wayfinding experiences with electronic signage

graphics and signage. His recent projects include environmental graphics

objectives and engage people. She works with clients to incorporate

and memorable places. His role as design lead on projects includes the

and mobile devices. Mr. Redington possesses strong communication

for the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Lucile Packard Children’s

in-depth research and future-focused design perspectives. Ms. Obata is

management of multiple design disciplines, both within the firm and

skills as a project manager and team leader, and has successfully

Hospital, and the annual design of the poster for Shakespeare Festival

recognized for her ability to bring the positive qualities of retail’s focus

outside consultants, focusing their efforts toward seamless, integrated

completed numerous wayfinding projects for retail, sports, health care,

St. Louis.

on experience to every project. She believes that one’s surroundings and

design solutions.

government, and private clients. He has developed branded environments

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immediate interactions greatly impact mood, health, and emotion.

and the integral partnership and advertising sponsorship opportunities within those environments. He also excels at developing exhibit, interpretive, specialty fabrication design, and building and tenant criteria.

PROJECT ROLE Design Director EDUCATION Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts, 1973

CURATORIAL Slurp, Honoring the Ramen Bowl, March 2017, Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, St. Louis, MO SELECTED PROJECTS Beauty Brands, Kansas City, KS

AFFILIATIONS AIA Affiliate Member

Block Thirty Seven, Chicago, IL

AIA Retail & Entertainment Knowledge Community Advisory Group, Past Chair

Delmar Redevelopment District/ The Loop, St. Louis, MO

Society of Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), Former Board Member American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Charter Member St. Louis Chapter

City of Mt. Sterling, Mt. Sterling, IL

Downtown St. Louis Streetscape Guidelines, St. Louis, MO The Fashion Mall, Indianapolis, IN Finish Line, Indianapolis, IN Great Rivers Greenway, St. Louis, MO

International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)

Indiana Avenue Cultural District, Indianapolis, IN

Retail Design Institute (RDI)

Madrid Xanadu, Madrid, Spain

BOARDS Laumeier Sculpture Park, Board Member Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Board Member Whitaker Foundation, Former Trustee Airport Art Advisory CommitteeLambert St. Louis International Airport, Committee Member TEACHING Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas, Visiting Professor of Interior Design 2015-2016

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Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis, MO St. Louis Loft District Guidelines, St. Louis, MO

PROJECT ROLE Architect EDUCATION Master of Architecture, University of Illinois, 1989 Quincy Fellowship in Historic Preservation, 1987-1988 Bachelor of Science, Architectural Studies, University of Illinois, 1981 PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Registered Architect in Texas AFFILIATIONS American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) National Trust for Historic Preservation TEACHING Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, Adjunct Faculty in Architecture, 2011-Present

Starbucks, Seattle, WA

SELECTED PROJECTS Beauty Brands, Kansas City, KS

The Trestle, St. Louis, MO

Big Shark Bicycles, St. Louis, MO

Washington Avenue Streetscape, St. Louis, MO

Carmel City Center, Carmel, IN

Whole Body for Whole Foods Markets, Chicago, IL

City of Mt. Sterling, Mt. Sterling, IL

Downtown St. Louis Streetscape Guidelines, St. Louis, MO Finish Line, Indianapolis, IN Great Rivers Greenway, St. Louis, MO Indiana Avenue Cultural District, Indianapolis, IN Madrid Xanadu, Madrid, Spain Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

PROJECT ROLE Environmental Graphic Design EDUCATION Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Washington University, 1992 AFFILIATIONS Society of Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD)

SELECTED PROJECTS Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL Carmel City Center, Carmel, IN Carmel Wayfinding Signage Master Plan, Carmel, IN Clayton Wayfinding Signage and Master Plan, Clayton, MO Eco Shoppe, Austin, TX; Walnut Creek, CA

PROJECT ROLE Graphic Design EDUCATION BFA in Graphic Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985

SELECTED PROJECTS Ameren, St. Louis, MO BJC Health System, MO & IL Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO Carmel City Center, Carmel, IN Coors Field, Denver, CO

AFFILIATIONS American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)

Delmar Redevelopment District/ The Loop, St. Louis, MO Finish Line, Indianapolis, IN

The Pageant, St. Louis, MO

The Fashion Mall, Indianapolis, IN

Pin Up Bowl, St. Louis, MO

Flamingo Bowl, St. Louis, MO

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood & Tampa, FL

Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO

Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood & Tampa, FL

Indiana Avenue Cultural District, Indianapolis, IN

Rego Park, Queens, NY

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Lakeland Downtown Development Authority, Lakeland, FL

Leonor K. Sullivan Blvd., St Louis, MO

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO St. Louis Loft District Guidelines, St. Louis, MO Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO

Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA Madrid Xanadu, Madrid, Spain

More’s City, Yokosuka, Japan The Museums at 18th & Vine, Kansas City, MO

Starbucks, Seattle, WA

Manhattan Mall, New York, NY

The Trestle, St. Louis, MO

Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis, MO

The Pageant, St. Louis, MO

Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL

Saint Louis Children’s Zoo, St. Louis, MO

UBS, Weehawken, NJ Washington Avenue Streetscape, St. Louis, MO

The Palladium, Carmel, IN

Whole Body for Whole Foods Markets, Chicago, IL

Rego Park, Queens, NY

Winslow’s Home, St. Louis, MO

Smart Care, Denver, CO

Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO The Trestle, St. Louis, MO

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Saint Louis Zoo Signage Master Plan, St. Louis, MO Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO UBS, Weehawken, NJ

Delmar Redevelopment District/ The Loop, St. Louis, MO

Washington Avenue Streetscape, St. Louis, MO

Dot Foods, Mt. Sterling, IL

Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO

ABNA NICOLE ADEWALE

ABNA TY ABBOTT

ABNA JON LUER

ABNA STEPHEN ALSBURY

Nicole has 27 years of experience in planning, surveying and

Ty has over 24 years of experience managing infrastructure design

Jon’s career began with the Missouri Department of Transportation

Stephen has 31 years of experience in engineering, design and

engineering. Prior to co-founding ABNA Engineering with her partner,

improvements for all aspects of civil engineering. His experience

where he achieved the level of Senior Highway Designer. After nine

construction management for structural and civil projects and will

she performed key roles in projects of different sizes in Southern Illinois.

includes roadway, highways, site planning, land development, grading,

years with MoDOT, Jon joined the consulting engineering industry

serve as ABNA’s Lead Structural Projects Manager. He has a working

Currently, Nicole is responsible for managing and supporting all planning

drainage, hydrology, hydraulics, stormwater management, sewer, water

where he spent 17 years and eventually became his firm’s Chief Civil-

knowledge of AASHTO bridge specifications and design requirements.

projects, providing LEED expertise for project design and construction,

distribution projects, and utility coordination. This experience includes

Transportation Engineer. He’s a registered engineer in multiple states

He is also proficient with IDOT and MoDOT bridge manuals,

and has led efforts to emphasize the use of GIS in the management and

the design and management for a variety of clients within public works,

and brings a wealth of expertise in Facility, Parking Lot, and other

specifications and procedures. Leading a number of bridge design and

production of planning deliverables. She also lends support to various

municipalities, commercial, industrial, residential and environmental

Site Design, Roadway Design, ADA Standards as applicable for public

rehabilitation projects throughout Illinois and Missouri highways, he has

engineering projects usually in the areas of technical specifications. In

remediation projects. Ty is also adept in Project Estimation,

rights-of-way, Project Management, Transportation Design Studies and

provided value engineering for various municipal bridges. He valued

addition to her direct involvement with the projects listed below, she is

Transportation, Topographic Surveys, and Construction. As ABNA’s Civil

Traffic Signal Design, Lighting Design & Analysis, Road Reconstruction,

engineered the I-170 Interchange Project at Olive, where he saved

also responsible for marketing, business development, bid preparation,

Engineering Manager, Ty provides leadership and quality oversight on all

Transportation Design Studies and Traffic Engineering, Transportation

MoDOT in excess of $500,000 by eliminating one of the spans at the

contract negotiation and EEO compliance. Seeing a need in certain

of ABNA’s civil site design projects.

Engineering, Aviation, Light and Heavy Transit, Urban Streetscaping and

single point interchange. Stephen has also provided structural expertise

Historic District Pavement Preservation.

on several projects for the Illinois State Tollway Highway Authority.

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segments of the community to promote careers in science, Nicole formed strategic alliances between ABNA and the Science Center, NSBE and a national sorority. In this capacity, she helps organize major events at the science center and works with community groups to help break PROJECT ROLE Civil Engineering

down barriers to technology.

PROJECT ROLE Civil Engineering EDUCATION B.S. Civil Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS LEED AP 2009 AFFILIATIONS Missouri Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE)

SELECTED PROJECTS Hazelwood Diversity Program Services, St. Louis, MO Renovation of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, City+Arch+River 2015 Foundation, St. Louis, MO MSD Breckenridge to Baltimore Storm Channel Vadalabene Nature/Bicycle Trail, Southwestern, IL Walnut Park East & West / Mark Twain Planning Study, North St. Louis, MO

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

East St. Louis Vision 20/20 Infrastructure Plan, East St. Louis, IL

Society of American Military Engineers (SAME)

FHWA/COMTO National Outreach Program, Subject Matter Expert Nicole worked with COMTO, Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, view set, and the FHWA office of Civil Rights to demonstrate the successes of the “Missouri Model” of diversity and inclusion.

Society for Marketing Professional Services American Planning Association St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers Associated General Contractors St. Louis Science Center Trustee Board US Green Building Council

EDUCATION MBA, University of Missouri–St. Louis

SELECTED PROJECTS West Florissant Road, St. Louis, MO Luther Ely Smith Square Reconstruction, St. Louis, MO

BS, Civil Engineering University of Missouri–Kansas City

Washington Avenue Streetscape Phase 3 (7th St.- Memorial St), St. Louis, MO

BA, Physics William Jewell College

Washington University East Campus and Jubel Hall, St. Louis, MO

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer MO #028944 IL #062.057897

St. Louis University John Carroll Parking Improvements, St. Louis, MO UMSL Benton Stadler Science Complex, St. Louis, MO Summer Oaks Drive, Ellisville, MO

AFFILIATIONS APWA – President Missouri Chapter American Society of Civil Engineers Engineers’ Club of St. Louis

PROJECT ROLE Transportation Manager

SELECTED PROJECTS ISTHA Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) and Lee Street Interchange

PROJECT ROLE Civil, Structural, Electrical, Surveying

EDUCATION BS - Civil Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology

IDOT PTB 168/008; Work Order #3E – US Rte. 6 over Midlothian Creek

EDUCATION BS - Civil Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer: IA #20231 IL #062.048256 LA #36573 KY #25990 MO #023271 MS #20456 AGi32 Lighting Design & Analysis AFFILIATIONS Highway Engineers Association of Missouri National and Missouri Societies of Professional Engineers American Society of Civil Engineers The Engineers’ Club Transportation Engineers Association

IDOT PTB 168/008; Work Order #3E – US Rte. 6 over Midlothian Creek IDOT Chain of Rocks Bridge Design and Rehabilitation IDOT 890/160; I-70 Tri-Level Connector

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer MO – 024698 IL – 062.047000 Structural Engineer IL – 081.005261

I-270 Relocation, IDOT District 8*

NHI-Course 130055 Safety Inspection of In-Service Bridges

*experience prior to joining ABNA

NHI-Course 135046 Stream Stability and Scour at Highway Bridges NHI -Course 130087 Inspection and Maint. of Ancillary Highway Structures IDOT FHWA-NHI Certification 130078 Fracture Critical inspection Techniques for Steel Bridges IDOT Bridge Inspection Program Manager

SELECTED PROJECTS I-474 Twin Bridges over Illinois River Bend Road Bridge over the Meramec River Eads Bridge over Mississippi River Boeuf Creek Road Bridge over Boeuf Creek Moniteau Creek Road Bridge over Moniteau Creek 172nd Street over Carroll Creek Blanchette Memorial Bridge over Missouri River IDOT Statewide Sign Structure & High Mast Lighting Inspection Bridge Inspections Inspector working with (Alfred Benesch & Company) Performed inspections on the I-270 bridges over the Mississippi River and the Chain of Rocks Canal worked on rehabilitation cost estimates.

AFFILIATIONS American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineer Association of Illinois (SEAOI)

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ABNA DAVID DOBKOWSKI

ABNA FRANK EPPERT

ABNA MICHAEL BUSCHER

ABNA CHANTAL BLOCK

Dave has 36 years of experience in roadway and stormwater conveyance

Frank provides electrical engineering and design services for

Experienced with a variety of structural design including buildings

Chantal has nine years of experience in civil- site design including design

and management design and permitting. This includes coordination

transportation infrastructure such as roadway lighting, parking lot

consisting of steel, concrete, light gauge metal, masonry & wood and

of roadways/highways/bridges, box culverts and precast walls. She

with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DNR, and MSD to obtain land

lighting and traffic signals, in addition to office buildings, industrial

industrial platforms and equipment supports, Michael serves as ABNA’s

utilizes a sustainability approach in all her designs. She is familiar with

disturbance, clean water permits and Letters of Map Revision and

plants, educational facilities, warehouses, and other commercial

Senior Structural Projects Designer. He has provided structural expertise

Primavera, SAP2000, QuickBooks, Visual Basic and many others. She

Amendment (LOMRs and LOMAs) for local adjustments to Flood

buildings. His duties have included cost studies, energy conservation

for health care facilities, financial institutions, industrial complexes

also has a working knowledge of AutoCAD and Microstation.

Insurance Rate Maps prepared based on HEC-2 and HEC-RAS models.

measures, equipment selection, and shop drawing review, construction

and airfields throughout his 29-year-career. Michael is proficient with

Dave led the major design and permitting (both Nationwide and

observation, and final inspection. He has over 35 years’ experience in

preparing structural calculations, details, specifications and cost

Individual permits) effort for the Shrewsbury Metro Station River Des

design and design management for both electrical and mechanical

estimates, tracking project performance, addressing cost constraints,

Peres tributary enclosure. Dave’s MSD design experience includes storm

systems, overall project management and review, construction

supervising construction documents preparation, reviewing submittals

and sanitary conveyance design for numerous capital improvement

management for both private and public agency clients, and firm

for structural compliance, field inspection and seismic analysis. He

projects directly for the District, as well as many private projects that

management. Frank has provided project management, design

is knowledgeable of architectural requirements which assists in his

required MSD review and permit for flood protection, stormwater

and design review for street and highway lighting as well as traffic

effective coordinate with a variety of team members.

conveyance, and management.

signalization projects in Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee.

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PROJECT ROLE Civil Engineering EDUCATION MBA, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Master of Accounting University of Missouri–St. Louis MS, Engineering Management Missouri University of Science & Technology

Weldon Spring: Design and Field Experience From Installation of Geosynthetics – D. Dobkowski, K. Lee, N. Tjhang, and K. SELECTED PROJECTS Chouteau Lake Greenway Luther Ely Smith Square Reconstruction Goodfelllow Sewer – ARRA Project, GSA

BS, Civil Engineering Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

Green Bathroom Design Assistance for Shaw Nature Reserve

MS, Civil Engineering Missouri University of Science & Technology

Cypress Parking Facility/Super Park

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer MO #022828 IL #062.046643

Metro Shrewsbury Station Site Modification

PUBLICATIONS Large-Scale Hydraulic testing of LowPermeability Clays – S. Grozescu, D. Dobkowski, and R. Bradram

Jackson Park Elementary School Construction

Integrating GPS Technology with Traditional Surveying to Build a Waste Disposal Facility – R. Bailey and D. Dobkowski

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Habitat for Humanity Monsanto W1 Lot Parking Structure Kim’s Kid Childcare Facility

Clayton Schools 2009 Facility Improvements

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SELECTED PROJECTS Stifel Lighting Bollards, St. Louis, MO Eagle Bank Drive-up Facility Highmont Road, Ferguson, MO W. Florissant Avenue Great Streets, St. Louis, MO Washington Avenue Streetscape, St. Louis, MO Natural Bridge West*, St. Louis, MO

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer: Illinois #062.024057 Missouri #014674 Ohio #60976 Arkansas #16122 Iowa #19747 Mississippi #17908 Tennessee #111411 Lighting Analysts AGi32 Photometric Lighting Design & Analysis AFFILIATIONS U.S. Green Building Council Heartland Region Chapter Volunteer Superstar Awardee Past Co-Chairman for City of St. Louis Building Review Past Chairman for ACEC/Military Advocacy Program Chairman for City of St. Louis Plumbing Review Committee

Scott Air Force Base Entrance Road Lighting*, St. Louis, MO Cypress Road CNG Fueling Station* St. Louis Board of Public Service* *experience prior to joining ABNA

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SELECTED PROJECTS Chicago O’Hare Airport Structural Inspection, Chicago, IL

PROJECT ROLE Civil Engineering

EDUCATION B.S. - Architectural Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

IDOT Statewide Sign Truss & Tower Inspection

EDUCATION BS Civil Engineering Tulane University

Graduate Course Work in Civil Engineering - Structures, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer: MO – 024513 National Highway Institute Safety Prerequisite Assessment for Safety Inspection of In- Service Bridges Verification Code: FHWA-NHI-130101A NHI-130087 Inspection & Maint. of Ancillary Highway Structures IDOT FHWA-NHI Certification 130078 Fracture Critical inspection Techniques for Steel Bridges AFFILIATIONS National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) National Society of Ahit t lE i

ISTHA DUR - Bridges – PSB 05-4 (RR05-9023), Chicago, IL Phase I Studies for I-290 Bridges 169/2/PI/DI, Cook County, IL

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer MO #2014016928

Eads Bridge over Mississippi River, St. Louis, MO

AFFILIATIONS Society of Civil Engineers

MetroLink Structures Inspection Program Engineering Services, St. Louis, MO

Society of Women Engineers

CTA Red and Purple Lines Modernization Structural Engineer/Structural Inspector

Steel Bridge Competition (2008)

SELECTED PROJECTS Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, MO UMSL Benton Stadler Science Complex, St. Louis, MO USACOE Rend Lake, IL N/S Sandusky Recreation Improvement Habitat for Humanity St. Louis Urban Development, St. Louis, MO Pacific Estates Stormwater Study, Pacific, MO Metro North County Transfer Station, Ferguson, MO Design of South Broadway Streetscape (East Courtois-Upton), St. Louis, MO

ALCHEMIC WORKS JESSICA PERKINS

VIA PARTNERSHIP MERIDITH MCKINLEY

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After serving as a co-founder and vice-president of Vector

Partner. Founder of Via Partnership, LLP, a St. Louis-based consulting

Born in St. Louis, Demond is a commercial-advertising photographer

Communications for 18 years, Jessica Perkins started her third business

group that facilitates public art projects. Working with public

and director. Aside from his time attending the University of Arkansas

enterprise, Alchemic Works, in July 2016. With the new consulting

agencies, developers, cultural organizations and community groups,

Fayetteville studying architecture, Demond has lived most of his life in

practice, Jessica focuses her research, facilitation and organizational

Via plans, curates and produces public art throughout the United States

the city of St. Louis. It was during his time in architecture school that he

development expertise on collaboratives and multi-sector entities

and Canada.

discovered his passion for photography. Demond was instantly drawn

striving to strengthen and measure their social impact. Perkins has

to the medium and quickly made the decision to pursue photography

conducted extensive research on collaborative development (collective

as a career.

impact) and how this organization structure can lead to better service

PROJECT ROLE Art and Cultural Programming

delivery and coordination, as well as efficiencies and cost reductions. She is particularly interested in those entities specializing in education, youth development, health care and sustainability. Since her new venture’s inception, Jessica has worked with collaboratives developing regional strategies for youth workforce development; school-based health clinics; and youth health and well-being.

EDUCATION St. Louis University – PhD (ABD), Public Policy Analysis and Organizational Development University of Wisconsin, Madison – MBA, Finance Lindenwood College – BS, Marketing and Psychology (double major); Statistics (minor) AWARDS BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL St. Louis American, Top 25 Minority Business St. Louis Business of the Year – Mayor Francis Slay Entrepreneur Excellence Award – National Black MBA Association and Wells Fargo Bank CIVIC AWARDS Woman of Distinction, Professional Organization of Women Outreach Award Recipient, Community Women Against Hardship

SELECTED PROJECTS Ferguson Community Food Assessment, Ferguson, MO Leadership Training, Continental United States Forward Through Ferguson Strategic Planning & Collaborative Development, St. Louis Region City/County Governance Study with Better Together, St. Louis, MO Vacancy to Vibrancy: Converting Urban Green Spaces, City of St. Louis Police Commissioner Community Forums, City of St. Louis, MO Vector Communications Great Rivers Greenway Wayfinding Study, St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County Midtown Loop/Hodiamont Conceptual Update, City of St. Louis Forest Park Forever Connectivity & Mobility Study, City of St. Louis City of St. Louis Consolidated Plan, City of St. Louis St. Louis Bike Share, St. Louis, MO Choice Neighborhood – City of Wellston, Wellston, MO CityArchRiver 2015, St. Louis, MO OneStL: Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD), Eight county area surrounding St. Louis, MO

PUBLICATIONS Who Are We? Where Do We Sit? Reflections on Public Art on the New American Frontier, by Todd W. Bressi and Meridith McKinley, Public Art Review, fall/winter 2008 PRESENTATIONS So Parks and Rec Inherited Public Art, Now What? National Parks and Recreation Association (NRPA) Conference, organized and presented with Diane Ruggerio, October, 2016

SELECTED PROJECTS PUBLIC ART Public Art Community Investment Plan, Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Nashville, TN City of Alexandria Public Art Implementation Plan, Alexandria Office of the Arts, Alexandria, VA Grand Center Temporary Public Art Guidelines, Grand Center, Inc., St. Louis, MO DC Creates: A Master Plan for the District of Columbia Public Art Program, DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

The Value of Public Art in City Building, Texas City Manager’s Association (TCMA) Annual Meeting, June 2014

A Public Art Plan for the Expressive Potential of Utility Infrastructure, City of Calgary Utilities and Environmental Protection Department, Calgary, AB

Public Art Master Planning: Developing a Plan for Your Community, organized and presented with Todd W. Bressi, Americans for the Arts (AFTA) Knowledge Exchange, Arlington and Reston, Virginia, December, 2008

PUBLIC ART CURATION AND MANAGEMENT Time & Place: Gadsby’s, temporary public art installations at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, Alexandria Office of the Arts, Alexandria, VA

So You Think You Need a Public Art Master Plan, Americans for the Arts (AFTA) Annual Convention, organized and presented with Todd W. Bressi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June, 2008 Public Art on Trails, presentation with Emily Blumenfeld for the Missouri Trails Summit, Powder Valley Conservation Area, St. Louis, MO, October, 2007 Public Art and the Environment, Lunch and Learn presentation with Emily Blumenfeld at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, October, 2007

Connect/Disconnect, a temporary public art exhibition, Louisville Commission on Public Art, Louisville, KY Quill, a permanent public art installation by artist Christian Moeller, Monday Properties, Arlington, VA Wonderland, a permanent public art installation by artist Jaume Plensa, Encana Corporation, Calgary, AB

LECTURES, RESIDENCIES, PROGRAMMING AND WORKSHOPS 2018 Color-ism Lecture, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 2017 Emerging Professional Lecture, Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland, CA Participating artist/vendor, Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago, IL Teaching Artist with Mickalene Thomas (Danielle McCoy) St. Louis Art Museum, LEAP program, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Artist-In-Residence, ACRE, Stueben, WI

Since then Demond has collaborated with several corporations and assisted in the creation of award-winning ad campaigns across the United States. Known for commercial portraiture and lifestyle

AWARDS AND GRANTS 2016 Regional Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant

work, it was his personal photo project #SlumBeautiful that brought about international attention. A project that began simply as a way to photographically document some of St. Louis’ oldest and most endangered architecture turned into a project that challenges the way people perceive, document, and live within their urban environments.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 ​Color-ism​, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 2017 ​Delta, Echo, Bravo, Tango​, Lillstreet Rooftop Gallery, Chicago, IL

#SlumBeautiful has been displayed in group gallery exhibitions and has been collected by private art collectors around the world.

COMMERCIAL CLIENTS Anheuser-Busch Express Scripts Caterpillar DFW Airport Monsanto Buffalo Wild Wings Dr. Pepper United States Postal Service

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 SPRING/BREAK Art Show​, New York, NY Fully Booked Art Book Fair​, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2017 ​ Almost Now, Just Then​, projects+gallery, St. Louis, MO Feeling Homesick at Home​, ACRE Projects Gallery, Chicago, IL ​Lot 49​, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO Fully Booked Art Book Fair​, Dubai, United Arab Emirates ​Encoded​, Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS 2017 A Way, Away (Listen While I Say)​, brand identity and collateral for the scope of the project, (In collaboration with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Amanda Williams and Andres Hernandez) 1​ 00 boots Poetry Series​, design & letterpress printing, (in collaboration with the Pulitzer, Jessica Baran & Ted Mathys) INDEPENDENT PUBLIC WORKS 2017 ​On&On Series Pt. 2​, exhibited for The Lambert Art & Culture Program, LambertSt. Louis International Airport BIBLIOGRAPHY James McAnally, “Staying Put”, Art in America, November, 2017 Gavin Kroeber, “Encoded”, Art in America, March, 2017

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YVONNE OSEI ARTIST

ELLIE BALK ARTIST elliebalk.com

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EDUCATION Lindenwood University in St. Louis, St. Charles, MO, Master of Arts, Fashion Design and Business, 2019 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, 2016 Honors: Chancellors Graduate Fellow, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellow, and Danforth Scholar Webster University, St. Louis, MO, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design concentration, Bachelor of Arts, International Studies concentration, Certificates: International Human Rights and Leadership (WebsterLEADS Program), Honors: Magna Cum Laude graduate, Departmental Honors in School of Fine Arts and School of Arts and Sciences, International Distinction Award, Omicron Delta Kappa Honors Society, 2013 AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2018 Cité Residency Award, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France Emerging Artist Recipient, Saint Louis Visionary Awards, St. Louis, MO 2017 St. Louis Best Dressed Award, St. Louis Magazine, St. Louis, MO Kranzberg Exhibition Series Award, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO 2016 The Yvette and John Dubinsky Scholarship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 2015 Sam Fox Production Grant, Washington University in St.Louis, MO Sam Fox Travel Grant (Ghana, Togo and Benin), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 2014 Richard A. Horovitz Award for African Artists and Scholars, NY, NY Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Québec, Canada 2013 Sam Fox Travel Grant (Ghana), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 2012 The Cecille R. Hunt Memorial Award, Webster University, St. Louis, MO

Yvonne Osei: Tailored Landscapes, Kranzberg Exhibition Series, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

EDUCATION Master of Fine Art, Painting: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2005

2017 Heads Wrapped in Conversation: Carry Load Performance, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting: Bowling Green St. University, OH, 2002

2016 Insidious Series Performances, Dantokpa Market, Cotonou, Benin; Port of Lome, Lome, Togo; Kejetia Market, Kumasi, Ghana; Elmina Castle, Cape-Coast, Ghana; Makola Market, Accra, Ghana Yvonne Osei: Africa Clothe Me Bare Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Resident Artist: Residencia Corazon, Buenos Aries, La Plata, Argentina

2015 A Color of My Skin Performance, The Home Depot Paint Department, St. Louis, MO

2017 Exhibition: Color Key, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Resident Artist: WAAW Artist Residency. Saint Louis, Senegal. West Africa

Close Enough Performance, Lewis Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Mama Brought Back My Duku Performances, Acropolis, Athens, Greece; Döner de Luxe Resturant, Mitte, Berlin, Germany; Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ariana Park, Geneva, Switzerland; Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy 2014 The Imitated Performance, Grand Blvd, North St. Louis, MO GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Mane N’ Tail, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO Wrapped in Knowledge: West African Textiles from St. Louis Collections, Lambert International Airport, St. Louis, MO 2017 Webster Faculty Exhibition, Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, MO Soft Center, Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN Harlem Renaissance: Contemporary Response, Center of Creative Arts, Millstone Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2016 Say I Am, PLUG Projects, Washington University, Kansas City, MO

Student Government Association Scholarship, Webster University, St. Louis, MO The Sr. Francetta Barberis Endowed Scholarship, Webster University, St. Louis, MO

Powerful! Women Black Women Artists, Vaughn Cultural Center, St. Louis, MO

2011 The Sr. Gabrial Mary Hoare Art Scholarship, Webster University, St. Louis, MO

Transmission - The Transversal Project, Olin Library, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

The Dr. Neil J. George Endowed International Study Award, Webster University, St. Louis, MO

A Candle and A Compass - The Transversal Project, Lone Star Art District, San Antonio, TX

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AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND LECTURES 2018 Fellowship Award: Artist Fellowship ($20,000) Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, MO

Indications of War Performances, Residence of Nkosuohene, Kumasi, Ghana, 2016; Elmina, Cape-Coast, Ghana, 2015; Nzulezo, Western Region, Ghana, 2015

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 2018-2015 Africa Clothe Me Bare Public Performances, Grant Park Rose Gardens, Chicago, IL; University of Houston, Houston, TX; Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, Overland, KS; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; St. Louis City Garden, St. Louis, MO; Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Dallas, TX; St. Louis Water Tower, St. Louis, MO; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Near Karlsplatz, Opera Theatre, U-Bahn, Vienna, Austria; World Intellectual Property Org., Geneva, Switzerland

Advanced Painting Studies: Studio Arts Center International. Florence, Italy, 1999-2000

MFA Invitational Exhibition, Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building, St. Charles Community College, St. Louis, MO 2015 Graduate Student Exhibition, DesLee Gallery, St. Louis, MO Color, Material, and Ritual, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School, St. Louis, MO, Juror: Buzz Spector 2014 Level, Best in Show, Class of 2013 Senior BFA Show, Webster University Art Department, St. Louis, MO

Grant Panelist: Program Support, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO

Panelist: Making it Work, Critical Mass, St. Louis, MO Grant: Artist Support, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO Grant Panelist: Artist Support Grants, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis MO Presenter/Lecture: Visualizing Bio Diversity, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO Presenter/Lecture: Visualizing Mathematics, St. Louis Public Schools, Springboard for Learning Resident Artist: Aquetopia Artist Residency: Printmaking, Puebla, Mexico Grant: Walentas Family Foundation. Brooklyn, NY 2016 Selected Artist: Creative Stimulus Award. Critical Mass. St. Louis, MO Artist in Residence: CIC, St. Louis, MO

SELECT PUBLIC ART 2018 Interventions: Tile and Painting installation, La Plata, Argentina Murals: Sister Cities, Cortex Innovation Center, St. Louis, MO 2017 Mural: Alight on St. Louis, Lambert International Airport, Terminal 2, Baggage Claim , St. Louis, MO Mosaic: Visualizing Algebraic Functions, Williamsburg High School of Arts and Technology, Brooklyn, NY Mural: Bringing Home, Home, Renate Albertsen-Martin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Installation: Visualize Pi, Score, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Mural: Animal Renderings, Sea, Land and Sky, Village of Kassak Sud, Senegal, West Africa Installation: 2-Point Perspective, Williamsburg High School of Arts and Technology, Brooklyn, NY Mural: Visualize Pi: 2-Point Perspective, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Mural: You are Here, Carondelet Neighborhood, St. Louis, MO 2016 Stained Glass Installation: Transformations II,. East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Mural: Visualize Pi Beat, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Mural: You Are Here: Greenpoint: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY Mural: St. Louis Language Immersion School, Marine Villa, St. Louis, MO Installation: Carnahan High School, St. Louis, MO Mural: Tower Grove South Local, for Artscope, Gravios and Spring Ave, St. Louis, MO Mural: Local Foliage, for Artscope, McDonald Park. St. Louis, MO

Curator: Traces, Hand and Machine. Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Installation: 2-Point Perspective, Carnahan High School, St. Louis, MO

Fellow: Community Arts Training Institute: Regional Arts Commission.

St. Louis, MO

Mural: Home, For Behr Paint, about.com commercial, Brooklyn, NY

Committee Member: Strategic Planning: Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Installation: Social Innovation, D4I, The Avenues, Manhattan, NY

Presenter/Lecture: Social Innovation in Schools: The Avenues, NY, NY Selected Artist: Public Art for Public Schools. Percent for Arts, NY, NY

Stained Glass Installation: South Jefferson, St. Louis, MO

ADDOLEY DZEGEDE ARTIST

GARDINER & THEOBALD KEVIN GULVIN gardiner.com

EDUCATION MFA in Visual Art | Sam Fox School of Design + Visual Art Washington University in St Louis, MO, 2015

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2018 (forthcoming) Ballast​, Great Rivers Biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO

BFA in General Fine Arts; Literature minor Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2005

2017 Amalgam​, Resident Arts, Columbia, MO

2016 Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland 2015 Post-Graduate Apprenticeship, Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Foundation Obras, Évoramonte, Portugal 2013 Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland AWARDS 2018 MICA Alumni Association Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Regional Arts Commission Artists Support Grant, St Louis, MO Great Rivers Biennial Award, Contemporary Art Museum + the Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, MO TEACHING 2018 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO - Teaching Artist, Screen Printing Repeat Patterns

2016 Fare Well​, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St Louis, MO

Kevin joined Gardiner & Theobald in 2000. He has a degree in Quantity

Regina Myer became President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

Surveying, is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a member of the Royal

in October 2016. Previously, she served as President of Brooklyn Bridge

Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has been actively involved in all

Park, transforming the formerly industrial Brooklyn waterfront into a

aspects of the construction industry from initial conception through

world-class open space that welcomes millions of visitors a year.

project closeout. He has a keen interest in taking cost control beyond its traditional parameters developing innovative styles of contract

Prior to Brooklyn Bridge Park, Regina was the senior vice president for

Veiddur​, Nes Listamiðstöð, Skagaströnd, Iceland

procurement, schedules, charts, and other documents to assist cost

planning and design at the Hudson Yards Development Corporation,

2015 The Truth is Rude​, The Millitzer Gallery, St Louis, MO (as part of the collaborative duo LAB:D)

forecasting and reporting. Kevin has a strong understanding of the

and the Brooklyn Borough Director for the New York City Planning

detailed reporting requirements needed by city funding and is familiar

Department, where she directed the comprehensive redevelopment

with reviewing multiple public funding sources for single projects. This

for two miles of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront, the rezoning

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Overview is a Place​, SPRING/BREAK Art Show: Stranger Comes to Town, New York, NY

includes a familiarity with VENDEX, labor laws, M/WBE and competitive

of Downtown Brooklyn for high density office and apartments and

bidding requirements. Kevin works with vendors to prepare accurate

numerous neighborhood rezoning efforts.

2017 Grand Prix​, Monaco, St Louis, MO Another Country​, 50/50, Kansas City, MO The Labs @ Chale Wote​, W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture, Accra, Ghana Almost Now, Just Then...​, Projects + Gallery, St Louis, MO Color Key​, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO Ecology without Borders .01​, [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Milan, Italy Surface Forms​, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA Encoded​, Contemporary Art Gallery at Forest Park Community College, St Louis, MO

2017 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS - Lecturer, Fiber Forms

2016 In Deep Ecology​, curated by Marina Fomenko, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Teaching Artist, Contemporary Fiber Practices

Now & After ‘16​, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art, Washington University in St Louis, MO - Lecturer, Textile Design

Reverberations​, Stella Elkins Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO - Teaching Artist, Resist-Dyeing Indigo Workshop

OPERATIONS STRATEGIST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

COST ESTIMATING

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RESIDENCIES AND APPRENTICESHIP 2017-18 University of Kansas, Hashinger Hall Artist-in-Residence, Lawrence, KS

REGINA MYER

Concept/Focus​, curated by Adam Welch, Hardesty Art Center, Tulsa, OK

RECENT PRESS James McAnally, “Staying Put,” [article] Art in America, Nov 2017.

2016 Washington University in St Louis, MO - Teaching Artist, Indigo Workshop

Valerie Schremp Hahn, “2017 Rising Stars: University City artist Addoley Dzegede explores race, identity, home,” ​stltoday.com​, July 27, 2017

Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa OK - Teaching Artist, Pattern Workshop

Willis Ryder Arnold, “Rising artists want viewers to focus on art, not only their race,” s​ tlpublicradio.org​, June 8, 2017

2015 Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL - Teaching Artist, Collaborative Sculpture Workshop

Maggie Kunze, “Nobody’s Home at DEMO Project,” ​http://sixtyinchesfromcenter. org​, May 25, 2017.

The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA - Post-Graduate Apprentice, Screen Printing Workshop

Joe Kohlburn, “On Transgression,” All the Art, Spring, 2017.

Gavin Kroeber, “Encoded,” [review] Art in America, April 2017.

requisition packages for public funding reimbursement.

PROJECT ROLE Director of Cost Estimating EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, Quantity Surveying University of Central England, 1991

SELECTED PROJECTS Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY Goldman Sachs, 30 Hudson Street, NY, NY New York Times HQ, NY, NY

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS BSc MRICS

1515 Broadway , NY, NY

AFFILIATIONS Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Latham & Watkins

Moise Safra Community Center, NY, NY United Nations Capital Masterplan, NY, NY

PROJECT ROLE Operations Strategist Economic Development EDUCATION Master of Urban Planning & Economic Development University of Michigan, 1984 Bachelor of Arts University of Michigan, 1982 AFFILIATIONS Member | Taubman College Alumni Society Board of Governors, University of Michigan, 1998-2006 Member | NYC and Company Board of Directors, 2014-present Member | Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 2017 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2016-present Downtown Brooklyn Partnership • Chief Executive Officer for a not-for-profit local development corporation that is the primary champion for Downtown Brooklyn as a world-class business, cultural, educational, residential, and retail destination.

• Manage the DBP Board of Directors comprised of close to 60 area business, real estate, academic

and cultural leaders; and three BID Boards of Directors comprised of property owners, merchants, residents and other stakeholders; • Develop a vision for supporting the next phase of Downtown Brooklyn’s growth focused on networking abundant yet disparate investment into a model 21st century community. Execute a plan for how the organization evolves to meet these goals; • Develop an agenda of public policies and priorities related to the future economic growth of the area, including infrastructure development, land use, transportation planning, workforce development, investment attraction; • Oversee day to day operations an annual budget of $11.5 million and an administrative/programmatic staff of approximately 30; ranging from internal administration to BID service delivering comprised of sizable sanitation and public safety teams; • Serve as the Downtown Brooklyn community’s chief liaison to the Mayor’s Office, City agencies and other public entities.

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PUBLIC POLICY SPECIALIST MOLLY METZGER

WM TAO & ASSOCIATES STEVE ANDERT

PhD, ASST. PROFESSOR

PE, MIES, IALD, LEED AP BD+C

WM TAO & ASSOCIATES JON WHITACRE PE

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PROJECT ROLE Public Policy Specialist EDUCATION Ph.D., Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2012 B.A., Women’s Studies (minor in South Asian Studies), Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2001 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Faculty Fellow, Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement Washington University in St. Louis, 2016–present Faculty Director for Inclusive Housing, Center for Social Development, 2014–present Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, 2012–present AWARDS Christopher Harris Youth Advocacy Award, Missouri House of Representatives. Awarded by Rep. Bruce Franks, Jr. LINK, 2017 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award, Gephardt Institute of Civic and Community Engagement, Washington University in St. Louis, 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015 GRANTS Community-based Teaching and Learning Grant, Gephardt Institute’s Civic Engagement Fund, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016 Inclusive Housing Initiative. Funded by the Center for Social Development, the Brown School, and the Office of the Provost at Washington University, 2015 Pilot Grant, Center for Diabetes Translation Research, 2014 Arlene Stiffman Junior Faculty Award, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2013

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Graduate Research Fellowship, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2007-2012 SELECTED PROJECTS PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE Swanstrom, T., Webber, H. S., & Metzger, M. W. (2016). Rebound neighborhoods in older industrial cities: The case of St. Louis. In Economic Mobility: Research and Ideas on Strengthening Families, Communities, and the Economy (pp.

312-351). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

EDITED VOLUMES Metzger, M. W., & Webber, H. S. (Eds.; under contract). Toward Solving Segregation: A Policy Agenda for Housing and Urban Neighborhoods.

New York: Oxford University Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS Metzger, M. W. (2016). Learning to live together: Connecting the classroom to the community for racial justice in housing. In W. F. Tate IV, N. Staudt, & A. Macrander (Eds.), The crisis of race in higher education: A day of discovery and dialogue. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Rank, M., & Metzger, M. W. (2015).

Social welfare and politics. In M. Shally-Jensen (Ed.), American political culture: An encyclopedia.

Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press.

POLICY BRIEFS AND RESEARCH BRIEFS Bouncing between homes: Hypermobility and its impact on children’s education and communities at large. Policy Brief, Clark-Fox Policy Institute, Child Well-being Series.

DeWind, C., Dickey, J., O’Neill, E., & Metzger, M. W. (2016). Tax abatement in St. Louis: Reforms could foster equitable development. (CSD Policy Brief 15-47). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Metzger, M. W., Fowler, P. J., & Kelberman, B. (2015). Moving during adolescence: Even “upward” moves predict high school dropout. (CSD Research Brief 15-52). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Kantor, N., & Metzger, M. W. (2015).

Evicting victims: Reforming St. Louis’ nuisance ordinance for survivor s of domestic violence. (CSD Policy Brief 15-47). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Metzger, M. W. (2014). Section 8 housing in the St. Louis region: Local opportunities to expand housing choice (CSD Policy Brief 14-29).

St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Metzger, M., W., & Harris, N. (accepted for 2018). Fighting for government transparency and racial equity in the use of local tax incentives: A St. Louis case study. Urban Affairs Association Conference, Toronto.

Coffin, S., Metzger, M. W., Reilly, R., & Andrews, A. (2016). Zoning and (un) sustainability in the St. Louis Region: A critical pedagogical approach.

Urban Affairs Association Conference, San Diego.

Webber, H., & Metzger, M. W. (2015).

STL’s rebounding neighborhoods: What can we do to preserve affordability and diversity? SLACO Regional Neighborhoods Conference, St. Louis.

GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY March 14, 2018. “Tax Increment Financing in Missouri.” Testimony to the Committee on Local Government, Missouri House of Representatives.

June 13, 2017. Testimony regarding Resolution 33 for interim incentive reform. Presented to St. Louis Board of Aldermen – Housing, Urban Development, and Zoning Committee.

November 2, 2016. “Fair Housing, Clawback Provisions, and Racial Equity.” Testimony to St. Louis TIF Commission.

May 18, 2016. Testimony in support of Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

Ways and Means Committee, St. Louis Board of Alders.

February 4, 2015. Testimony in support of Board Bills 235 and 260. Presented to St. Louis Board of Aldermen – Housing, Urban Development, and Zoning Committee.

PUBLIC TALKS AND PANELS September 12, 2017. Faculty colloquium. “Democratizing Research: An Agenda for Racial Equity in Housing.” Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis.

August 15, 2017. Invited panelist.

“The New Federal and State Administrations: The First Six Months.” St. Louis OASIS. “What is TIF?” Invited presentation: Multiple presentations.

June 1, 2017. Invited panelist.

“What are Community Benefits Agreements?” Event co-hosted

by Forward Through Ferguson, SLEHCRA, and Team TIF. April 14, 2017. Organizer and moderator. “Online Tools for Political Mobilization.” Tools for Democracy Series, Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement.

April 6, 2017. Organizing committee member and panel moderator.

“Evicted: Poverty and Fair Housing in St. Louis.” Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council, Annual Fair Housing Training Conference.

December 12, 2016. Invited “postelection” panel discussion. Diversity and Inclusion Forum for Faculty and Staff, Washington University in St. Louis.

Steve is a Professional Engineer with over 25 years experience in

Mr. Whitacre has been a practicing mechanical engineer for over 35

MEPF project management, sustainable design, architectural lighting

years with experience in engineering and design of building mechanical

and electrical engineering. He has managed numerous projects, from

systems. He designs heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems

concept through construction, across diverse project types including

for a variety of building types including cultural, food service, and

municipal, institutional, cultural, historic, academic and corporate

performance venues. John’s projects range is size and scale from

facilities both interior and exterior. His expertise in architectural

multiple smaller projects with phase construction for corporate,

engineering gives him a comprehensive understanding of building

academic and healthcare campuses to single facilities exceeding

systems which are fully integrated into the architectural vision, project

750,000 square feet. His experience includes HVAC master planning,

budget, maintenance, and sustainability goals. Managing and designing

systems evaluation, selection and design.

projects for the St. Louis Art Museum, Ballpark Village, Jewell Box, The Muny, WUSM campuses gives Steve firsthand knowledge of the processes and resources required to perform innovative work within the St. Louis City limits to enhance the community.

PROJECT ROLE Mechanical & Plumbing Engineer

SELECTED PROJECTS St. Louis Public Library Renovation, St. Louis, MO

PROJECT ROLE Mechanical & Plumbing Engineer

SELECTED PROJECTS St. Louis Public Library Renovation, St. Louis, MO

EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas

Washington University School of Medicine Public Realm Streetscape Improvements, St. Louis, MO

EDUCATION B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

Washington University St. Louis – Knight and Bauer Halls Business School Expansion, St. Louis, MO

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Registered Professional Engineer in Missouri

TD Ameritrade, Headquarters, Operations & Training Center, LEED Platinum, Omaha, NE

Registered Professional Engineer in Illinois

Missouri Department of Conservation Headquarters, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer (PE), Missouri LEED Accredited Professional AFFILIATIONS Professional Member, International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Full Member, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) United States Green Building Council (USGBC) National Society of Architectural Engineers Guest Speaker, Washington University School of Architecture Guest Speaker, United States Green Building Council, St. Louis Chapter

Washington University St. Louis – Knight and Bauer Halls Business School Expansion, St. Louis, MO Logan College Campus Improvements, St. Louis, MO St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO St. Louis BPS Park Improvement Projects, St. Louis, MO The Muny, St. Louis, MO

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Missouri Botanical Gardens Shaw Arboretum Visitors Center, Gray Summit, Missouri

HYDRO DRAMATICS KERRY FRIEDMAN

M3-EG MARC ESHELMAN

BIO HABITATS KEITH BOWERS

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biohabitats.com

Hydro Dramatics is The Fountain Division of Missouri Machinery and

Mr. Eshelman has 33 years of experience in environmental, green

In 1982, Mr. Bowers founded Biohabitats, Inc., a design and consulting

Mr. Morgereth has over two decades of experience in natural resource

Engineering in St. Louis, MO. Hydro Dramatics was started in 1971 by

infrastructure, roadway, site, stormwater and utility study and design.

firm exclusively focused on conservation planning, ecological restoration

assessment and planning, and ecological restoration. This includes

the former owner, Marvin Goldstein. Marvin, an innovator who designed

He has been the project manager or lead engineer for construction

and sustainable design. He has a broad, comprehensive background

wetland restoration, reforestation, shoreline stabilization, native

the Floating Fountain and who also made extensive use of submersible

document preparation, feasibility studies, master planning, and has

in restoration ecology, conservation biology, ecological planning, and

vegetation establishment, invasive species management, wildlife habitat

pumps in fountains, started the Fountain Division when he realized how

performed work for a variety of public and private clients in St. Louis.

landscape architecture, which he has applied to more than 600 projects

enhancement, and stream restoration. His experience includes wetland

throughout North America. These projects have involved tidal and

resource investigation, planning, restoration design, implementation

non-tidal wetlands, deciduous woodlands, streams and rivers, meadows

oversight, and monitoring. Mr. Morgereth has performed delineations,

Kerry Friedman, with his many years of pump, control and fountain

and prairies, and coastal habitats. He has developed conservation plans

characterizations, and functional assessments of tidal and non-tidal

experience, directs the Fountain Division. Hydro Dramatics is the

to mitigate for the impacts of habitat fragmentation and preserve and

wetlands throughout the eastern United States. Mr. Morgereth is

fountain consultant choice of many architects, landscape architects and

restore biodiversity; ecologically sustainable and regenerative master

knowledgeable in wetland and waterway permitting as well as

engineers throughout the United States and abroad.

planning strategies for residential and commercial development, parks,

environmental impact assessment. He has worked in accordance with

campuses and greenways; and the habitat restoration to save critically

Sections 404 and 401 of the Clean Water Act, in addition to State and

imperiled plant species.

local regulations

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PE

fountains naturally tied into the pump and control business.

PROJECT ROLE Water Feature Consultant EDUCATION Engineer Graduate, University of Missouri – Rolla

SELECTED PROJECTS Gateway Geiser, East St. Louis, IL Forest Park Grand Basin and Government Hill Renovation, St. Louis, MO America the Beautiful Park Fountain, Colorado Springs, CO Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA Melon Square,Pittsburgh, PA Center Street, Goldsboro, NC CityGarden, St. Louis, MO Smale Riverfront Project, Cincinnati, OH Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO Chicago Botanical Gardens Glencoe, IL Parks Departments, St. Louis City St. Louis County Cincinnati ,OH Wichita, KS Omaha, NE Chicago, IL Memphis, TN River Parks Tulsa, OK Ottumwa, IA Burlington, IA Cedar Rapids, IA Central Park, Derby, KS Green Square, Cedar Rapids, IA

FASLA, PLA, PWS

PROJECT ROLE Hydrology Engineer

SELECTED PROJECTS Great Rivers Greenway Maline Trail, St. Louis, MO, Project Manager

PROJECT ROLE Ecologist

EDUCATION Master of Science, Civil Engineering (Hydrology and Hydraulics), University of Missouri Rolla, 1991

Green Infrastructure Pilot Program, St. Louis MSD, Project Manager

EDUCATION B.S., Landscape Architecture, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1982

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Missouri Rolla, 1985 PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Professional Engineer, Illinois, No. 062-054356 Issued: 12/04/2000, Professional Engineer, Missouri, No. 023795 Issued: 03/01/1990, AFFILIATIONS American Public Works Association (APWA), Member Engineer’s Club, St. Louis Chapter, President Elect Missouri Water Environment Association, Member

Grand Center Great Streets Initiative, St. Louis, MO, Project Engineer Streambank Stabilization (B), St. Louis MSD, Project Manager Comprehensive Stormwater Master Plan, St. Charles, MO, Project Manager Chesterfield Valley Master Drainage Plan, Chesterfield, MO, Lead Engineer Wentzville Stormwater Master Plan, Wentzville, MO, Project Manager Mississippi River Floodplain Study, Kimmswick, MO, Lead Engineer

BIO HABITATS ED MORGERETH

TECHNICAL TRAINING Rosgen Levels I-IV, Wildland Hydrology, Inc., 1993 SELECTED PROJECTS Forest Park Natural Resources Management Plan, St. Louis, MO

Honorary Degree: Landscape Design, Conway School of Landscape Design - outstanding contribution to the planet in creating more sustainable landscapes through ecological restoration, regenerative design, and conservation planning

North Delaware Riverfront Greenway, Philadelphia, PA

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Maryland Landscape Architect, Registration #RLA-620, 1985

Columbia Town Center Sustainability Program, Howard County, MD

Delaware Landscape Architect, I.D. #S1-254 Ohio Landscape Architect, #L-00-00959, 2000 North Carolina Landscape Architect, License #1172, 2001 South Carolina Landscape Architect, License #LSA 1220, 2016

Delaware City Eco-Tourism and Ecological Restoration Plan, New Castle County, DE Pittsburgh Regional Parks Master Plan, Pittsburgh, PA

Environmental Mapping/Ecological Assessment/Infrastructure Planning for the Carolina North Property, Chapel Hill, NC RiverBend Commerce Park Site Development Plan, Buffalo, NY

PROJECT ROLE Ecologist

SELECTED PROJECTS Forest Park Natural Resources Management Plan, St. Louis, MO

EDUCATION M.S., ISS-Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1996

Louisville Southwest Greenways Master Plan, Louisville, KY

B.S., Natural Science/Environmental Science, Towson University, Towson, MD, 1989 A.A., Community College of Baltimore County, Essex Campus, Baltimore, MD, 1987 PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS Maryland Forest Conservation Act Forest Stand Delineation and Conservation Plan Development Qualified Professional Status, 1992.

North Delaware Riverfront GreenwayLardner’s Point Park, Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh Regional Parks Natural Areas Study, Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Regional Parks Master Plan, Pittsburgh, PA New York City Combined Sewer Overflow-PlaNYC Green Infrastructure Initiative— Ecological Restoration Pilots, New York City, NY Forest Management Plan for Gwynns Falls—Leakin Park, Baltimore City, MD Floyds Fork Parks, Open Space, & Trails Master Plan, Louisville, KY Bee Tree Preserve Master Planning Visioning, Baltimore, MD Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve Climate Change Adaptation Plan, New Castle County and Kent County, DE

Kentucky Landscape Architect, Certification #616, 2000 Pennsylvania Landscape Architect, License #LA-001668-R, 2001 Tennessee Landscape Architect, License #724, 2004 Texas Landscape Architect #2165, 2003 Professional Wetland Scientist, Registration #000779, SWS

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