Greenway Construction Progress

• Together with the City of Olivette, we broke ground on the new greenway in Warson Park! This is the first phase of a greenway extension project that will connect the park to the existing Centennial Greenway at Olive and I-170. Learn more here.
• We broke ground on two of the three projects that will close the gap between the existing sections of the St. Vincent Greenway and create a continuous paved route between Forest Park and the University of Missouri-St. Louis! The first is the connection from the greenway in St. Vincent County Park to the Rock Road Transit Center along St. Charles Rock Rd. The second is a half mile extension from Trojan Park to Robert. L. Powell Place in Wellston. See the St. Vincent Greenway Master Plan here.
• The vibrant green Visitor Services building at Kiener Plaza is complete, offering seasonal retail, visitor services, storage and a high-visibility workspace for the 24/7 on-site security. Read all about it here.

Conservation Update

• With the help of partner organizations across the region, 1753 volunteers removed 45 tons of trash from public lands, greenways & waterways, planted 471 native trees and shrubs, and cleared nearly an acre of invasive plants.
• Our partnership with Americorps St. Louis cleared nearly 23 acres of invasive species and planted 161 native trees and shrubs along six greenways—enhancing the area for wildlife and visitors alike!
• Together with the City of Maplewood, we kicked off a streambank restoration project along the Deer Creek Greenway that will improve water quality in Deer Creek and drainage in Deer Creek Park.
• Learn more about our conservation work here. Want to get involved? Learn more about volunteer opportunities here.

Strategic Plan

As part of the strategic planning effort we undertake every five years, we conducted civic engagement activities to make sure we’re on track and looking forward to the next 5, 10 and 20 years:

• More than 6600 people weighed in on the initial survey in 2021. See the responses here.
• We convened workshops with a Community Advisory Committee, Conservation Technical Advisory Committee, and Public Safety Technical Advisory Committee to develop recommendations.
• We continued to advance strategies to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion across all regional plan issue areas and in our day-to-day work. Read our full diversity, equity and inclusion plan here.
• This planning effort will wrap up in the first part of 2022; we will keep you posted on how you can provide your crucial input!

Brickline Programs

In October, we joined St. Louis City SC, Harris-Stowe State University, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, local author Vivian Gibson and local artist Damon Davis to share plans to commemorate the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood in its former footprint along a one-mile stretch of the future Brickline Greenway along Market Street between Compton Avenue and 22nd Street. We hosted a panel discussion to talk about how this once thriving neighborhood of 20,000 Black residents was demolished in the name of “urban renewal” and the monuments that will rise along the greenway to tell this important story. Watch “A Conversation about Art, History & Community Along the Brickline Greenway” here.

We launched the “Behind the Brickline Greenway” Podcast to tell the story of how the Brickline Greenway is connecting St. Louis to a future of equity, growth, sustainability and potential. Listen to all 45 episodes at Audible, iheart & apple podcasts.