Brickline Greenway – Info & Updates

$5 million for Brickline Greenway is included in the State of Missouri’s Capital Improvement Budget, giving a major boost to the $245 million project’s momentum and bringing it nearly to its halfway-funded mark.

“This $5 million investment provides powerful momentum for the Brickline Greenway, which is being brought to life with input from thousands of residents, businesses and organizations who understand how civic infrastructure boosts the economy and vibrancy of our city and our state,” said Susan Trautman, Great Rivers Greenway CEO. “We’re so grateful for this bipartisan effort, championed by Rep. Dean Plocher and Sens. Karla May, Lincoln Hough, and Steven Roberts, and for Gov. Mike Parson and Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe’s support and approval of this funding.”

“Brickline Art: A Working Plan for Art on the Brickline Greenway” establishes Brickline Art as the greenway’s art program and describes how art can help achieve the Brickline Greenway’s ambitions to impact individual well-being and the vitality of the community.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation awards $9.9 million construction matching funds from their Reconnecting Communities & Neighborhoods grant program to the Brickline Greenway project to rebuild Spring Avenue as a greenway bridge between the two decks of I-64/40 in 2027 / 2028!

Thank you to Congresswoman Cori Bush for her support and partners City of St. Louis and Missouri Department of Transportation for their collaboration on this opportunity to literally bridge a major barrier, reconnecting countless destinations! The Brickline Greenway, a major $245 million public-private partnership, is now 44% funded.

Community engagement is a core value of Great Rivers Greenway. During 2023, the Brickline Greenway engagement team participated in 445 meetings and events with local leaders, neighbors, technical experts, artists, philanthropists, residents, elected officials and business owners. Successful engagement throughout the greenway planning and design process leads to increased community support, pride and ownership, trust in local government, cost-savings by getting it right, and simply put…better projects.

Guided by community feedback, our Banner Art Working Group has chosen designs by 4 local artist finalists for temporary streetlight banners along Grand Avenue from Natural Bridge to Cass: Jamie Bonfiglio, Jen Everett, Andrea Hughes, and Marquis Terrell. The banners, to be installed along North Grand soon, will mark a segment of the Brickline Greenway: North Connector, which will begin construction in 2025.

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Through interviews with former Mill Creek Valley residents who were children at the time of the neighborhood’s demolition starting in 1959, PBS NewsHour uncovers stories from Mill Creek families and neighbors, their experiences of displacement by urban renewal, and the role the Brickline Greenway and Damon Davis’ art installation Pillars of the Valley play in honoring this history.

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