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Project Overview
The Hodiamont Tracks were once the route of a streetcar line and in later years a bus route. While the bus route is no longer active, the 3.5 mile corridor has the potential to become a greenway that would link the St. Vincent and the future Brickline Greenways.
Video Update, January 2024:
Project Location
The tracks start on Enright Avenue, one block west of Vandeventer in the Grand Center Arts District and continue west 3.5 miles connecting the Vandeventer, Lewis Place, Fountain Park, Academy/Sherman Park, Visitation Park and West End neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis to Gwen Giles Park at the city limit. In addition to connecting to existing and future greenways, it would link numerous schools, parks, houses of worship and neighborhoods.
Project Partners
Community members in West End, Visitation Park, Academy/Sherman Park, Fountain Park, Lewis Place Vandeventer and Covenant Blu/Grand Center neighborhoods (21 people from each of the seven neighborhoods were selected from a pool of 70 applicants to create an advisory committee. These neighbors met six times during the pandemic to help guide the planning process.)
- Great Rivers Greenway
- Bi-State Development Agency
- City of St. Louis
Current Status
This project is currently in the early planning and design phase.
Throughout 2020-21, Great Rivers Greenway and community members worked together to create a conceptual greenway plan (“concept plan”) for the Hodiamont Greenway. The Concept Plan Process identified project goals that are being used to drive design.
View Principles, Goals, and Objectives
View Concept Plan for Greenway on the Tracks (large file)
View Plan Appendices, Includes Community Engagement & Existing Conditions (large file)
Watch the video to learn more about the concept plan:
Community Engagement
Community engagement is critical to the design process to make sure the community drives design. Thanks to everyone who has participated to date! Since this project was launched in 2018, we have engaged with the community in the surrounding neighborhoods in the following ways:
- listening tours
- pop up office hours
- trash bash
- volunteer events
- public meetings.
What We’ve Heard
From door-to-door conversations with neighbors of the Hodiamont Tracks in 2018 asking if they would like a greenway in this space to community meetings in 2019 to hear greenway desires and concerns to office hours on the Hodiamont Tracks in 2020, community members continue to share your hopes and dreams for the future greenway on the former Hodiamont Tracks.