Great Rivers Greenway, City of Wellston, Beyond Housing, National Recreation & Parks Association, St. Louis County Parks and all of the other partners, vendors and community members that helped to bring Trojan Park to life are honored to share that the park is one of the two Urban Land Institute’s 2020 Urban Open Space Award Winners!

Not only is this a great honor to be recognized among world-class parks, but this award also comes with a gift of $10,000, which will go to the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation to support operations and maintenance of Trojan Park. (See the other 8 amazing parks across the country selected as finalists from 50 applicants.)

If you have not yet had the pleasure of visiting Trojan Park, it’s part of the St. Vincent Greenway in Wellston, at Skinker & Etzel. The best part about this park is how many people use and love it. The second best part is how many partners came together to make it happen. You can read about it, see photos and watch a video right here: https://greatriversgreenway.org/trojan/.

“Equitably accessible quality open spaces are increasingly understood as vital to the physical, social and economic health of urban neighborhoods,” said Jury Chairman Antonio Fiol-Silva, founding principal of SITIO architecture + urbanism in Philadelphia.  “In their own particular contexts Domino and Trojan Parks are two brilliant examples of the profoundly positive impact that such spaces can have in the lives of their communities.  That both civic spaces are the product of private sector initiatives makes then even more remarkable.”

Read the full press release from Urban Land Institute (ULI) here: https://americas.uli.org/200909uosawinners/