Chouteau Greenway JCFO Display Boards (PDF)

LINDELL BLVD

Project Partners
Arch to Park Collaborative

1 forest PORCH

Forest Park Forever
Great Rivers Greenway

2 forest LOUNGE

7 Delmar main street

5 SPRING FLYOVER

9 performance park

Green Street St. Louis

JAMES
CORNER
FIELD
OPERATIONS
& TEAM

St. Louis University
Washington University Medical Center
Redevelopment Corporation
City of St. Louis
Grand Center, Inc.

chouteau
greenway
braid

Great Rivers Greenway Foundation
Lawrence Group

9’
planting

10’
westbound
lane

10’
turning lane

10’
eastbound
lane

5’
planted
buffer

10’
2-way
cycle track

15’
forest park
planting

10’
forest park
dual path

forest park

We are in the homeland of the Osage Nation,
Missouria, Otoe, Iowa people, and Sac and Fox
Nation. Born visitors upon a land many of us
have only known, and call home. Where the
Mississippi runs through, so bridges were built
to ensure our connection.
Just as the winds blow from the north, south,
east, and west, we must now create and crossnew paths to celebrate our past, present, and
what’s to come. Allow movement to flow us
into one another’s histories. Hold in our hands,
nature native to this space, the culture created
within and throughout, interwoven with a
spirit growing.
St. Louis
Art Museum

-Cheeraz Gorman

the
green
line

micro-habitats
bird totems
insect hotels
soil building
butterfly gar-

8 railyards park

Grand Basin

EUCLID COURT

the
social
line
bike amenities
bike repair
water bottle fillers
bike parking
bike share

paving

12’
Forest Park
Shared

“Where the Mississippi runs through, so bridges were built
to ensure connection.”
This project is all about connection – connecting people
to nature, to one another and to future potentials. Inspired
by the input and enthusiasm of community members
who described St. Louis as a City of Neighborhoods, the
Greenway should be more than just a trail – it should be
a connector, a thread that stiches and ties, an ecological
corridor, an economic generator, a “river” that brings
energy, vitality and equity to the urban mosaic.

seating
shade
communal gathering

paving

plugged-in
work stations
wifi
device charging
safety help point

10’
cafe zone

5’
clear
path

4’
amenity
furnishing

20’
clear for
one-way
vehicle

5’
clear
path

4’
amenity
furnishing

Toward this end, we propose not one thread, but three
intertwined corridors that fold and braid to join and bind
together the fabric of the City: Chouteau Greenway Braid.
The first of these is “The Green Line,” a soft ecological
corridor featuring a restored Prairie meadow along its entire
length, while supporting continuous bicycle and pedestrian
experiences of nature, health and wellbeing. The second is
“The Social Line,” a more urban sequence of spaces woven
through with culture, art, education, infrastructure and civic
life. Here we propose an alignment that emphatically helps
to bridge and repair the division north and south of Delmar,
creating a 2-mile long Delmar Main Street as a strategy for
investment in bike/pedestrian pathways, recreation, transit,
open space, and economic development that is cognizant
of both micro-market conditions and land ownership. The
third line is the existing MetroLink corridor, in recognition of
the crucial role that transit plays in bringing regional scale
accessibility and mobility into the main Greenway Braid. As
with the individual strands of a braid, these three lines work
together to strengthen and enhance each other, resulting
in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

10’
cafe zone

FOREST PARK AVE.
lighting

micro-settings

storage
maintenance yards
gardening tools
equipment

rest area
shaded seating
safety help points
drinking fountains
wifi

lighting

micro-settings

media
art
information
maps & directions

play
community amenities
interactive features

22’
Westbound
Traffic

10’
Pedestrian
Path

15’
Planted
Median

8’
2’
Cycle Buffer
Track

In addition, we propose over 6-miles of north-south
Connectors that reach deeper into the city fabric to further
connect neighborhoods to the central corridor and make
critical links to the larger regional trail and park network.
Three new bridges and a series of underpasses allow for
safe and inspired crossings over and under the spaghetti
of highways and rail lines that divide the central corridor.
Together, this 22-mile braided system supports multiple
journeys and experiences, working to stitch the city
together, east to west, north to south, over and under.

22’
Eastbound
Traffic

DELMAR BLVD
scott joplin house

4 arts trestle

3 woodland ‘y’ bridge

A number of memorable places proposed along the
Greenway Braid build off of existing resources and proximity
to technology and innovation, arts and culture, education
and health, natural resources and industrial heritage.
“Forest Porch” and “Forest Lounge” create welcoming
entries into Forest Park and provide a strong connection
to Washington University and existing transit hubs. An
abandoned rail trestle over Vandeventer is reused as a new
“Arts Trestle”, featuring an elevated greenway on top and
artist and maker studios underneath.

8’
frontage
sidewalk

8’
2-way
bike

10’
amenity
flex zone

10’
westbound

8’
planted
buffer

Four distinct development nodes introduce Plug-in Parks
and Creative Commons to enliven Delmar as a new Main
Street. A 26-acre “Railyards Park” includes an 800m long
recreational track and art mural, an Overlook and Glade
Garden, and a Prairie Channel that filters stormwater.
A 12-acre downtown tract becomes a new “Performance
Park” showcasing both ecological and social performance
including large meadows, rain gardens, a terraced
amphitheater for outdoor performances, and a skate
park under the highway. Finally, a 360 degree-panoramic
“Mississippi Overlook” hovers within the MacArthur Bridge
structure, revealing dramatic new views to the River and
Arch and highlighting an accessible connection across the
Interstate and down to the existing Mississippi Greenway.

10’
eastbound
vehicle

spring ave.

All in all, the project aspires to re-connect the neighborhoods
and communities of St Louis, to bring new life and vitality
to how people relate to nature, to one another and to civic
life. Chouteau Greenway Braid is the tissue that binds,
“interwoven with a spirit growing.”
15’
Sidewalk

the social line

10’
Northbound
Traffice

10’
Turning
Lane

10’
Southbound
Traffice

2’
Buffer

10’
Cycle Track

9 performance park

14th st.

the green line

2’
Buffer

8’
Cycle Track

Existing Sidewalk

market st.

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0

3 WOODLAND Y BRIDGE
2’
Buffer

8’
Cycle Track

4 ARTS TRESTLE

1 mile
1000

2000

3000

4000

5000 ft

6 PROSPECT YARDS BRIDGE

8 RAILYARDS PARK

10 MISSISSIPPI OVERLOOK

9 performance park

10 mississippi overlook