Trailnet Print

2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces

Project Description

This project includes altering a closed portion of Laclede Avenue to install a parklet with public seating, placemaking, and planters. These improvements will shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians, offer a safe resting place for cyclists, and create a new inviting public space for customers and visitors.

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St. Louis, MO

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Transportation

Description: Pop-up demonstrations were used to build support for the development of improved public transit.

East St. Louis, MO

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2021

Project Category: Diversity and inclusion

Description: This project willtransform a current light rail and bus station into an active space that promotes creative play, cultivatescommunity and increases transit use while building a more equitable space that touts the history and culture of East St.Louis.

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