Brickline Greenway - Clayton Ave
St. Louis, MO
One Mile. A Lot of City to Hold Together.
The Brickline Greenway's Clayton Avenue segment runs one mile. In that mile, it passes through the edges of Washington University School of Medicine, BJC HealthCare, Shriners Children's, the Cortex Innovation District, a MetroLink station, and several neighborhoods — before arriving at Forest Park, one of the largest urban parks in the country. Geographically, these places are already close. The corridor between them has never made that proximity feel real.
Client
Great Rivers Greenway
Size
1.1 Mile
Acknowledgement
Work Completed by the Kanopi Gap team while Employed at LJC Design & Engineering
The design task is not simply to build a trail. It is to remake a mile of urban corridor into a public realm that workers, patients, students, transit riders, and park visitors can all move through safely and comfortably. Street and intersection improvements address the crossings where pedestrians and cyclists are most exposed. Accessibility is resolved at every transition. Planting, lighting, and drainage work together rather than as separate contracts. Site furnishings and signage establish the Brickline's identity at key moments along the route.
Two nodes anchor the experience. The intersection of Boyle and Clayton is one — a place where the greenway's direction shifts and where the institutions around it converge. The approach to Forest Park at Kingshighway is the other: a threshold that should feel like an arrival, not just the end of the sidewalk. Both are being designed as identifiable places within the corridor rather than unmarked points along a line.
