Washington University Medical Center (WUMC) continues its commitment to improving the gateways into Forest Park Southeast. Brooks Goedeker, community development manager for WUMC, has been working with Confluence Design to introduce new planters to the neighborhood. Confluence Design is a custom design & fabrication studio, which utilizes emerging digital design & traditional fabrication technologies. […]
Saturday, May 14th, 2011 the Tour de Grove will be racing though one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in St. Louis-The Grove. The professional bicycling race will feature the fastest male and female cyclists from the United States competing to win a overall purse of $25,000. It is the highest paying, single day race in […]
The Grand Bridge is closing Monday, March 14, 2011 before the morning rush hour at 5am. The route closure will affect 30,000 drivers for roughly 14 months as a new bridge is constructed. On the official press release St. Louis Mayor Slay’s stated, “The signed detour for the Grand Bridge closure will be on Compton […]
The Grove mural project continues with completed designs for the first two murals. The project is being led by 11 to 14 year old Forest Park Southeast residents at the Hoover Boys & Girls Club. The project is funded by St. Cronan’s and the Grove Community Improvement District. Below is a three minute video interview […]
Euclid Avenue in the Central West End is scheduled for a major “Green” makeover. The stretch between Lindell and Forest Park will eventually be transformed with wider sidewalks, environmentally friendly rain gardens and new LED lighting just to name a few. The first phase of the new streetscape is being installed as a part of […]
WUMCRC’s Community Development Manager, Brooks Goedeker and intern, Matt Green have been working with the City of St. Louis and Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) to take the traffic signal boxes within Forest Park Southeast and turn them into something a little more attractive. Both Goedeker and Green will be presenting the concept and designs […]
Last Fall, WUMCRC’s Community Development Manager, Brooks Goedeker wrote a successful grant funded by the St. Cronan Housing Corporation and the Grove Community Improvement District. The project partners Forest Park Southeast adolescents from the Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club with local artist, Grace McCammond to design and implement 4 murals along Manchester Avenue in […]
Warmer weather has finally arrived in the Grove! The Manchester streetscape improvement project has crawled out of hibernation from the cold and brand new pedestrian street lighting is being installed today. The streetscape is really shaping up!
In November 2010, Gelinda Connell joined the newly created Park Central Development Corporation (PCDC) as the project manager of security and social services. Gelinda assists in creating a more unified community by collaborating with the residents of the 17th ward. Spending the past decade of her life in and out of the 17th ward, she […]
Choices Federal Credit Union is an instrumental financial institution in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. The credit union has successfully served the employees, clients and volunteers of eight area organizations that offer social services for low-income communities.
