
Pocketparks aims to beautify St. Louis, one vacant lot at a time
St. Louis on the Air
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Building a Community Through Public Engagement
Street activation is a new way of using vacant spaces to bring people together. It's not as simple as interior designing, where you just have to get the home owner's permission. We do a lot of events and pop ups, showing people the opportunities of vacant space. So it starts with the community and it ends with the community. And what's great is that we work on a really lean and mean model. The parks can continue to evolve and be up datedThe organization received a ten thousand dollar grant from the downtown community improvement district.
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