2012 Winners
Bistro Box

The Bistro Box concept is a small business incubator that transforms surplus cargo containers into a compact restaurant and culinary destina...
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Chess Pocket Park

Offers fun, active, strategic chess play to children and residents of Old North....
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Mighty Mississippians

The Mighty Mississippians utilizes this lot in two ways: a demonstration garden using native plant selections or their relatives historicall...
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Sunflower+ Project

The Sunflower+ Project: StL turns previously developed urban lots into a community asset through the planting of sunflowers. With a goal of...
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Renewing Roots Urban Farm

Our Farm is tailored to address the characteristics of North St. Louis City, offer a viable solution for reversing blight, add taxable entre...
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2012 Finalists
Carbon Carpet

Proposal to plant a native grass + forb garden using 5″ deep cell plant plugs. Mimic the pattern of a Persian Rug (hard geometry, bilatera...
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HUB: Hybrid Urban Bioscapes

The team developed a palette of possible landscape and recreational interventions that can be implemented in vacant lots....
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shiftUP

shiftUP would be a community space to rent, maintain, and learn about bicycles. As a bike hub, shiftUP would encourage bikers from other par...
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2012 Semi-Finalists
Urban Beautification Warriers

We propose that this space be transformed into a giant walk-through kaleidoscope. The area can be used for many purposes; i.e.: event space,...
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Interactive Living Landscape

We aim to demonstrate that vacant lots can be aesthetically landscaped to provide self-maintaining public gathering spaces that not only hea...
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Activating Capacities

We seek to develop design prototypes which can be projected into a larger vision for re-modeling energy and water infrastructures at neighbo...
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CORE

An economic opportunity for neighborhood residents to set up a light manufacturing and retail enterprise in a movable, temporary, green buil...
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NEXtUS!

Access to information, education and people can be leveraged to increase life opportunities. Areas of vacant land separate people and limit ...
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Old North Resource Library

We propose a modular, mobile resource center for materials and knowledge for neighborhood residents, property owners, businesses, employees ...
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Remaining Submissions
- SPORE’s Rehabilitation Hub
- Project Flyway
- STL ABC
- Type(scapes)
- Appleseed Project
- St. Louis FORWARD
- Refab
- Off Paper
- Community-Oriented Infrastructure
- Ground Incision
- Kit House
- Sand Lot
- BambooLAB
- Mound City
- Aqua Botanical
- The Food Deck
- Yin-Yang
- x-studio
- Native Species Living Lab
- Sustainable Nectaring Garden
- Water Fountains for Peace
- Team ‘Herben’ Garden
- Sunflower Power
- STL Alley Lovers
- Confluence Square
- Light Polls: Illuminating the Vote
- Empower Your Neighbor
- CLOUD drop
- Growing Together
- Northside Tool Library
- VoidedBy
- Wong, Morley, Kalahele & Sorenson
- Movie Night
- MLAWU