Saint Paul on the Mississippi Development Framework
Saint Paul, Minnesota

CLOSE Landscape Architecture+ was the landscape architectural consultant on the interdisciplinary design team creating a long range development framework for the city of Saint Paul and its riverfront corridor. The plan calls for the creation of "urban villages" in the downtown area providing concentrated neighborhoods, organized around small parks, where people can live, work and recreate.

Our work focused on the preservation, restoration and enhancement of the river and its environs as well as studying approaches for the "greening" of the urban core and the streets which pass through it. We studied how the city relates to the metropolitan region through an interconnected system of open spaces and recreational trails. We also coordinated with the ecologist on the team to develop a set of goals and objectives for development along the river's edge. Several of the urban villages envisioned in the framework are now complete or under construction.