Greenline KC

The Greenline KC project is a master planning effort to connect people to parks and nature, connect neighborhoods, and connect transit in a 10-mile pedestrian loop around downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The project aims to be a thread reweaving the fabric of Kansas City and helping breakdown the infrastructural barriers established by interstate and park systems of the past. Evolving from a project idea between BNIM Principal Steve McDowell and developer Vince Bryant to create connections between the Crossroads District of Kansas City and KC Parks System, Greenline KC organically grew into an exploration and planning study to better connect neighborhoods and parks in the Kansas City area. Greenline KC is a recreational walking and biking loop that will be part of the new Freight House Development District in the Kansas City Crossroads District and introduce connections to nature within this urban area of Kansas City while providing new modes of pedestrian transit. BNIM is helping develop a concept study for the Greenline project to encompass a bike/walking path, stormwater management, and community connection spaces. Since 2019, the project’s momentum has grown and has since been adopted by the Downtown Council as one of the strategic projects in the Imagine Downtown KC plan. The study continues to be in progress.