The Great Rivers Greenway District

[1] In 2000, organization president Peter Sortino led a successful drive to place a proposition on local ballots to create a one-tenth-of-one-cent sales tax to support greenway development.

The system will connect with trails developed by the Metro East Park and Recreation District of St. Clair and Madison Counties in Illinois.

In 2011 and 2016, Great Rivers Greenway engages citizens, civic leaders and partners to update and republish the Citizen-Driven Regional Plan.

[8] By 2020, the agency had built more than 128 miles of greenways connecting parks, rivers, schools, neighborhoods, business districts and transit.

[10] Greenways within the district: In 2007, four decades after completion of the Gateway Arch, the site remained an island, severed from the rest of the city by busy highways and disconnected from the Mississippi River.

The partners planned a ballot issue known as Proposition P to generate sales tax revenue for the CityArchRiver project and other park improvements.