Grow Park at Englewood Agro-Eco District

Grow Park is a long-term landscape project that reimagines a sequence of underused parcels in Englewood as a network of collective nurseries—spaces where agriculture, ecology, and neighborhood life grow together. Conceived as a phased public landscape, the project proposes a new kind of park: one that produces plants, knowledge, and care as shared civic resources.
The park is structured around the idea of growing ruins. Existing concrete slabs, foundations, and infrastructural remnants are not erased, but interpreted and elevated as spatial frameworks through which vegetation, water, and community activity gradually take hold. As the landscape evolves phase by phase, these remnants become nurseries, gathering areas, and ecological substrates that anchor memory while supporting new forms of use.
Water plays a central role through the principle of liquid justice. Stormwater is treated as a collective asset, guided and held across the site to support planting, soil regeneration, and equitable access to environmental resources. Hydrological systems are integrated with nursery production, reinforcing the relationship between care for land and care for people.
Grow Park operates as both public space and working landscape. It connects grow parks, neighborhood nurseries, schools, backyards, and the Englewood Trail into a distributed system of cultivation. Designed through community engagement and iterative planning, the project aligns ecological restoration with economic opportunity, transforming vacant land into a living infrastructure for stewardship, learning, and long-term resilience.
Grow Park positions agriculture not as an amenity, but as a cultural practice—rooted in place, shared over time, and continuously growing.