Environment & Sustainability

Coverage of green innovations, and climate and environment issues and developments, especially those told by local voices and that offer solutions for community concerns.

Patriot Lake is in the midst of a 30-acre expansion

Shelby Farms begins work on Patriot Lake expansion

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Economic Development

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May 27, 2014

Many of the more than one million visitors to Shelby Farms Park every year come for bucolic Patriot Lake, located just north of Walnut Grove Road. Whether jogging the length of its 1.5-mile asphalt track, paddle boating, canoeing, fishing or simply sitting nearby to catch a breeze on a spring day, it is a gateway […]

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Rendering of the Hampline pedestrian and bike path on Broad Avenue

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