The Loop Trolley Transportation Development District has selected Kwame Building Group to provide construction management services on the $43 million Loop Trolley in St. Louis and University City.
The project recently received Federal Transit Administration approval for a $25 million Urban Circulator Grant to build the system. The Loop Trolley is one of only five out of 65 proposed projects nationwide selected for the grant.
The 2.2-mile electric trolley system will connect The Loop to Forest Park with a stop at the Missouri History Museum. The Loop derived its nickname from the streetcar system that serviced the area until 1966.
The project includes installation of the tracks and overhead electric lines, construction of 10 station stops, and a roundabout with landscape elements at the western terminus. The Loop Trolley district is working with Great Rivers Greenway to extend the St. Vincent Greenway with new landscaping and a multi-use path along DeBaliviere Avenue south to Forest Park. The trolley will run on a grass track along the greenway.
The Loop Trolley system will operate three cars – a restored historic trolley car and two vintage replica cars that the Loop Trolley district is purchasing from Tri-Met, the public transit system in Portland, Oregon.
KWAME expects to begin issuing construction bid packages in late April and May.
