Historical June–August 2000 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The water has returned to Pagoda Circle in Forest Park.
The Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry has filled the lake that surrounds the Pagoda Circle.
It had been drained for two years while the area was rebuilt under the Forest Park Master Plan.
The area now has new roads, bridges and the area was landscaped by the Parks Department and the Flora Conservancy, a group of volunteers who planted more than 22,000 flowers and plants in the area around the Nathan Frank Bandstand.
The Flora Conservancy created a unique partnership…the first of its kind in the country…to implement the Pagoda Circle project.
This is a partnership of the Parks Division, Forestry Division, master gardeners, students from Meramec Community College, professional landscape architects and engineers, and plant brokers working alongside volunteer gardeners (led by Parkview resident and Master Gardener, Andrea Schnapp).
The landscape plan was created by the famous landscape firm of Oehme van Sweden and Associates of Washington, D.C. Work is still continuing in Forest Park to connect the major lakes. Pagoda Circle will be part of that system when it is completed but now it is a free-standing lake. Theatre Drive, which was closed for construction work on the Old Stable Bridge, was reopened right on time for The MUNY to begin its season on June 19.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June–August 2000.
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