The Trails at SVSU

The Trails at SVSU will provide multiple benefits, including fitness and exercise opportunities for students, faculty, staff and regional residents, as well as a NCAA certified cross country course. The Trails transform unused, undeveloped property on the university’s campus into a regional recreational open space, and will additionally complement the existing asphalt trails that circle the SVSU campus, as well as the other recognizable high quality campus athletic facilities at the university. Coming late 2016.

SASA Riverfront Preserve

This approximately 3-acre project, located on the west riverbank on the south side of Genesee along Niagara, provides a clear, strong opportunity to create a human-scale point of access to the River while providing a variety of other amenities. It will also include interpretive signage, a new section of paved trail to expand the City of Saginaw’s Riverfront Trail system, and thousands of beautiful native plants. Coming in 2017.

Pollinator Plots

This project turns vacant lots on five initial sites throughout the City of Saginaw into productive, aesthetically desirable natural spaces that reduce the burden of local government for maintenance and improve the visual condition of neighborhoods throughout the City of Saginaw. By replacing weeds and overgrown grasses on vacant lots with beneficial, aesthetically desirable, hearty, drought tolerant and wildlife-beneficial native wildflowers and prairie grases, the project will reduce maintenance demands overall, form neighborhood partnerships, create beneficial acreage for wildlife, and inform future widespread solutions for vacant land stabilization in the community. Coming late summer/early fall of 2016.​

Zoo Trails

This project takes the 16 acres of vacant land adjacent to the Children's Zoo at Celebration Square and converts it into an interpretive nature trail with accompanying signage geared for families and children describing the natural features present on and relevant to the existing conditions of the vacant property. 
The control and removal of invasive species identified on the property will further enhance the property’s conservation values and make way for the future establishment of greater native plant density and diversity. The area to be improved will contain the nature trail, and family-friendly interpretive signage detailing the site’s existing natural features. Coming in 2017.