Since 2018, Metro Blooms and the community have collaborated to redesign outdoor spaces for greater environmental resilience and better quality of outdoor living. We’ve engaged with residents at community meetings, workshops, social events and community-planting events, working with the Riverside Plaza Tenant Association (RPTA) and owner Sherman Associates. Resident input has helped shape the designs of several rain gardens that we planted together and that divert and soak in stormwater, helping to prevent pollution in the nearby Mississippi River.