Parks + Green Spaces
The MCC helps to create and keep clean, beautiful, and usable green spaces within our neighborhood areas for residents to use and enjoy.
There are 40 acres of amazing city parkland to enjoy in four Marlborough locations. A 2-mile Greenwalk connects three locations that include natural features designed to slow down and clean storm runoff. We are in planning stage of creating on-going opportunities for neighbors to care for and expand the uses of Marlborough’s green spaces. A Green Space & Beautification Task Force maintains the Coalition’s pocket parks.
The MCC actively pursues grants and public funding partnerships to enhance our green spaces. We will often partner with government agencies working on projects within our green spaces. While they are improving issues such as storm drainage, our grant dollars are then dedicated to adding amenities to those spaces such as playgrounds, bike racks and shelters.
Through these efforts City of Kansas City, Missouri has invested $40 million in green infrastructure projects throughout Marlborough to-date.
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Rachel Morado Plaza
77th Street between The Paseo Boulevard and Hickman Mills Drive
Rachel Morado Plaza offers scenic walking paths through a beautiful formal garden arrangement of native plants. The Plaza itself is a green infrastructure project owned by KCWater to manage water run-off. MCC-won grant dollars added community amenities identified by residents to the area.
Arleta Park
7700 Prospect Ave
Arleta Park is part of the KC Parks System, and features a playground, walking trails and shelter areas. EPA grants funded a green infrastructure project, and the MCC won $350,000 PIAC funding for construction of the community amenities including playground equipment.
Village Commons
Pocket Park
8112 Paseo, KC, MO
The Village Commons Pocket Park is a quiet green space tucked mid-way between Marlborough's business center and the Marlborough Community Center at 8112 Paseo.
Our very own oasis of calm in the city was developed by the community on two formerly vacant Land Bank lots and dedicated to the memory of Marlborough Community Coalition's first president, Betty Ost-Everley.
In 2024 the MCC worked to get a Missouri Department of Conservation Cost-share Grant to plant more native plants in the Village Commons Pocket Park.
81st & Troost
8111 Troost Avenue, KC, MO
5am - midnight daily
This 10-acre green space (jointly owned by KC Water and KC Parks & Recreation) boasts a destination playground with a zipline, a walking path, educational signage around native plants and stormwater detention.
The MCC worked to get $500,000 PIAC funding for construction of the Nature + Play area and other improvements identified by residents for the park.
Two prominent pieces of public art are installed here: sculpture “Marlborough Blomes” by Jacob Balcom , and Amphitheater “Believe” mural by local artist, Anna Goodwin.
Marlborough
Park
8221 Brooklyn Ave
Marlborough Park is our only native woodland with four natural streams converging and flowing on to the Blue River. In 2023, the Marlborough Community Coalition’s PIAC application for a park master plan was put into effect. In 2024, with testimony from both residents and the MCC and letters from Walnut Grove leadership, the KCMO Parks Board of Commissioners approved the Master Park Plan. The MCC is now actively seeking funds for the park improvements that were selected by the community. See the full plan
