For over sixty years, a stretch of rail corridor has cut through the middle of Charleston: inaccessible, overlooked, and invisible to most of the city.

We're turning it into something else entirely. In its place: a 1.7-mile connected park running from North Central to Radcliffborough, giving every Charlestonian a safe, car-free way to move through the peninsula on foot or by bike.

Charleston floods. Not occasionally, and not just in a hurricane, but regularly. And in ways that already shape how people plan their commute and their week. The Lowline is built with that reality in mind. Green space and natural drainage are engineered directly into the corridor, designed to hold and move water that the peninsula's aging streets can't manage alone. This isn't just landscaping. It's flood mitigation that also happens to be a park people will want to spend time in.

And this is just the beginning. Once the full corridor is complete, the Lowline becomes the central spine of a car-free regional network connecting West Ashley by the West Ashley Bike Bridge, North Charleston by the Lowcountry Rapid Transit System, and Mount Pleasant by the Ravenel Bridge. This will allow residents to get across the peninsula, or across the region, without ever needing a car.