Leading up to the Troost Bridge project, EL DORADO led a University of Kansas Urban Design Studio to engage a 10-block stretch of Troost and the surrounding Troost Corridor community. The studio proposed various projects in vacant lots and within abandoned buildings along the corridor as catalytic provocations. Design critiques were held as public forums in churches and community centers near Troost, and the final project, in conjunction with Kansas City Art Institute Students, was displayed at Paragraph Gallery in downtown Kansas City as an Art + Urban design exhibition.