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History of the Des Peres River and Construction Des Peres Avenue cuts through the middle of the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood like a scar. Originally an open river with treacherous banks during the flooding season, it was buried underground in the 1930s. Today, the only hints it still exists are the street signs and the rumored […]

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Aldermen are hosting a meeting Monday, December 13th to discuss traffic calming measures. Be sure to attend to throw in your two cents. Decades of government-coerced driving dependency has resulted in a public health and safety crisis. Many of our straods, deadly by design, desperately need an overhaul and conversion into streets. The city and […]

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The total amount of building permits issued in the city of St. Louis reached an all time high today (in nominal dollars). Something that has been vexing me about the last few years as we’ve tracked the building permits is that it’s in spite of the high murder rate. The number of murders increased from […]

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The Skinker/Debaliviere neighborhood is a south-central neighborhood of St. Louis located south of Delmar, north of Forsyth/Lindell, west of DeBaliviere and east of the city limits. I couldn’t figure out exactly where the western city limits are drawn; but I’ll use my usual tricks of street pavements and city dumpsters to establish St. Louis from […]

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The St. Louis Board of Aldermen assigned ward numbers and passed a ward map today, BB 101. Candidates will run for 2 year terms in odd-numbered wards and for 4 year terms in even-numbered wards in 2023. After that even and odd wards will have elections every four years as their terms come up. NextSTL […]

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Southwest Garden is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by I-44 and McRee Avenue to the north, Tower Grove Park, the Missouri Botanical Gardens and South Kingshighway to the east, Scanlan Avenue and Connecticut Street to the south, Hampton Avenue to the west and Columbia/Southwest Avenues to the north and east: 5,745 residents were counted in […]

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Green Street is proposing a redevelopment with Sterling Bank at their site at the northeast corner of Bemiston and Carondelet in Clayton. The 20-story building would be 270 apartments with balconies above 380 parking spaces and space for Sterling Bank’s branch (4,500 sf) and offices (10,500 sf). There is a pool and amenities on the […]

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Covenant Blu/Grand Center is a north central St. Louis neighborhood bound by Dr. Martin Luther King Drive to the north, Olive Street to the south, Compton Avenue to the east and Vandeventer Avenue to the west. The 2000 census data counted 2,758 residents (a decrease of 39% by the 1990s count) of whom 78% were […]

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A reader asked where is/was Vine Street. His great great grandfather J.C. Quinn worked at St. Louis Saw Works at 116 and 118 Vine Street in the 1860s and 70s. His son W.D. Quinn started a saw shop in 1903 which is still in business today located in north St. Louis County. This advertisement is […]

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The economic fallout from the pandemic has been very tough. One area that it has been reflected is in taxable sales. But it hasn’t been equal across the region. In the second and third quarters of 2020 we saw ZIP codes dependent on visitors and bars and restaurants losing big while in others like north […]

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 Penrose is a north St. Louis neighborhood bound by I-70 and West Florissant to the north, Natural Bridge to the south, Kingshighway to the west and Newstead and Pope to the east. The 2000 census data counted 7,435 residents (down 13% from 1990’s count) of whom 98% were black. This neighborhood has been all black […]

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Clayton/Tamm is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by Oakland to the north, Manchester to the south, Hampton to the east and Dale and Louisville to the west. The 2000 census counted 2,476 residents (11% decline from 1990s count) of whom 5% were black, 91% white, 2% Asian and 2% Hispanic/Latino. 1,436 housing units were […]

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Near North Riverfront is a long and slender north St. Louis neighborhood that runs right along the Mississippi River. It’s bound by Carr to the south, I-70 to the west, Adelaide to the north and the river to east. It’s not really a residential neighborhood, but 648 were counted there in 2000. That’s a 90% […]

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Yesterday, on our nation’s largest shopping holiday of the year, droves of drivers patriotically set out to bolster our nation’s economy. Deals on toasters and bath towels lured many across the city to our most famous parking lots: the Brentwood Promenade, Overland Plaza, South County Center, Westport… The reality, however, is that the majority of […]

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Benton Park West (BPW) is a south St. Louis neighborhood located west of Jefferson, southeast of Gravois, north of Potomac and Cherokee via Compton. The 2000 census counted 5,438 residents (down 4% over 1990’s count), of which 59% were black, 30% white, 5% Asian and 6% Hispanic/Latino (one of the most diverse in the city). […]

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“Heal the Grid” is a term I’ve read over the years as I try to learn more about what makes a city a city. A grid, in reference to urban planning, means a rectilinear layout of streets. An organized north, south, east, west series of rectangles or squares that make navigation extremely easy. Think Manhattan. […]

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The West End is a north St. Louis neighborhood bound by Page to the north, Delmar to the south, city limits to the west and Union and Belt to the east via Maple. The 2000 census data counted 6,438 residents (down 27% from 1990’s count) of whom 95% were black, 2% white and 1% Hispanic/Latino. […]

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Due to a driver shortage, Metro is cutting bus service on 27 bus lines starting November 29th. Over the last several months bus runs have been cancelled leaving riders waiting, transfers busted, and ruining riders’ day if not worse. The decline in reliability has led to a crisis of confidence. Now the system will be […]

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In the celebration of the signing of the federal infrastructure bill, we got a glimpse of how house poor we are. During a media briefing on Monday County Executive Sam Page said that county had over $200M in unmet needs in fixing county-maintained roads. On top of that “there’s been serious deferred maintenance [on county […]

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