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Ecology of Absence has been doing an excellent job documenting the speculation currently going on in North St. Louis. Someone is buying up buildings and letting them deteriorate. No one seems to know why.
North St. Louis has enough problems, the north side doesn't need to deal with speculators/developers who are quite possibly putting a stymie on historic rehabilitation for their own benefit. Why our elected officials aren't on top of this problem...good question. Seems like the only people who care about St. Louis' built environment are a handful of bloggers.
Why was the RFT the only media outlet in this town that covered this story? Sure, there is no blood involved, and no one has died but this issue clearly affects property owners on the near north side. Maybe that's not a good enough reason. When is this town going to be proud of what it has and start fighting to save itself?
For an extensive list of links and stories relating to the Blairmont saga, follow the link below:
The World of Blairmont - Ecology of Absence
North St. Louis has enough problems, the north side doesn't need to deal with speculators/developers who are quite possibly putting a stymie on historic rehabilitation for their own benefit. Why our elected officials aren't on top of this problem...good question. Seems like the only people who care about St. Louis' built environment are a handful of bloggers.
Why was the RFT the only media outlet in this town that covered this story? Sure, there is no blood involved, and no one has died but this issue clearly affects property owners on the near north side. Maybe that's not a good enough reason. When is this town going to be proud of what it has and start fighting to save itself?
For an extensive list of links and stories relating to the Blairmont saga, follow the link below:
The World of Blairmont - Ecology of Absence
1 comments:
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G of St Louis Place, at
6:48 PM
This comment is a little late, but we all know what the plan is now. McKee wants to "bulldoze the ghetto" -- all of St Louis Place, a big chunk of JVL and some of ONSL. ONSL has their strong neighborhood group, so McKee has backed off a bit over there. The plans are drawn up by Arcturis, Pyramid is preparting a bid, and I'm expecting to be standing in front of a bulldozer in early fall 2007. There is going to be a lake and a cute 22nd St highway from 40 up to Cass and Jeff. The whole plan is to have site control of the whole area before the Pruitt-Igoe site goes on the market.