The last time I had visited the former Carrollton subdivision was back in November of 2022, and some things had changed. First of all, an ultimate frisbee course had been built.
Also, we saw a person walking through the empty yards. Not sure what he was doing.
The trees are slowly dying but the former lots where houses once stood are still obvious from the flat places in the wilderness.
St. Louis is a dying city, and one of the reasons for this is that the City of St. Louis and/or its various agencies have made and continue to make stupid, boneheaded, short-sighted mistakes.
A prime example is letting a single, vain, pompous blowhard like Leonard Griggs and his monied political allies have unbridled and unchecked powers, and as a result, an entire viable neighborhood of 1800 homes of middle class taxpayers is wiped off the map for no discernible reason other than to appease the ego of said pompous blowhard. The icing on the cake is that the City of St. Louis then lets this once vibrant neighborhood become a 500 acre trash dump not producing a single dime in tax revenues that now has to be periodically cleaned up at taxpayer expense.