I was heading west on Chippewa Street from South Jefferson, and I thought it would be interesting to photograph the corner stores that I saw on my way.
Since these are on the south side of the street, they are in Dutchtown.
While there has been some really great rehabbing by Lutheran Development and RISE, there is still so much abandonment. It is really sad.
I’ve watched now over a decade at there at there just being little development along what could be a really nice commercial corridor. It’s a bus line and technically MO 366.
Then there’s one of those random 1950s apartment buildings thrown in.
Here’s another one of those renovated buildings, still looking for a tenant.
At South Compton, there’s this Vietnamese grocery that I’ve never visited, but it always has an open sign in the window.
There’s a couple of businesses as we go up the hill toward Grand.
Then there’s just a tree in the parking lot where the old St. Anthony’s used to be, then a grocery store, and now a Habitat for Humanity store.
Thanks for all this, Chris!
Thank you Chris! Your wonderful photos and commentary are beautiful to see and educational as well. What a vast collection of houses–so many unique and irreplaceable. Just “Thank you so much!”
Thank you!
Pay attention to the abandoned storefronts now Miss Jones. Use some of that Rams settlement money that you’re dishing out as handouts! Think long term, not short term. This is what much of north STL looked like twenty years or so ago. And not many of them are barely standing today. Fix up those buildings. Go door to door in these neighborhoods and ask residents what businesses they would like to see down their street, and petition to investers & entrepreneurs with incentives to put the ball into motion.
Part 2: Then snatch up all of these teenagers that are doing all of the smash & grabs that are putting many of these small mom & pop storefronts out of business. Give them all an old fashioned ass beating that they were deprived of in their youth. We all grew up with the fear of God in us and knew not to dare break the law. Now we aren’t allowed to say God and have to stand by and hand over our keys to the criminals and watch our city burn, while their mamas are cracked out, and their granddaddys are getting Rams settlement checks because we didn’t do anything to fix this cycle 40 years ago…