Over the next week, we’ll be examining the Near South Side, the area seen above around 1961, and how it has changed over the last eighty years due to government urban renewal plans.
Clinton Peabody, built in 1942 on the Near South Side, is being demolished. Long known for crime and entrenched poverty, it will be replaced with 350 new mixed income housing units.
The hipped roofs seen in these photos are not original, and if I remember correctly, were added sometime in the last couple of decades. Maybe a reader knows.
Perhaps what is unique about the new apartments being built is that they actually have more than one or two bedrooms! Something that myself and others have noticed in all of the new fancy luxury apartment complexes being built throughout the central corridor is the paucity of units where large families could actually live. Or maybe that’s the point…
The school building will remain, which is itself a replacement of an earlier school building in the neighborhood.
Clinton Peabody, before that Laclede Town and before that Pruitt-Igoe. When will the government understand it does a bad job at helping others?
It’s “nice”..”to-see””..”aye-greater”..
“amount”..”of”..”old-photograph-files”..
“within”..”the”..”virtual”..”domains”..”of”..
“CyberSpace”… 🙂
Plus it’ll be “great” if “some-more”..
“pre-January 1959/MCMLIX..”taken-photographs”..”of”..”Old-Kosciusko/East-
Soulard”..”get-figuratively-declassified”..
“within-the-personal-domains”..”of-your-
own-personal-WebSite”… 😀
When “we-all”..”Bloomy-Know”..”that”..
“Old”..”Kuh-Shu-Ko”..”was”..”Objectively”..
“never-in-the-way”..”of”..”Eye/I-55’s”..
“Official”..”Construction-Path”..”to-begin-
with”… 🙁