Update: Of the three houses on McRee Avenue just east of Vandeventer Avenue, the two houses on the right have been rehabbed; the house on the left has been demolished.
Long troubled, long misunderstood, I will look at McRee Town, now relabeled Botanical Heights, all this week.
I work in what used to be an old Kroger grocery store on the edge of McKree Town (it’s on the east side of 39th street, so technically it’s the Tiffany Neighborhood). It’s sad how that area – McKree Town, Tiffany, etc. – can sit so close to some major plusses, like South Grand, Tower Grove Park, SLU Hospital, Cardinal-Glennon, HWY 44, Botanical Garden, The Grove, etc. and be so dreary, forgotten about and lacking of any sort of identity.