It starts out strong enough, rows of rehabbed buildings with award-winning restaurants around Compton Avenue. Then it starts to get a little more quiet, and the buildings, while well-maintained, start to look a little less august. And then the giant swaths of grass, generating zero activity, and surely zero tax dollars. Is this the middle…
Tag: Urban Prairie
Some Things Never Change
Update: As of the summer of 2023, little has changed at the compound shown above other than the fence being painted red (fifth photo). The survivalist compound is doing fine on N. Market Street. Update: The gas station was demolished in the winter of 2024. The vacant gas station at St. Louis Avenue and Parnell,…
St. Louis Place, Slipping Away Some More
Update: Everything seen above was cleared or demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018.
McKee Finished?
Back when this website first began in 2007, there was a mysterious shell company called Blairmont buying up houses in North St. Louis. They thought no one would notice. Someone did. I used to post “current events” articles back in the day on this site, but tend not to any more. This one is too…
St. Louis Place, Sold Out
Update: Area was cleared for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018.
The Ville, In Extensus
Update: I went back and revisited in July of 2022. The Ville is one of the oldest neighborhoods in St. Louis, which is surprising in that it is way out past Grand, which was still mostly farmland well into the first decade of the Twentieth Century. But the Ville clearly developed earlier, out along St….
Harvest Time in St. Louis Place
Update: The area was cleared by eminent domain for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. I examined the corn and bean fields of St. Louis Place about two months ago, and now that it’s fall, the plants are turning…
St. Louis Place Reverts to Farmland
Update: Demolished for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2017. The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Much ado has been made about the corn and soybean fields sprouting up from the urban prairie in southwest St. Louis Place. Of course, this was once farmland before the…
Development Still Missing on Wright Street, St. Louis Place
Update: The City of St. Louis cut ties with Paul McKee’s Northside in June of 2018. Almost exactly five years after I wrote this post, nothing is happening on the McKee owned property on Wright Street. It was a nominally healthy block until he got a hold of it.