Hyde Park was never in the footprint of the Northside TIF, but I can’t help think that it was affected by the disruption that was occurring in the neighborhoods to the south.
This neighborhood is really suffering from the effects of abandonment, and the City’s reliance on McKee’s plans diverted attention from residents’ real needs the last twenty years (and much longer).
There is still so much potential.
I realized I took almost the exact photograph of the house below almost exactly one year ago in this post from January of 2025.
Chris your dedication is outstanding . To restore Hyde Park as safe and viable it will need to have actual individual re=habbers bonding together house by house, as we did in the 1970s in Lafayette Sq. and Soulard . We did it all without public funding but with major enthusiasm , City Aldermanic support for declaration of a District, successful killing of the N-S Distributor Hwy. The Building Commissioner ended up in prison .
Hi Dee! As I said in the first sentence of this post, McKee did not buy property in Hyde Park. Rather, the purposes of these posts are to show how his purchases of other properties in nearby neighborhoods have negatively affected other neighborhoods on the North Side.
I agree this area has so much potential! Now is the time to invest before abandoned properties are too far gone. This could certainly be the Soulard of the northside. But instead it sits and rots. The city really needs to change the narrative of North City, and restore it. Provide incentives to small businesses to fill the cornershops. Hopefully the neighborhood survives and doesn’t fall prey to vandals and fires.