Holy crap does this area have a lot of potential! I went through here on Saturday night, and this neighborhood needs to be the next extension of the CWE. There is amazing residential, apartment monumental, and public architecture in this zone. Anyone know if there is an extensive rehab community here? No dumpsters to be seen, but there should be. I read the section in Groth's guide, and there is (or was) a gorgeous turreted 3 or 4 story apartment building with an underground garage at Cabanne and Union. Definitely a must-see if you haven't visited this area!
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There really is a lot of potential in the "near north" neighborhoods from the West End on over to Grand Center. I think by 2020 things should be pretty well filled up to Delmar and hopefully things will continue to extend northward. I also think that if the City is ever to truly recover, its going to have to happen in neighborhoods like these. But things do take time.
btw, here is the '00-'10 population changes for the "near-north" neighborhoods moving west to east:
West End: +2%
Visitation Park: -7%
Academy: -26%
Fountain Park: -18%
Lewis Place: -17%
Vandeventer: -24%
Grand Center: +29%
btw, here is the '00-'10 population changes for the "near-north" neighborhoods moving west to east:
West End: +2%
Visitation Park: -7%
Academy: -26%
Fountain Park: -18%
Lewis Place: -17%
Vandeventer: -24%
Grand Center: +29%
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West End (west of Belt), Visitation (Belt to Union) and Academy (Union to Kingshighway) have all seen a lot of updates and renovations. I consider them fairly stable and safe neighborhoods with a lot of homeowners and the best housing stock on the north side.
West End is a little more diverse racially, with about 15% being white, Latino or Asian. Were I looking for a house to renovate, it would be in one of these neighborhoods or in Fountain Park.
West End is a little more diverse racially, with about 15% being white, Latino or Asian. Were I looking for a house to renovate, it would be in one of these neighborhoods or in Fountain Park.
So that building just west of Cabanne and Union, the Woodslands:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.657627, ... 9EpBDQ!2e0
I didn't get to go past it the other night, only found out about it through the Groth guide, but I searched it and a group in Irvine CA appears to own it, and it appears to have been denied some sort of FHA financing a couple years ago due to structural issues, but I know no more than that. Anyone know if this is a going project? It's such a beautifully executed building, it would be stupid for it to perish because the FHA lacks vision.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.657627, ... 9EpBDQ!2e0
I didn't get to go past it the other night, only found out about it through the Groth guide, but I searched it and a group in Irvine CA appears to own it, and it appears to have been denied some sort of FHA financing a couple years ago due to structural issues, but I know no more than that. Anyone know if this is a going project? It's such a beautifully executed building, it would be stupid for it to perish because the FHA lacks vision.
There's a great old Catholic school building at Academy and Minerva that I'd love to see converted to residential (just north of Page). Both the school and the church have been abandoned for years, and I fear they'll soon be torn down.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... .14,,0,-10
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... .14,,0,-10
Then of course there's this little Mid-Century gem, still very much in use. On Belt, just south of Page.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... 8,,0,-5.79
And check out the houses on Bartmer, just across the street. This must have been an amazing neighborhood back in the day. Fortunately, several of the old mansions seem to be holding their own.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... 63,,0,0.47
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... 8,,0,-5.79
And check out the houses on Bartmer, just across the street. This must have been an amazing neighborhood back in the day. Fortunately, several of the old mansions seem to be holding their own.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... 63,,0,0.47
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wow, that school building is amazing–it could totally be the cornerstone for rehab/infill of that whole area. is it an LRA property?framer wrote:There's a great old Catholic school building at Academy and Minerva that I'd love to see converted to residential (just north of Page). Both the school and the church have been abandoned for years, and I fear they'll soon be torn down.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Loui ... .14,,0,-10
What are the prospects for this area in ten years? Around Fountain Park itself, there is only a single hole in the housing stock and across Kingshighway in Academy/Sherman Park, the stock is still quite solid by north side standards. Being located just across from the CWE, it seems this would be the logical expansion of gentrification up from there,.
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It would be logical for gentrification to push north into Fountain Park, but it seems to me that it is pushing south into the Grove and east into Midtown instead. There are still areas on the north side of the CWE itself (around Olive and Washington) that are in pretty sad shape that I'd really like to see rehabbed and filled in.
^ Yeah, there are some pretty spotty areas. Cleaning Delmar up would probably be a great jump start for that area, visually at least.
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Trailnet did a literary bike tour last summer where we rode around the Central West End and nearby neighborhoods and an English professor pointed out author's homes and discussed their work.
In the CWE Kate Chopin's house still looks great as does the old apartment building Tennessee Williams lived in his youth (now renamed The Tennessee). But the block where "Meet Me in St. Louis" was set looked pretty awful, and a couple of homes of other writers in the Fountain Park area looked sad too.
Gentrification in this area would allow us to be able to show off more of our cultural history.
In the CWE Kate Chopin's house still looks great as does the old apartment building Tennessee Williams lived in his youth (now renamed The Tennessee). But the block where "Meet Me in St. Louis" was set looked pretty awful, and a couple of homes of other writers in the Fountain Park area looked sad too.
Gentrification in this area would allow us to be able to show off more of our cultural history.