Demo Alert 4900 Aldine

quincunx · PostSep 26, 2020#12020-09-26T17:02+00:00

Demo permits applied for the whole south side of the block. A whole bunch of 4-fams. Disinvestment on parade.

4966 Aldine
4960 Aldine
4956 Aldine
4952 Aldine
4946 Aldine
4942 Aldine
4938 Aldine
4934 Aldine
4930 Aldine
4926 Aldine
4918 Aldine
4914 Aldine
4910 Aldine
4906 Aldine

urban_dilettante · PostSep 26, 2020#22020-09-26T18:01+00:00

god what a sh*t show.

bwcrow1s · PostSep 27, 2020#32020-09-27T17:13+00:00

Holy hell. Every building on that street is boarded except for 4902.

debaliviere · PostOct 02, 2020#42020-10-02T16:09+00:00

A few buildings on this block have already been torn down. I remember looking at it on Google StreetView a few years ago (after noticing all the Aldine buildings on the LRA list) and it looked like something out of the Walking Dead.

It's a shame, because they're great buildings that if renovated could be really nice homes for a lot of people.

urban_dilettante · PostOct 02, 2020#52020-10-02T16:12+00:00

^ yep, and if anything ever replaces them it will be cheap paper mache crap.

quincunx · PostOct 02, 2020#62020-10-02T16:41+00:00

About 80 residences among the 4-fams on that block.

urban_dilettante · PostOct 02, 2020#72020-10-02T16:44+00:00

^ right. cheap paper mache crap with about 1/10th the density.

beer city · PostOct 07, 2020#82020-10-07T03:08+00:00

Veterans "tiny houses" on Aldine

On a different site I am sure, but it drives me crazy when they are building "tiny houses" and demoing buildings that could serve veterans just down the street - Housing homeless vets is great, I think the tiny house deal is a bad gimmick, we have housing, rehab it and build something to last more than a fad.

https://www.kmov.com/news/tiny-houses-f ... f7b80.html

Laife Fulk · PostOct 07, 2020#92020-10-07T03:23+00:00

In theory that would be ideal, but it’s probably just cheaper to demolish and build new than to rehab (and that’s IF this is the group that’s behind the other demos). Unfortunately money is the biggest deciding factor. I’m just glad they’re building in north city and not out in cornfields.

RuskiSTL · PostOct 07, 2020#102020-10-07T08:39+00:00

Agree that reno >>> tiny houses. I used to live in a 100 year old sh*t hole in CWE during college. It was clearly built as a boarding house around 1904; big bedrooms and a skinny/scary hallways connecting to bathrooms/kitchen, no communal rooms. While these could be used for veterans/homeless, administratively it's much easier to just give each person their own place/limit communal living. Seems like there'd be a lot of liability issues.

quincunx · PostMay 30, 2021#112021-05-30T01:23+00:00

Demo permit apps in for five more. All LRA owned.

4921 Aldine
4927 Aldine
4931 Aldine
4935 Aldine
4939 Aldine

Laife Fulk · PostJun 10, 2021#122021-06-10T15:25+00:00

Looks like these demo's are part of Urban League's Clean Sweep efforts:

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... op-story-1