$5M building permit application submitted to convert Ashland Branch School in the Penrose neighborhood into 24 apartments.
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Great news! I love hearing stuff like this out of north city. Penrose is a pretty healthy neighborhood, and I think it could aid in the recovery of North STL especially.quincunx wrote: ↑Mar 27, 2021$5M building permit application submitted to convert Ashland Elementary in the Penrose neighborhood into 24 apartments.
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There's been a lot of promising news coming out of the Northside lately.
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Bumping this thread as I avoided traffic on I-70 one evening last week by winding up through North City generally and specifically the Penrose neighborhood before I jumped back on the interstate at Shreve. I know a lot of the focus on regenerating the Northside has focused on areas that are more connected to the Central Corridor (near NGA and just north of Delmar near the CWE). But I think Penrose is a strong contender to be sort of an anchor neighborhood on the farther north side. The stretch of Shreve just south of the interstate is a nice little well preserved bit of retail. I think so many have written off the north side as a whole who never see corners like that. There's something that's just different from the central corridor or even south side neighborhoods in those well preserved corners of North STL. It's hard to describe.
^ Very well said. I spend a lot of time all over the region for work and while much of the North Side has some problems, there are still plenty of densely populated neighborhoods and a handful of commercial districts left. Especially as you move away from downtown.
I’ve always looked at it like St. Louis really f*cked up that area between the river on the east, Vandeventer on the west, St. Louis Ave on the north and Chouteau on the south. Inside of there is like where STL leaders tried all of the worst urban renewal policies from the mid-century period. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some egregious mistakes outside of that area (or that there isn’t significant vacancy in other parts of North St. Louis), but much of the city’s built environment is still hanging on outside of those downtown collar neighborhoods, in my opinion. We just need to leverage it better.
I’ve always looked at it like St. Louis really f*cked up that area between the river on the east, Vandeventer on the west, St. Louis Ave on the north and Chouteau on the south. Inside of there is like where STL leaders tried all of the worst urban renewal policies from the mid-century period. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some egregious mistakes outside of that area (or that there isn’t significant vacancy in other parts of North St. Louis), but much of the city’s built environment is still hanging on outside of those downtown collar neighborhoods, in my opinion. We just need to leverage it better.
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^^ Looked at a house up near Penrose about 2 years ago, and agree wholeheartedly on the neighborhood.