North St. Louis City has a reputation and perception. The few people who impose harm on others scare away the residents who can afford to leave, but when they too are gone the neighborhood becomes abandoned, homes are demolished for fear of misuse, and abandon sets in.
Old North St. Louis has been making strides towards resettlement and has become a community with spirit and neighborliness. Others are still unnoticed or remain in quasi abandonment.
I just read in the RFT about Catholic Workers in St. Louis Place around St. Liborious. Mary "One" Johnson has been building homes father north in St. Louis Place but south of North Market blocks are empty with lone surviving homes.
Riverfront Times
Cool to be Kind
Voluntary poverty, sustainable agriculture, helping one's fellow man. A Catholic Worker community quietly grows in north St. Louis.
By MOLLY LANGMUIR
Article Published Jan 31, 2007
For all those knowledgeable, in what years or decades did what North St. Louis City neighborhoods experience one, a lack of investment two, a drastic increase in crime three, emptying out and abandonment?
Neighborhood Name
1.) Lack of investment > Decade
2.) Era of crime (shootings, apparant drugs, etc...) > Decade
3.) Population loss and near abandonment > Decade
4.) Era of Rehabilitation (identify pioneer or first starts to large scale) >
Decades
Neighborhoods that come to mind are:
JeffVanderLoo
Murphy (now occupied by HOPE mixed income housing)
Old North St. Louis
St. Louis Place
Hyde Park
The Ville
If other categories and neighborhood dynamic characteristics come to mind, feel free to include those too.
Old North St. Louis has been making strides towards resettlement and has become a community with spirit and neighborliness. Others are still unnoticed or remain in quasi abandonment.
I just read in the RFT about Catholic Workers in St. Louis Place around St. Liborious. Mary "One" Johnson has been building homes father north in St. Louis Place but south of North Market blocks are empty with lone surviving homes.
Riverfront Times
Cool to be Kind
Voluntary poverty, sustainable agriculture, helping one's fellow man. A Catholic Worker community quietly grows in north St. Louis.
By MOLLY LANGMUIR
Article Published Jan 31, 2007
The neighborhood changed around the house. At first it wasn't uncommon to hear gunfire coming from the streets, but by the 1980s and '90s St. Louis Place began to empty out. "It became very quiet," Druhe says. "Almost like living in the country." According to U.S. Census figures, the population of the roughly 80-block area dropped 39 percent between 1980 and 2000, from 4,243 to 2,572. St. Liborius stopped holding services in 1991.
In 1995 rows of identical vinyl-sided houses began to spring up, fronted by identical front yards dotted with identical shrubs. About 90 units have been built so far; more are in the works. It looks as if the suburbs had dropped down from outer space. The houses originally sold for about $90,000, says Judy Woolverton, owner of the firm that built them, Choate Construction and Development, but a few recently resold for about $150,000.
For all those knowledgeable, in what years or decades did what North St. Louis City neighborhoods experience one, a lack of investment two, a drastic increase in crime three, emptying out and abandonment?
Neighborhood Name
1.) Lack of investment > Decade
2.) Era of crime (shootings, apparant drugs, etc...) > Decade
3.) Population loss and near abandonment > Decade
4.) Era of Rehabilitation (identify pioneer or first starts to large scale) >
Decades
Neighborhoods that come to mind are:
JeffVanderLoo
Murphy (now occupied by HOPE mixed income housing)
Old North St. Louis
St. Louis Place
Hyde Park
The Ville
If other categories and neighborhood dynamic characteristics come to mind, feel free to include those too.
