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In 1947, St. Louis planners proposed to replace DeSoto-Carr, a run-down neighborhood with many black residents, with new two- and three-story residential blocks and a public park. [14] The plan did not materialize; instead, Democratic mayor Joseph Darst , elected in 1949, and Republican state leaders favored clearing the slums and replacing ...
Attributes of the apartments include LED lighting and floor-to-ceiling windows. The project was financed so as to generate rents of $3 USD per square foot (0.09 square meters) per month. Upon seeing design elevations in 2016, skeptics told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the building would look like "stacked cups" or a "magazine rack." [5]
New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-8478-0571-6. Larsen, Lawrence Harold; Kirkendall, Richard Stewart (2004). A History of Missouri: 1953 to 2003. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1546-8. Mendelssohn, Robert E.; Quinn, Michael A. (1985). "Residential Patterns in a Midwestern City: The Saint Louis Experience". The Metropolitan Midwest ...
East St. Louis is planning to convert the former 7 story Broadview Hotel, built in 1927, into housing for veterans and people 55 and older. The building, vacant since 2004, was added to the ...
According to the Journal of Tax Credits, 2600 solar panels installed by McCormack Baron saved the St. Louis Housing Authority $40,000 a year in energy savings. [ 12 ] In 2010, the Urban Investment Group of the bank Goldman Sachs purchased a stake in McCormack Baron Salazar adding two Goldman representatives to the company's board.
The bank's opening followed a major race riot and a series of corruption scandals in East St. Louis, and its construction marked a turnaround in what had until then been a struggling city. The new building inspired confidence in the city's downtown, and several landmark buildings were built in downtown East St. Louis in the ensuing decade.
Other elements still reside at the foundation's storage site in Sauget, Illinois. According to the Ghostbusters DVD commentary, Dana's apartment building is modeled after the top of the Continental Life Building in St. Louis, MO. Dana's apartment building actually exists at 55 Central Park West in New York City. The building is only 20 stories ...
The Malburn M. Stephens House, located at 1010 Pennsylvania Avenue, is a Georgian Revival house built in 1902; its namesake owner served as mayor of East St. Louis for 22 years. The Thomas L. Fekete House, located at 1018 Pennsylvania Avenue, is a vernacular house built in 1896.