Storefront design has a big impact on how we perceive an area. So often formerly inviting storefronts became closed over time as commercial districts went downhill. Lately, in many of these commercial districts, we’ve seen a welcomed return to inviting... »
The majority of the readers that voted last week agreed that Saint Louis University President Biondi has destroyed midtown since 1987 — a decade after it became a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Here were the final result... »
Driving home recently I spotted the demolition of the storefront building on the NW corner of Jefferson & Ann (map), I stopped to snap a picture and went on. ? It’s just another old vacant building, what’s the problem? The problem I have is we have abs... »
The poll last week was interesting to watch, I’d wanted to do such a poll question for a long time but didn’t have a good reason. The new Hamburger Mary’s opening up in an area other than our gay village, The Grove, was a good excuse to do so. Here ... »
The predictions of a few were dire a year ago as St. Louis City & County went mostly smoke-free. What happened? Like every year, some places closed and others opened. Some places started off claiming they were exempt, posting the required sign to warn ... »
On Monday the St. Louis Preservation Board approved the demolition of some buildings at the Pevely Dairy site but denied the two most critical, the corner structure and the smokehouse. Facebook & twitter were on fire afterwords with people celebrating.... »
St. Louis will be selling bonds to fund improvements to the city’s park system. From STLtoday.com on Friday: St. Louis aldermen today overwhelmingly approved a plan to issue $64 million in bonds for city parks, with about $30 million to be spent on imp... »
Local grocery chain Schnuck’s received the largest number of votes in the poll last week. Q: What are the three (3) primary places where you shop for groceries? Schnuck’s 116 [24.89%] Trader Joe’s 47 [10.09%] Big Box (Target, Walmart, etc) 42 [9.01%] S... »
Recently I was in the Target on Hampton and saw they had finally added a fresh food section. I often wondered why a fresh food section wasn’t included when this store opened in 2005. They had to steal square footage from other areas to get the space to... »
