Fifteen members of the Real Estate Board of Metropolitan St. Louis, including the Board’s Executive Director, Walter Stradel, visited the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood Sept. 12, on a tour that included stops at seven area homes that have been partly or completely rehabilitated. “The purpose of the tour,” said Cal Stuart, Executive Director of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, “was to show off significant improvements in our neighborhood. The fact is that older established neighborhoods like ours can keep themselves on the market and don’t have to be written off as they have in the past. “Our hope is,” Stuart continued, “that the Board will see reason to promote this area as a good place to live. And we think we succeeded.” Stuart added that since the tour some people have inquired about investing in the local real estate market.
The tour lasted for two hours and included stops at homes on Waterman (1), McPherson (3), Westminster (2), and Kingsbury (1) Avenues. The Board members were taxied through the neighborhood in station wagons driven by Stuart, Alderman John Roach, and State Representative Steve Vossmeyer. After the tour a social hour was held for the Board to meet with local homeowners for refreshment and conversation. Also present for the social hour were Jack Wright, Chairman of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, and Suzanne Hart and Blanche Reel, representing the local Residential Service.
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Members of the Real Estate Board visit rehabilitated neighborhood homes. The Paper, October 1974, page 1. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, October 1974.
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