Historical May 1992 article.
Category: Real Estate
The building housing Des Peres Branch Library at 5960 Kingsbury Boulevard has been given to the St. Louis Public Library as a memorial to Bernard and Tillie Lieberman by their heirs.
Each of the three neighborhood groups has now officially begun to explore the idea of becoming part of a proposed Historic District.
For some time it has been the policy of the residential service committee to prevent, as much as it is possible, real estate companies from doing business in the Rosedale-Skinker area.
A number of local block units, as well as the Council, are inquiring of federal mortgage insuring agencies about the disposition of repossessed homes in our neighborhood.
West End Townhouses, Inc., a limited dividend firm, founded by the late Phillip Lucier, to buy, renovate, rent and sell multiple family dwellings in the neighborhood, reports that it is completing readjustments caused by Mr. Lucier's sudden death in 1970.
The Residential Service is a volunteer, non-profit group which is interested in maintaining the stability of the neighborhood.
The Residential Service has filed a complaint with the Justice Department regarding a real estate speculator who has operated in the neighborhood in a discriminatory manner.
The 353 Bill which will allow for the redevelopment of an area just west of DeBaliviere was approved by the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor in early April.
The future of the Left Bank Bookstore and the Lantern House Restaurant is in doubt as a result of the sale of the building on the southwest corner of Skinker and Delmar Boulevards to Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
When you talk urban real estate with Mr. Don Lipton of Lipton Realty Company, especially real estate in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area, you are apt to wind up on a guided tour.
On Friday, March 19, the Board of Aldermen passed the 353 incentive bill which, in part, calls for redevelopment of the DeBaliviere-Delmar-DeGiverville triangle area.
