A combination of rising costs and tight mortgage money has combined to delay Kingsbury Redevelopment Corporation's plan to improve the "triangle area", between McPherson, Delmar, DeGiverville and DeBaliviere.
Category: Urban Redevelopment
A plan to spruce up the front of the building occupied by the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council at 6008 Kingsbury is being studied by the Board.
At the May meeting, S-D board members gave preliminary consideration to a proposed revolving fund, to be used in buying, renovating, renting or selling, single family homes in the area.
There was a surprise visitor at the second WHN meeting on housing—Mayor Poelker!
Speakers form other areas of the city provided and interesting forum at the Washington Heights General Meeting on March 7, 1974.
SDCC, through its subsidiary, Kingsbury Redevelopment Corporation, has submitted a proposal to rehabilitate 125 units in the present Ranleigh-Willmar building, DeBaliviere and McPherson, as housing for the elderly.
Alderman John Roach has requested the SDCC to give priority to means of publicizing investment opportunities in local real estate to local residents.
Three members of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council's housing committee have met with city treasurer Paul Berra.
At the same time, Team 4 is working out details of the site plan so that costs can be estimated for the project before submitting to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for approval.
Kingsbury Redevelopment Corporation, an outgrowth of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, is still working on its function, the rebuilding of the area between Delmar and DeGiverville, west of DeBaliviere.
The first seed money obtained for the triangle area redevelopment program in the DeBaliviere-DeGiverville area is being used for a market survey required by HUD when the redevelopment proposal is submitted.
Nine undergraduates from Washington University are currently doing a housing survey of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area under the direction of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council and Ecumenical Campus Ministries.
