One advantage of living in a metropolitan area is that education is all around us.
Category: SDCC
Under the auspicies of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, the Residential Service covers several different areas.
Because it had no grants, no money, not even a glimmer of a budget, the summer recreation program of the Skinker-De Baliviere area was slow in getting started.
Plans for the redevelopment of the "triangle area," the northeast corner of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area from Delmar back to Waterman and the 5800 block of DeGiverville are continuing.
Surveys of residential and commercial areas designated for redevelopment under the Neighborhood Development Incentive Program have been completed in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
Within the Skinker-DeBaliviere area there are approximately 2,500 children ranging from ages six to thirteen (the combined enrollment of Hamilton and St. Roch's schools.) Perhaps there are half again that many in the fourteen to nineteen age group; no figures are available.
The City Forestry Division has completed the planting of hardy varieties of trees along Des Peres and DeBaliviere.
The Skinker-DeBaliviere Neighborhood Information Center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 6008 Kingsbury.
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.
Cal Stuart, Skinker-DeBaliviere executive director, said that the council's resource committee has been considering programs that block clubs could sponsor, such as softball teams, block parties and planned recreation for younger children.
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.
