Historical reprint: Joe Roberts, Business/Real Estate Editor, The Kansas City Star, Sunday, December 3, 1978; reproduced in The Paper, March 1979.
Category: Urban Redevelopment
The Nina Place Study Committee, a committee of the Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council, has not been officially active during December and January, although the work of the consultants, Team Four, Inc., in completing a survey of the housing and residents in the Nina Place area has gone forward.
Central West End Savings and Loan Association, the first new state chartered savings and loan institution in Missouri in seventeen years, and in the St. Louis metropolitan area in twenty-five years, will be the anchor tenant in the historic Dorr and Zeller building on Waterman and DeBaliviere, the heart of that burgeoning redevelopment area.
In June of this year, the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council was successful in its application to CDA to use $21,500 in community development funds to hire a professional consulting firm to study the Nina Place area and make recommendations for its future.
In May of this year, the SDCC set up a special committee, aptly named the Nina Place Study Committee, and given the responsibility of determining if the Council should apply for "Development of Capacity" funds, administered through CDA, to be used for conducting a full survey of Nina Place and its environs, and making recommendations for its future.
Residents of the 5900 block of McPherson and others gathered on the vacant lot Saturday, April 15th, to discuss improvement of the lot.
Adolph K.
Historical April 1978 reporting or notice.
Original student work from The Paper, April 1978.
Saint Louis Mayor Jim Conway has announced the formation of a new 18-member task force to develop guidelines for historic preservation in the City.
The November meeting was extremely interesting with plenty of new items for discussion.
In the coming weeks and months, the City of St. Louis will be carrying out a massive city-wide neighborhood improvement program with a $10 million Public Works grant from the Economic Development Agency of the United States Department of Commerce.
