STLrainbow
@stlrainbow.bsky.social
Rusty Rust Belter With A Spring in My Step. President, Saint Louis Society for the Preservation of Two-Fams
STL City's population in 1880 was 350,000 and the large majority lived in an area under 10 sq. miles. It's existing boundaries were created in 1876 but most of the city was undeveloped.
1875 Pictoral St. Louis plates for an area just north of downtown and another in today's Shaw & TGE n'hoods.
1875 Pictoral St. Louis plates for an area just north of downtown and another in today's Shaw & TGE n'hoods.
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
STL City's population in 1880 was 350,000 and the large majority lived in an area under 10 sq. miles. It's existing boundaries were created in 1876 but most of the city was undeveloped.
1875 Pictoral St. Louis plates for an area just north of downtown and another in today's Shaw & TGE n'hoods.
1875 Pictoral St. Louis plates for an area just north of downtown and another in today's Shaw & TGE n'hoods.
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Crews were called to the fire near 2nd and Cedar streets at about 3 a.m., said St. Louis fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson. He said the buildings were part of the old Crunden-Martin Warehouses.
Massive fire engulfs old factory buildings south of downtown St. Louis
Crews were called to the fire near 2nd and Cedar streets at about 3 a.m., said St. Louis fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson. He said the buildings were part of the
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November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Crews were called to the fire near 2nd and Cedar streets at about 3 a.m., said St. Louis fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson. He said the buildings were part of the old Crunden-Martin Warehouses.
Did you know the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is Withnell Wednesday?
Some snaps:
On the Soulard side, old front and alley houses on the same parcel are up for sale. (A glimpse of A-B is in background.) It’s across from St. Agatha’s School.
On the Benton Park side, a new old home is going up. 1/
Some snaps:
On the Soulard side, old front and alley houses on the same parcel are up for sale. (A glimpse of A-B is in background.) It’s across from St. Agatha’s School.
On the Benton Park side, a new old home is going up. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Did you know the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is Withnell Wednesday?
Some snaps:
On the Soulard side, old front and alley houses on the same parcel are up for sale. (A glimpse of A-B is in background.) It’s across from St. Agatha’s School.
On the Benton Park side, a new old home is going up. 1/
Some snaps:
On the Soulard side, old front and alley houses on the same parcel are up for sale. (A glimpse of A-B is in background.) It’s across from St. Agatha’s School.
On the Benton Park side, a new old home is going up. 1/
Listing pic of a tornado-ravaged four-family in Greater Ville going up for auction sale. The July 2025 google Streetview imagery for this block is truly a disaster zone. Have safe, secure housing? Be very thankful.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Listing pic of a tornado-ravaged four-family in Greater Ville going up for auction sale. The July 2025 google Streetview imagery for this block is truly a disaster zone. Have safe, secure housing? Be very thankful.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
Good to see @mobotgarden.bsky.social continue with it’s work to document and interpret the lives of the human beings enslaved by Henry Shaw.
Pics: Garden Glow light show cast onto facade of Shaw’s Tower Grove House and two of the interpretive panels inside.
Pics: Garden Glow light show cast onto facade of Shaw’s Tower Grove House and two of the interpretive panels inside.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Good to see @mobotgarden.bsky.social continue with it’s work to document and interpret the lives of the human beings enslaved by Henry Shaw.
Pics: Garden Glow light show cast onto facade of Shaw’s Tower Grove House and two of the interpretive panels inside.
Pics: Garden Glow light show cast onto facade of Shaw’s Tower Grove House and two of the interpretive panels inside.
A new day is dropping tomorrow.... Withnell Wednesday!
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A new day is dropping tomorrow.... Withnell Wednesday!
Thanks to some posters at urbanstl, I was able to piece together what used to be on the Boy's & Girls Club site back in the day. In 1875 (Compton & Dry) there was a Brewery and Church of the Assumption and School. Fuerbacher's Lion House and Green Tree Brewery across Sidney are circled in green. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thanks to some posters at urbanstl, I was able to piece together what used to be on the Boy's & Girls Club site back in the day. In 1875 (Compton & Dry) there was a Brewery and Church of the Assumption and School. Fuerbacher's Lion House and Green Tree Brewery across Sidney are circled in green. 1/
Samesies in St. Louis.
Clear lesson here for Baltimore which provides lucrative tax subsidies for new market rate apartments. Developers responded w/ thousands of new studios & 1BR. But the city continued to lose population as gains in # of single households failed to offset continued loss of children & their families.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Samesies in St. Louis.
This is an important piece from Sunday's print edition. Other neighborhoods have been hit with "catch ups" in prior re-assessment periods. When gentrification crosses paths with an antiquated city government, the increased tax bills for long-time residents can be shocking.
Property taxes are rising across the region, but nowhere more than in a handful of neighborhoods in southeastern St. Louis, where residents have been shocked to receive statements with eye-popping increases in bills. From @kelseylandis.bsky.social and me.
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www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Some St. Louis residents are seeing huge spikes in property taxes. What happened?
Property taxes are rising across the region, but nowhere more than some south St. Louis neighborhoods. Residents there are getting eye-popping bills.
www.stltoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is an important piece from Sunday's print edition. Other neighborhoods have been hit with "catch ups" in prior re-assessment periods. When gentrification crosses paths with an antiquated city government, the increased tax bills for long-time residents can be shocking.
Remember, kids, when you need some pizza from S Kingshighway, make it Bud’s.
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Remember, kids, when you need some pizza from S Kingshighway, make it Bud’s.
A month later, the rehabbed house has sold and the neighboring property on the tax sale is getting some work done.
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A month later, the rehabbed house has sold and the neighboring property on the tax sale is getting some work done.
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A city program that aimed to provide tenants displaced from their homes with financial aid began accepting applications on Friday after failing to do so for its first year.
A year in, St. Louis fund to help tenants displaced from their homes begins taking applications
The Impacted Tenants Fund offers one-time financial assistance to people displaced from their homes.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A city program that aimed to provide tenants displaced from their homes with financial aid began accepting applications on Friday after failing to do so for its first year.
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🙌🏽 You can apply for financial help from the Impacted Tenants Fund starting today! Have you been forced to move due to the condemnation of your rental unit by the City? Apply in person at Employment Connection or online: form.jotform.com/253187680909...
City of St. Louis Impacted Tenants Fund Application
Please click the link to complete this form.
form.jotform.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🙌🏽 You can apply for financial help from the Impacted Tenants Fund starting today! Have you been forced to move due to the condemnation of your rental unit by the City? Apply in person at Employment Connection or online: form.jotform.com/253187680909...
"Seditious Behavior" is a hella band name. Also, orange piggy needs to be quiet.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Seditious Behavior" is a hella band name. Also, orange piggy needs to be quiet.
Unfortunately this well-intentioned "Right to Counsel" program has fallen short of its goals and needs to be fully funded. HUDZ is having a hearing this everning at 6. I believe the public can also testify via zoom.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Unfortunately this well-intentioned "Right to Counsel" program has fallen short of its goals and needs to be fully funded. HUDZ is having a hearing this everning at 6. I believe the public can also testify via zoom.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
Why not commission a large sculpture of a toasted rav and plop it in the middle of some grass? It could rival the bean!
“Dean, the convention bureau CEO, acknowledged a parking lot was a bit of a letdown, but said it was the best choice for now.” 😑😑😑
www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Outdoor plaza scrapped for St. Louis convention center. It will remain a parking lot.
The decision marks the latest retreat for a $250 million expansion that has steadily shed much of its initial ambition.
www.stltoday.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Why not commission a large sculpture of a toasted rav and plop it in the middle of some grass? It could rival the bean!
A potentially big redevelopment for a future Sidney Street, Soulard, Sunday post is the Gene Slay Boys & Girls Club. It is planning to move to Dutchtown (to a portion of the St. Mary's Southside Catholic High property it's buying) and then sell its current site.
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A potentially big redevelopment for a future Sidney Street, Soulard, Sunday post is the Gene Slay Boys & Girls Club. It is planning to move to Dutchtown (to a portion of the St. Mary's Southside Catholic High property it's buying) and then sell its current site.
How bleak is this $1M sales tax break? Oddly no financial analysis is provided in the bill, but based on the expected jobs and salaries provided, simple math shows that the project's earnings and payroll taxes will only generate around $34K/yr. It'll take 2+ decades to generate $1M in city taxes.
Excessive TIF is bad enough. But piling on even more tax breaks seems particularly bleak.
Tues. at 11 a.m.
BOA #HUDZ Committee hearing: tinyurl.com/yvry6yp4
#BOAbb83 was added to agenda Sunday at 8:16 p.m.
For tax breaks, BOA often acts to minimize opportunity for public comment/opposition. See quoted post for why BB83 is a racket
#CortexTIF means 0 sales tax revenue for city coffers!
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BOA #HUDZ Committee hearing: tinyurl.com/yvry6yp4
#BOAbb83 was added to agenda Sunday at 8:16 p.m.
For tax breaks, BOA often acts to minimize opportunity for public comment/opposition. See quoted post for why BB83 is a racket
#CortexTIF means 0 sales tax revenue for city coffers!
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November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
How bleak is this $1M sales tax break? Oddly no financial analysis is provided in the bill, but based on the expected jobs and salaries provided, simple math shows that the project's earnings and payroll taxes will only generate around $34K/yr. It'll take 2+ decades to generate $1M in city taxes.
Now back to my regular programming of giving our City government grief.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Now back to my regular programming of giving our City government grief.
I give the City of St. Louis a lot of (well-deserved) grief, but the RETAF program started a few years ago that helps homeowners at risk of losing their homes at tax sale is a fantastic program. Here's a RETAF presentation at HUDZ today. Kudos to all involved.
youtu.be/mkHbbaWEggw?...
youtu.be/mkHbbaWEggw?...
Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee - November 18, 2025
YouTube video by City of St. Louis, Missouri
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November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I give the City of St. Louis a lot of (well-deserved) grief, but the RETAF program started a few years ago that helps homeowners at risk of losing their homes at tax sale is a fantastic program. Here's a RETAF presentation at HUDZ today. Kudos to all involved.
youtu.be/mkHbbaWEggw?...
youtu.be/mkHbbaWEggw?...
The 80 townhome project adjacent to I-44 on The Hill has received approval from the Planning Commission. The old school buildings are cleared and construction could begin before too long.
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The 80 townhome project adjacent to I-44 on The Hill has received approval from the Planning Commission. The old school buildings are cleared and construction could begin before too long.
Excessive TIF is bad enough. But piling on even more tax breaks seems particularly bleak.
Tues. at 11 a.m.
BOA #HUDZ Committee hearing: tinyurl.com/yvry6yp4
#BOAbb83 was added to agenda Sunday at 8:16 p.m.
For tax breaks, BOA often acts to minimize opportunity for public comment/opposition. See quoted post for why BB83 is a racket
#CortexTIF means 0 sales tax revenue for city coffers!
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BOA #HUDZ Committee hearing: tinyurl.com/yvry6yp4
#BOAbb83 was added to agenda Sunday at 8:16 p.m.
For tax breaks, BOA often acts to minimize opportunity for public comment/opposition. See quoted post for why BB83 is a racket
#CortexTIF means 0 sales tax revenue for city coffers!
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November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Excessive TIF is bad enough. But piling on even more tax breaks seems particularly bleak.