Forest Park Southeast

CE: 13th Jul 2007 - 02:25 GMT

The first half of the article make it look like a very wealthy neighbourhood and the second half makes it look very poor. is there a class divide somewhere or is it just in the process of gentrification?

serlingrod: 13th Jul 2007 - 03:05 GMT

to me the first half looks like a middle-class neighborhood that's always been stable...the second half looks like a result of white flight. just my guess.....what's the story? thanks so much for sharing by the way...the housing stock reminds me alot of Philly (which isn't terribly surprising). I was surprised to find out recently that St. Louis isn't the most populous city in Missouri (KC is)....whenever I think of Missouri I think of St. Louis first......

CE: 13th Jul 2007 - 07:22 GMT

The first half seem so wealthy to me because they look very much like the housing stock in parts of Westmount (and some of the wealthier areas of NDG) here in Montreal. These neighbourhoods (Westmount especially) are very rich and have an architectural style that is purposefully very different from the rest of the city but very similar to the houses here.

I really like your articles from St. Louis. I never would have guessed that it was such a nice city.

maybetoday: 14th Jul 2007 - 21:11 GMT

I don't know a whole lot about the history of this neighborhood. I do know that it is in the midst of gentrification right now. It seems to me that the housing on blocks in the first half of the article were rehabbed quite a while ago. Restoration St. Louis has been rehabbing vacant buildings, mostly on the neighborhood's main commercial corridor (much of the latter half of the article), for the last few years.