Does anyone at the post know how to reduce the size of an image?

I noticed the flier on the door says the building is owned by Paul McKee. It’s nice to see he’s investing all that money we, the taxpayers, gave him to develop the city.

pssstttt!!!!!
you cannot say Paul McKee’s name in The City.
you cannot print his name in connection with his landbank, and neglected properties that multiply as young mothers refuse to raise children in the shadow of drug dealers and hookers benefiting from free shelter in abandoned buildings that yes, we WILL pay for, at $10M a year, for the next ten years, and that we, Federally, will pay another half million to have kids cut the grass.
He uses pre-paid phones and credit cards on his buying junkets, in Slayton, in an effort to secure the plot for Gentrification.
So, if the Post-Dispatch and all other news agencies cannot print the name, even as rush hour helicopters report on the collapse of the Clemens mansion, also criminally neglected, then yes, show it in a photograph, and take the kudos for cleverness. A rare act of anti-authoritarianism by a commercial enterprise, posing as a newspaper.

By the way, at least some mention should go to Alderman Sam Moore, who has been vocal on this for much longer, and who, I believe coined the phrase “Brick Eaters”.

There may be occasions where brick thieves back into a wall. But if that’s the case, they could save the effort. Collapsed buildings on the north side sit there for years, just waiting for somebody to pick through the rubble. Brick patio, anyone?

The north side for years has been deteriorating for years and that’s why Mr. Mckee is buying those vacant properties, the plan is to rebuild and move residents to the county areas. Since the schools are unaccredited, the hope is most people will move to county areas for better schools, and a migration of whites will move back to the city.

Kissoff obviously hasn’t been to the North Side in a while.

Pat Mitchell: Your premise assumes Whites are more accepting of unaccredited schools. Or do you think white retirees from the CTY are going to move to Cass Ave.? Either is completely preposterous.

I’m confused, Pat,
but sarcasm (?) can do that to me…
…so, the plan is for the poor black residents of the North City, to move to the County, avail themselves of the better schools…
while the already educated white folk move back into The City?

Then I’d say the $100M would have been better spent on a Homesteader Plan.

At least with people IN the houses, one could hope for a police patrol on the beat. Instead, we are installing’ shot detectors’, external electronic devices, to signal that “sector twelve” is having a meltdown, so, send in the troops.

“Kissoff obviously hasn’t been to the North Side in a while.”
— bizniche28

Clearly… the north side no longer looks like Berlin in 1945… it looks like Berlin in 1946. Signs of people trying to live there, but still mostly rubble.

I just love all the Paul McKee ‘love’ here, as well as all the ‘love’ of new white people moving into the city. Why anyone would want to put any money into the city with this kind of ’support’ is beyond me.

Perhaps, caning brick theives…

“the plan is to rebuild and move residents to the county areas.”

Are we just assuming all of these people living in the North Side can afford to move to the county? Or is McKee going to subsidize their moves with his millions of dollars?

bizniche28 - On the contrary, I’ve been to the north side lots of times, and know my way around there better than most people who live here. I am aware that there are pockets of improvement, both rehabbing of historic buildings and new construction. But for every rehabbed home, there’s hundreds of decaying ones. If you aren’t aware of this, perhaps YOU haven’t been to the north side in a while.

Couldn’t the City forbid buying brick from anyone without a City business license?

http://keepstlouisfree.blogspot.com/2008/09/alderman-freeman-bosley-sr-law-to-stop.html