historic preservation

My latest Vital Voice column,

There's a new website called "Save the San Luis" -- referring to the threatened San Luis Apartments at Lindell and Taylor in the Central West End -- located at NoParkingLotonLindell.com.

While demolition permit numbers show that the peak decade for material building loss in the Old North St. Louis and St. Louis Place neighborhoods was 1970-1980, a substantial slower loss has transpired since then. The cumulative result is that streetscapes recognizable as urban places twenty-five years ago now form desolate landscapes lacking architectural definition.