Positively St. Louis: Demolition of vacant properties in the City of St. Louis means economic growt

In 2022, “The Vacancy Project” was awarded $15M in ARPA Funds through the St. Louis Regional Crime Commission (STLRCC) to focus on abandoned buildings and overgrown lots that tend to be hotspots for crime.
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[@justlookingaround]

Tearing down brick properties to put up cheap crappy properties 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-pe2rz5wb9p]

Amen

[@user-pe2rz5wb9p]

Those older buildings have history, so much history

[@damham5689]

Cheaply built. Not cheaply sold.

[@damham5689]

If Slay is involved you know at least $10 million of the $15 million will be given to friends of Slay and Slay will get a lot in kickbacks. Just as he did when he had the schoolboard stacked with his cronies. There was so much corruption by Slay and his people the state had to take over the school board.

[@davidm6256]

That's going to be 95% of north St Louis

[@robertwalker7979]

That was the original point. While you're on RUclips search "St Louis benign neglect" & prepared to be shocked if u didn't already know🤷🏾‍♂️

[@M.Booker]

I wonder if any of that money was from my stolen car that the city towed once they found it severely damaged and then sold it during an auction. They took the funds from the sale for almost 10k without paying me anything. I was told that the proceeds went towards an economic fund.

[@Chrunchmunch]

How much money?

[@PK-pp3lu]

Oh wow, tearing down old brick buildings that could be renovated and look like they used to to build new flimsy structures, good job.

[@damham5689]

I remember whn Jack Dorsey gave the city a huge sum amount of money to tear down abondoned properties was hailed as a "game changer too"

[@wack8589]

That's gonna stop crime

[@PK-pp3lu]

😹😹

[@jeffer0987]

Definitely gotta watch they are not demolishing property to lessen the saturation, empty or occupied or abandoned, it holds some sort of market value, by removing it you lessen the number available, were the in terrible conditions, its still an available location it’s up to you rehab, by removing it can increase the price of available property, without actual work been done to improve anything, you’ll be paying more tax

[@macrc2129]

As long as HUD doesn't have anything to do with this, we're good.

[@RonsHorse]

Realtors Gold mine plus government assistance!! Money,money.... for everybody involved

[@patrickschneider1289]

Mill CREEK AREA MANY YEARS AGO

[@patrickschneider1289]

Great for farmland ! One big park , urban renewal. LRA OWNED ?

[@user-ue2nc2bw5p]

Here's a good place to put a significant amount if the $250 million rams settlement.

[@RandleP]

#RandleReed supports the awesome idea and the awesome #fox2now team that provided the story

[@patrickschneider1289]

Biggest slum lord

[@LovinThemPirates]

Are those apartments? Is St Louis a 15minutecity yet?

[@rcstl8815]

Yep, that's how long it takes to get away from it.

[@wack8589]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@YouuuMaddddBroooo]

This was a long time coming...our firefighters are in danger when they enter these empty buildings during fires.

[@phillhuddleston9445]

No need to enter empty buildings!

[@rcstl8815]

@@phillhuddleston9445 That's a fools errand. Just spray water on it until it goes out.

[@user-zx4gn9so3j]

Good