St. Louis Magazine recently highlighted a group looking to beautify alleyways using native plants. Why don’t we take it a step further and reclaim our alleys from trash dumpers and make St Louis one of the most pedestrian friendly cities in the world by beautifying our alleyways.
The Hill is thinking about a historic district but unlike many historic neighborhoods, the architecture may actually be one of its drawbacks (outside of St Ambrose). The hill is a successful story because it is centered on a church/school and has a thriving mix use community of bakeries, housing, bars, and restaurants. It’s completely walkable and bikeable but preserving shotgun houses does nothing to bolster it.
Greater St. Louis Inc has a retail improvement incentive. Why not use a small portion of that money to buy St. Louis flags and give them to any building downtown that has a flagpole? There are so many empty flag poles downtown. I think such a small gesture would go a long way!