One Day’s Activities Reflect Vibrant Community in Old North
Saturday may not have been a typical day in Old North, but it sure reflected the positive energy fueling the neighborhood’s revitalization and demonstrated how active the community is. As noted in yesterday’s post here, the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group is in the midst of moving our offices and community space down the street, to the heart of the Crown Square redevelopment. While a Saturday ordinarily would be an ideal day to mobilize our dependable army of volunteers to help with the move, many of these individuals were deployed to various other community projects throughout the neighborhood, including:
- The Metropolis St. Louis tour of Old North;
- A vacant building board-up initiative, coordinated by the “Macho Action Group”, a division of ONSLRG’s Real Estate Committee;
- An event focused on the dynamics of community development, held at the Urban Studio Cafe with the Brown School of Social Work; and
- Construction of a wheelchair ramp by neighborhood volunteers for a long-time resident who experienced complications after hip-replacement surgery.
All of this played out against the backdrop of a beautiful November day, which brought out throngs of visitors to the neighborhood, many of whom chose to wait in the long line out the door at ONSL’s favorite ice cream parlor / lunch spot, Crown Candy Kitchen. See below for a sampling of photos from this extraordinary slice of community life in Old North St. Louis.
Metropolis visitors toured Crown Square, including ONSLRG's new space (in the background)
Graham Lane showed off the creative adaptation of warehouse space as a cool, loft-style home.
Nico Leone (in the white t-shirt) led a tour through the home he is rehabbing on Wright Street and pointed out that the stairs were constructed from timbers salvaged from a nearby warehouse.
Macho Action Group volunteers cutting plywood and gathering materials for securing vacant buildings.
Boarding up a building on Palm Street, to keep it protected from the elements and vandals, so that it can survive long enough for a future rehab. Hey, isn't that Graham Lane, again?
ONSLRG's practicum student, Meghan Baer (in the purple shirt), helping set up at the Urban Studio Cafe for the program with her fellow students from Washington University's Brown School of Social Work.
The line at Crown Candy stretched out the door.
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