ONSLRG’s Annual Meeting & Pot-Luck Supper: Mon., Jan. 31

All members, friends, and supporters of Old North St. Louis Restoration Group are invited to join us on Monday, January 31st at 6 p.m. for ONSLRG’s Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Supper.  One of the great community events of the year, the gathering provides an opportunity for residents and friends to come together on a cold winter evening to celebrate the warmth of the community and publicly recognize all of those who helped make the previous year so successful.

Over the past few years we’ve moved this event around to different locations in the neighborhood.  This year, we’ll be gathering at the old Sobel’s Dept. Store building at 2624 N. 14th Street, at the center of what had been the 14th Street Mall, but now at the intersection of the re-opened N. 14th Street and Montgomery.  If you haven’t taken a look at Crown Square since the redevelopment finished and the street opened, this is a great chance to get inside one of the historically rehabbed buildings at this award-winning development.

As noted on the flyer, we invite all guests to bring a dish to share and have provided some suggested guidelines for the type of dish to bring (to avoid 100 pots of spaghetti), but we encourage you to bring whatever you’d like to share or to join us even if you won’t be able to bring something.

And, speaking of food, this year’s event will feature something new.  In the late ’90s ONSLRG produced a cookbook, “Out of Old North Saint Louis Kitchens,” to collect and put the spotlight on the many great recipes created or lovingly used by Old North residents, including many reflecting the diverse cultures of the community’s population.  The cookbook has been out of print now for several years, but we were approached recently about an opportunity to use that old cookbook as a jumping off point for a new initiative that celebrates both food and community…

DISCOVER: TEAM COOKBOOK

This creative team consists of an Artist/Cultural Activist, a Museum Educator, an MSW and an Art Administrator. They love to cook, they love to eat, love to talk about food… food history, celebrations… the way food can bring people together (or drive them apart).

TEAM COOKBOOK will be collecting recipes, stories and photos from residents and providing workshops and activities inspired by food in Old North St. Louis.

You can meet the TEAM and learn more about how to get involved in the project at the Annual Meeting and Potluck on Monday, January 31.

Bring your favorite recipe, your camera and most importantly your appetite!

Give us a call at 314-241-5031 if you have any questions.  As always, we invite you to help  us spread the word and invite all of your neighbors to come on out for this wonderful community event.

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Huge Year for Old North in 2010 - Part 2

Our year-end inventory of the major events and developments in Old North during 2010 started on Friday with Part 1.  We now continue the review of what made 2010 such an eventful year with an even longer list in Part 2…

NORTH CITY FARMERS’ MARKET AMONG TOP 20 OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE FARMERS MARKETS

Although the North City Farmers’ Market had to move around a bit due to the street work along 14th Street and at the St. Louis Avenue plaza area, the 4th season of the market was still a great success.  In fact, this year friends of the North City Farmers’ Market showed the intensity of their support by logging enough votes in American Farmland Trust’s annual competition to get the North City Farmers’ Market into the top 20 list of ”America’s Favorite Farmers’ Markets” (among other markets of similar size)!  In addition to that national exposure, the market got some major air-time on July 31 when the KMOX Radio program “Mike Miller’s Garden Hotline” broadcast live from the market (as seen in the final photo below).

Special thanks go out to all of the volunteers who came out week after week to help with setting up tables and tents, staffing some of the food and information stands, taking down everything at the end of the market, and countless other chores; and to Sarah Pritchard, market master; Lucas Hudson, project coordinator at the beginning of the season until leaving to pursue a career in law enforcement; Veronica Holden, who took over as project coordinator for the rest of the season; and Ivy Tominack (seen in the 3rd photo below), who joined the team this year as nutrition education coordinator; and, of course, Missouri Foundation for Health for providing the financial support that has made it possible for us to host the past four seasons of the North City Farmers’ Market.

ARTS EVENTS AND PROGRAMMING

The Old North Gallery (sometimes referred to here as the “Crown Village Gallery”) in the space adjacent to ONSLRG’s office at 2700 N. 14th Street buzzed with arts events all year long.  ONSLRG partnered with Cinema St. Louis to bring monthly film screenings to the community, often with Q & A sessions with the films’ producers or directors (shown in the 1st photo below), and special screenings for students from Ames School and Confluence Academy (in the 2nd photo below); and Metro Theater Company to bring live performances of Delilah’s Wish.  In July, the monthly story-telling gathering called “Moth-Up” took place at our gallery.

At other times throughout the year, visitors from throughout the St. Louis area came to view exhibits at the gallery, including the professionally-curated Visionary Arts of Haiti exhibit brought to us by Missouri Immigrant & Refugee Advocates; and a display of works by local artists Chris Ruess and Nick Riggio at the rehabbed Crown Square commercial space that once housed Sobel’s Dept. Store; events hosted by the Mayor’s Vanguard Cabinet Subcommittee on Arts and Entertainment, or the Metropolis Wine Club; the graduation celebration for the Pulitzer Foundation’s Hyde Park youth arts program (the Pulitzer is also responsible for bringing the “waving hand” images that are posted at various locations throughout the neighborhood); and for Juan Chavez’s snow cone project during the Crown Square completion street party.  Watch for more art projects from Juan in the coming year.

OTHER COMMUNITY & EDUCATIONAL EVENTS / PROGRAMS AT OLD NORTH GALLERY

In 2010, the Old North gallery space became the most popular spot in the neighborhood for meetings, parties, educational workshops, and other community gatherings.  Among the many events in the gallery this year were ONSLRG’s Annual Meeting & Pot-Luck Supper; a finance & budgeting workshop with presenters from Bank of America; Quality of Life meetings, including presentations about neighborhood safety and MODOT’s plans for the Mississippi River Bridge and re-building the St. Louis Avenue and Madison Street overpasses; a workshop on weatherization techniques and resources; several training sessions for the Minority Contractors Initiative; a meeting of the Covidien Community Advisory Panel; the annual breakfast meeting for the Workers Rights Board; planning meetings for the Old North Grocery Co-op; an 80th birthday party; and the October of the St. Louis Beacon’s monthly “Beacon & Eggs” gatherings.

ACTIVITIES AT OLD NORTH’S COMMUNITY GARDENS & NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION WORK

Depending on how you define a community garden and who you ask, Old North is home to anywhere from 9 to 11 community gardens.  In any case, the gardens throughout Old North benefited from countless hours of volunteer labor from neighborhood residents and various outside groups, including service clubs from several colleges and other volunteers brought in by Operation Brightside to help with significant improvements to Wingmann Park.  The annual Brightside Blitz clean-up day in the spring brought even more help for these gardens, as well as for clean-ups at vacant lots, alleys, and streets throughout the neighborhood.  This year’s effort included extra help from Maryville University students with the planting of trees from Forest ReLeaf.

13th STREET GARDEN DESIGNATED AS A GATEWAY GREENING ”HUB GARDEN”

The community garden that saw the most activity throughout the year was the 13th Street Garden, which grows fruits and vegetables for the North City Farmers’ Market and the Old North Grocery Co-op.  Under the watchful eye of garden coordinator Veronica Holden, the garden also became home to some of Old North’s most popular new residents, the inhabitants of the 13th Street Garden Chicken Coop.  Another highlight of the year was the selection of the 13th Street Garden by Gateway Greening for designation as one of their Hub Gardens, which means additional support and investments from Gateway Greening and expanded use as a demonstration and learning space for gardeners throughout St. Louis.

NEW BUSINESSES ON 14th STREET

If attracting and retaining residents is important for a neighborhood on the way to becoming sustainable, it’s also key to attract and support businesses that make the community more walkable and economically viable. New businesses opening up on N. 14th Street included Therapy Boutique at 2717 (shown in the first two photos below), Norah Ryan’s law office (with Norah shown below, getting interviewed by Matt Sepic of St. Louis Public Radio - and the story still can be found on St. Louis Public Radio’s website by clicking HERE ), which moved from Clayton to 2708 N. 14th, and Poor Souls Society Art Gallery, which opened in December.

TOURS AND VISITS FROM FAR & WIDE

The Annual Old North St. Louis House & Community Tour in May is traditionally the biggest event of the year for ONSLRG.  This year’s tour on May 8 featured two current Landmarks Association “Most Enhanced Award”-winning projects and two Most Enhanced Award-winning homes from previous years, although the work in progress in the street along 14th Street caused a few challenges.

(Be sure to check back later for details about plans for a bigger and better tour this year, scheduled for Saturday, May 14, including the addition of a HomeGrown Street Festival on 14th Street to put the spotlight on all of the great locally produced foods and other goods from around St. Louis.)

Other groups paying a visit to the ONSLRG office for presentations and tours this year included another delegation of community development professionals from Russia (in the first photo below), members of the Retail Design Institute, attendees from a national conference for Metropolitan Planning Organizations, representatives from Federal Reserve Bank branches around the country, UM-Extension’s Community Development Academy, and classes from various programs at SLU, Washington University, UM-St. Louis, Mizzou, and Webster University.  We also welcomed several visits from former residents who came back to the progress in their old neighborhood.

BECOMING A MORE BIKE-ABLE & WALKABLE COMMUNITY

In 2010 we hosted several steering committee and community planning meetings for the Bikeable/Walkable Old North Master Plan, spear-headed by Trailnet and their planning consultants, and in October, the last of the year’s Open Streets came through Old North, with Crown Square serving as one of the major activity hubs.

NEW BOOK HIGHLIGHTS REVITALIZATION IN OLD NORTH

Andrew Hurley, chair of the UM-St. Louis History Dept., has put Old North in the spotlight with his new book, Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities, which was published in May by Temple University Press.  The book is available for purchase through a major online retailer, but you might want to start by checking with one of our local, independent booksellers, such as Left Bank Books, just a mile south of Old North in Downtown St. Louis.

OTHER EVENTS INITIATED BY NEIGHBORS

A lot of outsiders take note of the highly visible physical transformation that has taken place with many of the neighborhood’s historically rehabbed properties, but the real evidence of the Old North’s revitalization is in the incredibly active people who call Old North home.  Among the events initiated and coordinated by Old North residents this year included a lively and well-attended National Night Out celebration on N. 19th Street in August and a great Halloween party and trick-or-treating event in October.

One of the year’s best demonstrations of neighbors supporting each other was the successful campaign to mobilize enough votes to help Graham & Viveca Lane win the KSHE-95 Great Green Yard Giveaway contest. The Lanes may have won the contest, but the whole community benefits from the investments that have brought major improvements to the corner of 13th and North Market.

Thanks again to all who helped make all of the above happen.  Stay tuned for much more to come, and plan to join us on Monday, January 31st for Old North St. Louis Restoration Group’s Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Supper where we’ll provide a preview of some of our plans for 2011.

Happy New Year!

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Upcoming Events in Old North include North City Farmers’ Market End of Season Celebration, Metro Theater Co. Play, and Cinema St. Louis Film

The next 9 days will bring a steady stream of events and activities to Old North.

On Thursday the 14th, the Old North Grocery Co-op will hold its first official meeting for Member-Owners (and you can join us for that — all you have to do is join the co-op!  Visit the Membership Page at OldNorthGrocery.com to join online or to download a membership form).

On Friday, October 15th, the St. Louis Beacon will bring “Beacon & Eggs” to the Old North Gallery.  This event, scheduled to start at 8 a.m., includes an opportunity to meet editors and staff from the Beacon prior to an hour-hour long panel discussion on the topic of Old North’s current wave of development and recent activities.  Panelists include Sean Thomas, ONSLRG’s executive director; Claire Wolff of the Urban Studio Cafe; Avis Laden from Habitat for Humanity St. Louis; and Ebony Wilson, who will be opening Therapy, a new fashion boutique at 2717 N. 14th this week.

On Saturday, October 16, the North City Farmers’ Market will hold the last market day of the season from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. along N. 14th Street just south of St. Louis Avenue.  If you haven’t been to the market this year, don’t miss this last opportunity in 2010 to experience one of America’s “Top 20″ Favorite Markets, especially since the season-end celebration will include a battle of celebrity chefs (Brian Hale from the Chase Park Plaza vs. award-winning chef Jack MacMurray of Sage restaurant), a Brownie Competition (bring out your best brownies and you could win a fancy dinner prepared by our own Chef Ivy!), a Cactus Display by local artist Seitu, and live music by Raw Earth, a Gardening Class on the topic of “Preparing for next year”, PLUS crafts, baked goods, and LOCAL PRODUCE!

On both Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th, at 1 p.m., Metro Theater Company will bring the play, Delilah’s Wish, to the Old North Gallery.  The play, which is set in Old North St. Louis, features local playwrite and actress Mariah Richardson in the family-friendly performance.  The play is free (although a $5 contribution is requested to help offset the costs).

At 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, ONSLRG and Trailnet will co-host a community meeting at the the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group office and gallery on the topic of the planning for a Bikeable & Walkable Master Plan for Old North.  Come on out to see how the plan is coming together and to offer your ideas and suggestions for making improvements to the sidewalks, streets, and other paths throughout the neighborhood.

On Friday, October 22nd at 7 p.m., the Old North Gallery will open its doors for another free film brought to us through a partnership of ONSLRG and Cinema St. Louis.  The October feature is a Halloween treat, the animated film, “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.”  The movie starts at 7 p.m.

For information about any of these events or activities, call the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group at 314-241-5031.

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You’re Invited to a Discussion about What’s Next for Old North St. Louis

Now that the Crown Square project is basically finished, and we’ve successfully launched the Old North Grocery Co-op, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group is seeking community input and ideas for sustaining and expanding the neighborhood’s revitalization.  With that in mind, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group will host a community meeting next Saturday, August 28 at 1:00 p.m. at the ONSLRG Gallery, 2700 N. 14th Street, to discuss ideas and priorities for our ongoing efforts to revitalize the physical and social dimensions of the Old North neighborhood in a manner that respects the community’s historic, cultural, and urban character.

All residents and friends of the neighborhood are invited to participate in the dialogue.  Please help us get the word out and pass this information along to any who care about OId North and would be interested in helping.  Click here for a PDF version of the meeting flyer.

For more information about the meeting, call the ONSLRG office at 314-241-5031.

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Community Workshop for a More Walkable / Bikeable Old North

Join us Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. at ONSLRG’s community gallery (2700 N. 14th Street) for the first community workshop as part of the process of developing a master plan for making Old North St. Louis more walkable and bikeable.  See the flyer below for more details.

As noted above, you can get more information online at http://trailnet.org/oldnorth.php.

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Busy Times in Old North -Celebrating Asphalt, Quality of Life, Streetballers, and the North City Farmers’ Market

This past week was so full of meetings and events that there wasn’t much time left for blog updates.  The following photos present just a few images of the activities of this action-packed week:

Paving of N. 14th Street Begins

Further evidence that the Crown Square redevelopment is nearing its completion: the first layer of asphalt has been poured on the 2600 block of N. 14th Street was cause for great celebration.

Old North St. Louis Quality of Life Meeting

Cinema St. Louis Screening of Streetballers at Old North’s Gallery

The partnership of Cinema St. Louis and Old North St. Louis Restoration Group brought the award-winning film, Streetballers, to the ONSLRG gallery on Friday night. The movie was filmed in St. Louis with local actors (including Old North resident John Bratkowski, on the screen in the photo above).

Writer-Director-Actor Matt Krentz was on hand to discuss the film and take questions from the audience. Also on hand were other actors from the film, John Bratkowski (2nd from right) and Norman McGowan (on the right).

More details about the film - and an opportunity to support independent film-making and the local film industry by purchasing a copy of the DVD - can be found on the Streetballers website. 

Thanks also to Cinema St. Louis (especially Cliff Froehlich, Chris Clark, and Brian Spath) and the Kresge Foundation for making this partnership possible.  The next film in our gallery will be the documentary, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, scheduled for Friday, June 25.

Preparations for the opening of the 4th Season of the North City Farmers’ Market

Earlier today volunteers fanned out to go door-to-door throughout the neighborhood to deliver door-hangers about the North City Farmers’ Market and the Eat.Right.Now! parade.  The market opens next Saturday (June 5) at 9 a.m. and will run until 1 p.m. (only on opening day) and will return every Saturday from 9-noon through October 16.  The parade will start at Blair and Salisbury in Hyde Park and will take a route that goes through the St. Louis Place neighborhood on the way to the North City Farmers’ Market at St. Louis Avenue & N. 14th.  The market will be in operation during the parade, so if you can’t join the parade, you can go straight to the market.

Visit the new and improved website for the North City Farmers’ Market to keep up with all of the news and developments with the 4th season of the market. 

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Weekends are Made for Community-Building in Old North

A few years ago the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described Old North St. Louis Restoration Group as a “super-charged community organization.”  If that was the case in 2006, then the activities of recent weekends would suggest that the community has become even more “super-charged” over the past couple of years.

The highlight of this past weekend was a gathering of neighborhood residents and outside friends who assembled for an update on the plans for the Old North Grocery Co-op, which is scheduled to open in late June.  But this meeting wasn’t a simple presentation on the progress to date; the occasion provided an opportunity for the co-op’s planning committee to invite others to join in the work of the various task groups that are working on preparing the building for opening, identifying products to offer, refining the membership structure, and crafting an outreach strategy.

The product selection work group had a lively discussion about the food and non-food items neighbors would like to see in the grocery co-op.

Stefene and Lucas report back to the whole group about the ideas from the outreach work group.

ONSLRG Board President Tino Ochoa reviewed some of the next steps necessary to get us to opening day in June.

The Old North Grocery Co-op Planning Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. to review the recommendations and status reports from the different work groups.  The Building Prep work group will gather at the co-op building (2718 N. 13th) this coming Saturday, April 24th at 10 a.m. for another work day in the building (and anybody willing to pitch in would be welcome!); the Product Selection work group will meet on Thursday the 22nd in the 13th Street garden; the Outreach task group will meet on Monday, April 26th at 6 p.m. at the ONSLRG office; and the Membership Structure task group will meet this evening, Tuesday, April 20th at 7 p.m.  All task groups are open to anyone who wants to participate in making the Old North Grocery Co-op a great amenity for all residents of Old North and other nearby neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, a lot of hard work has gone into sprucing up the green spaces and public areas of Old North.  On Saturday, April 10, residents and volunteers from outside the neighborhood fanned out to clean up the empty lots, alleys, community gardens, and streets of the neighborhood as part of the annual Operation Brightside blitz day.

Volunteers gathered at the Hebert Garden to get their work assignments.

Tom Bratkowski shows off some of the 10 trees from Forest ReLeaf that were planted in the Hebert garden by Maryville students.

Some of the volunteers were from St. Louis University

Other volunteers came from Washington University.

Susan Tschetter and crew cleaned up an alley behind North Market.

Between the continuing work on the Old North Grocery Co-op, the North City Farmers’ Market (which opens its 4th season on Sat., June 5), and the annual Old North St. Louis House & Community Tour on Saturday, May 8, there will be plenty more opportunities to get involved with the community’s ongoing revitalization efforts.  Give us a call at 314-241-5031 to learn more.

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Informational Meeting about Old North Grocery Co-op Scheduled for Sat., April 17

The image above is from a flyer prepared for the April 17 community meeting.

On Saturday, April 17 at 9 a.m., ONSLRG will host an informational meeting about plans for the Old North Grocery Co-op for residents of Old North St. Louis and surrounding neighborhoods, and anyone else interested in helping with this new initiative.  Members of the grocery co-op’s planning committee will share what they’ve been working on and invite any other interested parties to join in the necessary work to get the store open for business by the end of June.  So, if you have ideas to share or just want to get more information, please join us on April 17.

Click here for a PDF-version of the flyer for the meeting - and feel free to pass the word along to anyone else interested in this community-based approach to improving the neighborhood’s access to healthy and affordable foods and other locally-produced goods.

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ONSLRG’s Annual Meeting & Pot-Luck Supper Next Monday, Feb. 15

Next Monday, February 15, the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group will hold its annual meeting and put-luck supper at the ONSLRG office and gallery.  If you’re a member of ONSLRG or just a friend who cares about Old North and want to show your support for the community-based, not-for-profit organization that serves the neighborhood, come on out and join us for a review of the highlights of 2009 and preview of plans for the rest of 2010.  And if you’re not yet a member, you can join now by clicking right here.

Click here to download a PDF of the flyer for this event so that you can print and share with your friends or neighbors.

Above: ONSLRG Board President Tino Ochoa discussed some of the plans for 2009 at last year’s annual meeting.

Above:  a highlight of this annual event is the opportunity to taste some of your neighbors’ favorite recipes.

If you have any questions, just give us a call at the ONSLRG office (314-241-5031) or send an email to info@onsl.org.

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A Neighborhood that Cares about Affordable Housing & Design

Old North St. Louis Restoration Group has always maintained a commitment to the ideal that current and prospective residents, from across the economic spectrum, should be able to find high quality housing opportunities appropriate and affordable for their individual circumstances.  With that said, we were excited to learn that Habitat for Humanity was interested in adding some of their homes to our efforts to ensure that the market in ONSL includes high quality, affordable ownership opportunities.  Last week ONSLRG hosted a community meeting to allow neighborhood residents to hear from Habitat for Humanity staff about their plans to build 17 new, energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly homes in Old North this year.

The large turnout and lively discussion demonstrated that Old North residents are passionate about design related issues.  A lot of conversation focused on whether the contemporary design of the new homes would blend well with the historic character of the neighborhood.  Most historic neighborhoods that have been around for nearly a couple hundred years, however, include a range of housing styles that reflect the diversity of the population and the evolving tastes and construction methods.  While Old North is well known for its red brick, Victorian-era townhouses, the neighborhood is also home to buildings with facades of other materials and colors, as well as variation in size and setback.

It’s worth noting that Habitat’s staff and architects took the time to come up with designs that represent a significant departure from previous homes they’ve built in St. Louis - and with features that reflect characteristics of other homes in Old North, including the neighborhood’s sampling of flounder houses and one-story homes, especially in the northwest part of the neighborhood.

The rendering above shows one of the two-story flounder-style models adjacent to one of the one-story models.

The plan at the moment is for some of the preliminary development work to get started as early as the next month with volunteer crews to be on site for build days in two different waves, one from April through June, and the second from July through September.  The homes are to be built on the 1900 blocks of Hebert and Sullivan, and the 1400 block of Dodier (between Blair and 19th), as shown below.  As the site plan indicates, Habitat’s plan has attracted the interest of EcoUrban, another private developer with a track record for high quality, award-winning green buildings.

For information about how to get on the list for homeownership or to volunteer to help build these homes, contact Habitat for Humanity at 314-371-0400.  To offer your thoughts about how this development fits into the overall redevelopment of Old North St. Louis or for other general neighborhood questions, contact ONSLRG at 314-241-5031 or by email at info@onsl.org.

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