Nineteen year ago I started this blog as a distraction from my father’s heart attack and slow recovery. It was late 2004 and social media & video streaming apps didn’t exist yet — or at least not widely available to the general public. Blogs were the newest means of …
The new NGA West campus , Jefferson & Cass, has been under construction for a few years now. Next NGA West is a large-scale construction project that will build a new facility for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St. Louis, Missouri.This $1.7B project is managed by the U.S. Army …
Book publisher Island Press always impresses me with thoughtful new books written by people working to solve current problems — the subjects are important ones for urbanists and policy makers to be familiar and actively discussing. These four books are presented in the order I received them. ‘Justice and …
This post is about two indirectly related topics: the new Siteman Cancer Center building under construction on the Washington University School of Medicine/BJC campus and an update on my stage 4 kidney cancer. Let’s deal with the latter first. You may have noticed I’ve not posted in three months, …
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Today I launched a new web site devoted to offering bike education courses in St. Louis: BikeClass.com. Classes and private instruction will begin in July. Check the site for updates or email me if you’d like to be notified when a class schedule has been determined.
– Steve
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Today I launched a new web site devoted to offering bike education courses in St. Louis: BikeClass.com. Classes and private instruction will begin in July. Check the site for updates or email me if you’d like to be notified when a class schedule has been determined.
– Steve
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It amazes me that some lifetime St. Louis area residents still haven’t discovered the Clifton Heights neighborhood. I love to take visitors through the area as well, after seeing blocks of solid red brick housing in a mostly grid pattern the curvy streets and topography of Clifton Heights is an unexpected change.
I’ve sold two houses in the Clifton Heights neighborhood in the last few years. One just off the lake but still with a good view and another a couple of blocks away. I was back in Clifton Heights on Thursday showing a house to a client. I couldn’t help but grin as I arrived. I love Clifton Heights.
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Driving home tonight I noticed that Ted Drewes is open. Yeah!
I try not to go too often but boy is it hard to resist. Before I moved to Dutchtown I lived only a couple of blocks from Crown Candy Kitchen. Coincidence or destiny?
– Steve
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Tonight was the monthly First Friday Gallery & Design walk in downtown St. Louis. We have no Final Four or other major event to populate the sidewalks but the streets didn’t lack for activity. No major sporting event yet sidewalks were teaming with people.
OK, not Times Square levels but a lot more than you’d see in Clayton on a Friday night.
As the sun was setting the buildings were bathed in great lighting, including the Syndicate-Trust building on 10th & Olive.
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