From the new pedestrian street lights to the widened sidewalks, the Manchester streetscape is shaping up nicely and quickly becoming a modern, attractive pedestrian-oriented street. The older style “Cobra” street lights will be removed soon, and the trash cans, bike racks, modern planters, and other street furniture will be all that is left to install.  [...]

WUMCRC teamed up with The Grove CID to highlight some of the salons in the Grove.  The Nappy Kitchen and Kolors Salon, chatted with us about why they decided to open their business in the Grove and what services they offer clients. Kevyn Idoux, an experienced business owner here in the Grove, discusses his salon [...]

On Saturday, May 14th, the premiere professional bicycle racing event in the Midwest will be touring through the streets of Forest Park Southeast. And this second installment of the Tour de Grove will be bigger, better and faster than the year before! With an impressive list of professional racers from around the world already committed [...]

Pete Rothschild, owner of Red Brick Management, has been purchasing and developing buildings from the time he was twenty years old. His property management group has been around for 42 years and they own buildings all over the St. Louis area, including Central West End and the Grove.  WUMCRC sat down with Rothschild to discuss [...]

  Washington University Medical Center (WUMC) continues its commitment to improving the gateways into Forest Park Southeast.  Brooks Goedeker, community development manager for WUMC, has been working with Confluence Design to introduce new planters to the neighborhood.  Confluence Design is a custom design & fabrication studio, which utilizes emerging digital design & traditional fabrication technologies.  [...]

Saturday, May 14th, 2011 the Tour de Grove will be racing though one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in St. Louis-The Grove. The professional bicycling race will feature the fastest male and female cyclists from the United States competing to win a overall purse of $25,000. It is the highest paying, single day race in [...]

The Grove mural project continues with completed designs for the first two murals.  The project is being led by 11 to 14 year old Forest Park Southeast residents at the Hoover Boys & Girls Club.  The project is funded by St. Cronan’s and the Grove Community Improvement District.   Below is a three minute video interview [...]

WUMCRC’s Community Development Manager, Brooks Goedeker and intern, Matt Green have been working with the City of St. Louis and Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) to take the traffic signal boxes within Forest Park Southeast and turn them into something a little more attractive.  Both Goedeker and Green will be presenting the concept and designs [...]