Rookie developer, Jeff McCurdy, with Above All Development is gearing up to break ground the first week in February on his first project, which just so happens to be down the street from another new development that Above All Development is heading, Aventura at Forest Park. This project is at the corner of Tower Grove […]
Our social media contest begins TODAY! CONTEST RULES: Each time the contest runs, we will post a different photo each time. The photo will be of part of an element within the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. Guesses must be DIRECTLY MESSAGED to us on our Facebook page by Wednesday at midnight. If you do not have […]
David Githinji is Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corporation’s newest Community Development Intern. David comes to us all the way from rural Kenya. While in Kenya, he received his bachelor of arts in economics and social work, as well as his master of business administration with a specialty in strategic management. In 2010, he moved […]
Construction has begun as the Missouri Department of Transportation, in partnership with Washington University Medical Center and BJC Healthcare, has teamed up with contractor Fred Weber Inc. to construct an interchange at Interstate 64 and Tower Grove Avenue which will improve traffic around Kingshighway and the medical campus. The $17.9 million project, when completed, will […]
Are you looking to start or expand your business and locate in Forest Park Southeast? The next step may be a microenterprise loan through Choices Federal Credit Union, a neighborhood credit union in FPSE. There has been such a high level of interest in the FPSE neighborhood to start and expand businesses within the neighborhood; […]
Throughout the year, Washington University Medical Center (WUMC) interfaces with agencies and stakeholders in the community to identify families in the Forest Park Southeast and Botanical Heights neighborhoods that have had an extremely discouraging year. Since 1997, WUMC has matched these families in need with a department from the Washington University School of Medicine and […]
In the summer of 2012, WUMC’s Community Development Manager’s Nathan Bishop and Brooks Goedeker were meeting with NSI Director, Jim Whyte to discuss the latest safety and security efforts in the Central West End. Whyte mentioned that he was having a lot of success following the cases through the court system and presenting impact statements […]
An initiative that has been in the works for the last two years will be fully implemented by this spring. Washington University Medical Center and the Central West End Neighborhood Security Initiative (NSI) are teaming up to install 91 cameras throughout the Central West End. Prior to WUMC’s contribution, the cameras were expected to be […]
It’s been a mild winter so far, with temperatures in the 70’s in December but with St. Louis being known for it’s unpredictable weather, the temperatures will surely be dropping soon so don’t wait until it’s too late to get the help you need to heat your home this winter. The following organizations offer energy […]
Chris Zuck, Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corporation’s newest Community Development Intern, graduated from Mizzou with his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. Chris is currently in Saint Louis University’s master of science in engineering program and is expected to graduate this summer or next fall. Chris was born in Rochester, Minnesota but has also lived […]
