Pruitt-Igoe

When I talked to Elaine Gregory McCluskey recently at her office at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and explained I was working on a story about engineering…

Going into the inner city and taking a hike through the abandoned Pruitt-Igoe public housing site could be regarded as a lark, but once the hike is…

Developer Paul McKee unveiled plans Wednesday for an urgent care facility on the north side of St. Louis, but questions at the press event turned to the…

Updated at 6:14 a.m. Nov. 3 with statement from Sen. Claire McCaskill. A top Army official says that Cold War chemical weapons testing in St. Louis did…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 27, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Responding to a new study of a previously reported issue, Missouri’s…

Over the past four decades Richard Baron has made a name for himself as a pioneering developer of blighted urban neighborhoods. Baron’s firm, McCormack…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, reprinted with permission from MinnPost.com, April 18, 2012 - A journey to St. Louis, Mo., can teach…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 13, 2012 - With developer Paul McKee now adding a two-year option on the former Pruitt-Igoe…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 12, 2012 - Exactly 40 years after the first building of St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe housing projects…

This article first appeared n the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 10, 2012 - St. Louisans once looked at Spanish Lake as a symbol for what was great about living…