Richard Baron

“How do you define development?” questioned Richard Baron, the Chairman and CEO of St. Louis-based for-profit community developer McCormack Baron Salazar,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 13, 2012 - One rainy day in the late fall of 1968, a young black woman named Jean King was…

Jean King and Richard Baron first met in 1968, when the two joined forces to protest conditions and rent hikes in St. Louis public housing.Together, they…

A historic St. Louis School building has a new lease on life as a new development in north city’s 22nd Ward.The Arlington School, designed by pioneering…

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, May 31, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Ever since the housing bubble popped four years ago, politicians and…

If you were listening to NPR's Morning Edition around 6:30 a.m. or again around 8:30 a.m., you might have heard a familiar name - developer Richard Baron,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 24, 2010 - St. Louis urban developer Richard Baron sees positive signs in federal efforts to…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 2, 2009 - Missouri has been at the heart of the nation's story of race from the first chapter.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 26, 2009 - St. Louis urban developer Richard Baron doesn't waste words summarizing what he…