Vacant Properties

St. Louis homebuyers will soon be able to purchase some city-owned properties at a deep discount.The going rate? One dollar.Beginning this month, the Land…

The City of St. Louis plans to knock down nearly three times as many vacant buildings this fiscal year than it did the year before.It's part of an effort…

For Eric Schwarz, a vacant building is more than a culmination of neglect and decay; it’s a treasure trove.“Some of these materials will never be produced…

As more vacant buildings come down in north St. Louis next year, workers will be taking some of them apart to salvage and resell valuable architectural…

For the record, St. Louis is home to 20,187 vacant properties. More than half are vacant lots, totaling 1,565 acres. Over the past five years, it has cost…

Gravois Park has an unlikely advocate for inclusive development in a 12-year-old girl who wants to see the vacant buildings and lots on her block be…

The parcel next to Eltorean Hawkins’ home looks like his side yard.He’s been mowing the grass and cutting the weeds since he bought his house two years…

Virginia Savage can remember being a nervous fourth grader walking into Marshall Elementary for the first time in the Ville neighborhood in north St.…

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley got behind the controls of a backhoe and started chipping away at the bombed-out looking Glasgow Village…