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Bellingham Bill
2014 Aug 15, 2:52pm
Bellingham Bill
2014 Aug 15, 2:52pm
shows employment is about back to the 2002-2003 recession levels in St Louis. Place needs around 80,000 more jobs to reach the better times of the late 1990s boom.
I've already posted the deal with St Louis-area mfg:
brutal
it's about 20 miles and 60 years but it's where St Louis decided to house their minority population in the 1950s, in substandard apartment blocks.
http://goo.gl/C0r7Yp
is the QuikTrip near the shooting location. Like the Trayvon Martin neighborhood, I was struck by how shitty the layout of the neighborhood is.
Kunstler could easily make it Eyesore of the Month, as the street and neighborhood is completely designed for cars, not people -- the QuikTrip that was burned down (same one that the shot kid liberated $50 worth of cigarillos from I assume) with its gas station frontage on one side, and the car wash on the other.
The density is just abhorrent. I'm not saying a pedestrian-hostile street scape is why we have so many criminals, but it certainly doesn't help the situation.
We really need to bulldoze so much and start over.
is a picture closer to the shooting location. What an economic wastleland!