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Resurrected Hotel Offers Hope to the City's Downtrodden PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 28 May 2000 18:00
In 1995, the Mark Twain Hotel at Ninth and Pine streets was a derelict building with more fire and water damage than it had fat, leathery cockroaches.  The city wanted to shut down the flophouse and evict its 90 residents.  That's when Harris, 41, a real estate developer and Yale graduate, moved in.  Read more here.
 

RHCDA is Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance, a nonprofit organization that creates and supports the alliances that make smart, sustainable neighborhood revitalization possible in the St. Louis region.

"Fighting the drug crime here was met with moderate success until RHCDA partnered with us to buy out 93 units of problem properties; now the drug activity has been eradicated...it was a good place to live, now Forest Park Southeast is a great place to live." 

- Phil Minden, Resident, Forest Park Southeast Neighborhood