Saying he wants to be a good neighbor, Side Project Brewing owner Cory King at the city council meeting on Tuesday, pulled his request to rezone an empty lot on Hazel Avenue that he had planned to use as a parking lot for the brewery on Manchester Road. King said there might be a possibility […]
This is an end-of-summer rerun. I first ran this one about four years ago. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Scheidt Hardware building is one of our most important commercial buildings. Read this and you’ll know as much as I do about it. Maplewood History: A Couple of Surprising Discoveries About the […]
The Maplewood Planning and Zoning Commission decided on Wednesday, with a 5-1 vote, against the rezoning of an empty lot on Hazel Avenue — from residential to commercial — to allow Side Project Brewing to turn it into a parking lot for 15 cars for the brewery. Side Project owner Cory King explained that the […]
In May Maplewood’s design and review board advised against a rehabber’s plan to reduce the size of the front porch on a house on Elm Avenue. The rehabber said the back door was more important than the front so the front porch size could be basically a large step up to the door, with a […]
St. Louis Magazine interviews the owners of Revel Kitchen in Maplewood, and Motor Town Pizza in Richmond Heights. Red Lobster has closed restaurants nationwide, Maplewood’s is one. Fast Company — Red Lobster closing restaurants KMOV — Red Lobster closing its Maplewood location KSDK — ‘I don’t have anymore kids’: Mother who had 2 sons killed […]
Shots fired in the 2600 block of Bellevue Avenue activated the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District’s cell phone-based “Raptor Alert System” at approximately 1:45pm, according to information from MRH Director of Operations Michael Dittrich. Maplewood Police had a suspect in custody in less than 15 minutes, so no alert was put into effect in the […]
Maplewood Planning and Zoning on September 4 at 6pm in the city council chambers will hear residents’ comments and vote on rezoning an empty lot at 7443 Hazel Avenue from single family residential to community business district. The results of the vote will go as a recommendation to city council, which will consider the same […]
IS THE MAPLEWOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT’S GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? By Rob Birenbaum Is the proverbial glass that represents downtown Maplewood’s business climate half empty or half full? It would be disingenuous to say that there haven’t been some spills lately, but we had avoided issues like these for a long time while they […]
A single-family home at 7201 Southwest Avenue, in St. Louis city, just outside of Maplewood, which was demolished in the beginning of this year, is being replaced with a duplex. The original home was built in 1892, according to Redfin real estate site. Flip Squad Monopoly LLC, with a mailing address in Pico Rivera, California, […]
I remember reading somewhere, perhaps in the comments of one of my posts, someone wrote that he would wait in the Maplewood White Castle for the streetcar. I’ve been curious ever since about just where was the White Castle before it occupied its current location at Manchester and Big Bend. A recent discovery on Ebay […]
Following the Aug. 13 council meeting, Community Development Director Laura Miller discovered that there was both audio and visual failures with the YouTube recording of the meeting, so there will be no usable video of the meeting, according to City Manager Amber Withycombe. Withycombe said it’s ironic because in that meeting the council approved a […]
Twenty years ago, the city of Maplewood successfully ended a multi-year dispute with a local property owner—a dispute that started when a large derelict building went on the market in 1999 and the city subsequently denied the new owner’s request for a demolition permit. The owner took the city to court over their right to […]
The wine shop and bar, Chateau Maplewood, 7326 Manchester Road, closed its door for good on Wednesday, posting on Instagram that wine would be sold at 50% off later that day. On Thursday a second sign said all the 50% off wine had been sold, and the remainder would be sold in an auction next […]
A Message from the Mid County Chamber of Commerce By: Executive Director, Jeannine Beck Is the Maplewood business community going to be okay? Yes! In light of the recent string of businesses that announced closings, we feel compelled to reassure the community that downtown Maplewood remains a vibrant business hub for dining, shopping and entertainment. […]
The owner and founder of Speakeasy Therapies and Fitness, Celia Montes, which opened and closed (recently) on Sutton Boulevard, said the business closed in Maplewood because she lost her staff, and subsequently had to dissolve the business. Montes said that upon moving the business from Kirkwood to Maplewood her staff decided that they were going […]
This is a good example of the sort of images that I have looked for decades to find. It is a gold nugget in the history stream of our community. The creme de la creme of the many thousands of images I have looked through. I found this by accident. Reader Lew alerted me to […]
Barry Williams reports from Brentwood that “very expensive” signal lights, bells, gates, and a cantilevered structure were installed where the Union Pacific Railroad’s Lake Branch crosses Brentwood Boulevard in Brentwood, and all for a short freight train that serves a single customer in Rock Hill — the Forest Products Supply Co. — once a day. […]
The incoming manager for St. Mary Magdalen, Rebecca Goetz, is applying for a new liquor license for Immaculate Conception Parish Hall. Tuesday night at the city council meeting she said the license is necessary for the facility to continue leasing the space to various groups that bring in their own liquor for events such as […]
…is a brand new shiny red super stock Dodge. So go the lyrics to The Little Old Lady From Pasadena who had a pretty little flowerbed of white gardenias. (now insert my leadoff line). TLOLFP was a hit for Jan and Dean reaching number three on the Billboard chart in 1964. I turned fifteen that […]
Stories of Black residential displacement in St. Louis County are not hard to come by. Meacham Park. Brentwood Promenade. Downtown Clayton. One of these stories—the one still playing out here in Maplewood—is a little harder to place a label on, but in the end, its outcome may be no less drastic. Today, the U.S. Census […]
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