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Dutchtown Main Streets and St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) are excited to announce $80,000 in new funding for façade improvements for Dutchtown businesses! These façade grants help to enhance the appearance of our neighborhood storefronts, attract customers, and strengthen our key commercial corridors in Greater Dutchtown.

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Dutchtown Main Streets and St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) are excited to announce $80,000 in new funding for façade improvements for Dutchtown businesses! These façade grants help to enhance the appearance of our neighborhood storefronts, attract customers, and strengthen our key commercial corridors in Greater Dutchtown.

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Dutchtown Main Streets is proud to work alongside Lutheran Development Group and many community partners to expand affordable housing options in our neighborhood, including deeply affordable units for neighbors earning as little as 30% of the area median income. We’re especially excited to share that building permits have now been issued for the Marquette Homes project, bringing us one big step closer to adding more high-quality, affordable housing right in the heart of Dutchtown!

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Dutchtown Main Streets is proud to work alongside Lutheran Development Group and many community partners to expand affordable housing options in our neighborhood, including deeply affordable units for neighbors earning as little as 30% of the area median income. We’re especially excited to share that building permits have now been issued for the Marquette Homes project, bringing us one big step closer to adding more high-quality, affordable housing right in the heart of Dutchtown!

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Lutheran Development Group has announced that they will begin collecting data for a potential new National Historic District in southeastern Dutchtown and Mount Pleasant. Survey workers will venture out across the neighborhood beginning on January 27th, kicking off the registration process in earnest.

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Lutheran Development Group has announced that they will begin collecting data for a potential new National Historic District in southeastern Dutchtown and Mount Pleasant. Survey workers will venture out across the neighborhood beginning on January 27th, kicking off the registration process in earnest.

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Bi-State Development’s current plans for the north-south Green Line, the next MetroLink extension, do not extend light rail into the heart of the South Side here in Dutchtown. Dutchtown Main Streets has submitted a letter to Bi-State CEO Taulby Roach explaining why locating the southern terminus at the intersection of Chippewa, Jefferson, and Broadway is short-sighted.

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Bi-State Development’s current plans for the north-south Green Line, the next MetroLink extension, do not extend light rail into the heart of the South Side here in Dutchtown. Dutchtown Main Streets has submitted a letter to Bi-State CEO Taulby Roach explaining why locating the southern terminus at the intersection of Chippewa, Jefferson, and Broadway is short-sighted.

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Dutchtown was recently invited to feature in “Experience the Best of St. Louis: A Bucket List for Every Explorer,” an article for national real estate website Redfin. We were, of course, more than happy to share what makes Dutchtown special with new and future St. Louis residents!

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Dutchtown was recently invited to feature in “Experience the Best of St. Louis: A Bucket List for Every Explorer,” an article for national real estate website Redfin. We were, of course, more than happy to share what makes Dutchtown special with new and future St. Louis residents!

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2024 is shaping up to be an incredible and pivotal year for our vibrant neighborhood! Dutchtown Main Streets is excited to bring you this 2024 outlook guide to get you hyped for all the things to come! New businesses, new basketball courts, new services for our neighbors and entrepreneurs—in 2024, we look forward to Dutchtown neighbors and businesses thriving together!

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2024 is shaping up to be an incredible and pivotal year for our vibrant neighborhood! Dutchtown Main Streets is excited to bring you this 2024 outlook guide to get you hyped for all the things to come! New businesses, new basketball courts, new services for our neighbors and entrepreneurs—in 2024, we look forward to Dutchtown neighbors and businesses thriving together!

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Marquette Park is the crown jewel of Dutchtown, but the story of what was there before is… complicated.

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Marquette Park is the crown jewel of Dutchtown, but the story of what was there before is… complicated.

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Adelheld (Heidi) Lange was born in 1878 at the stately house at Meramec and Iowa.

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Adelheld (Heidi) Lange was born in 1878 at the stately house at Meramec and Iowa.

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Dutchtown Summer Vibes is back! Join us in Downtown Dutchtown on Saturday, July 9th for live music, food and drink, shopping, kids’ activities, community resources, and more!

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Dutchtown Summer Vibes is back! Join us in Downtown Dutchtown on Saturday, July 9th for live music, food and drink, shopping, kids’ activities, community resources, and more!

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We were proud to see Dutchtown persevere and move forward through the pandemic in 2020. Hand in hand with our neighbors, DT2 · Downtown Dutchtown made great strides in organizing volunteers, welcoming new businesses, securing improvements at Marquette Park, and much more. You can read about our 2020 here.

Read the rest of “Dutchtown Main Streets’ 2021 Annual Report” 

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We were proud to see Dutchtown persevere and move forward through the pandemic in 2020. Hand in hand with our neighbors, DT2 · Downtown Dutchtown made great strides in organizing volunteers, welcoming new businesses, securing improvements at Marquette Park, and much more. You can read about our 2020 here.

Read the rest of “Dutchtown Main Streets’ 2021 Annual Report” 

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