{"id":1652,"date":"2004-10-25T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2018-07-31T07:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:24:48","slug":"1652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/25\/1652\/","title":{"rendered":"Citywide Controversial Redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a story in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/9616B872857E8AA986256F3600112575?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Demolition+gets+under+way+on+108-year-old+building\" target=\"_new\">Demolition gets under way on 108-year-old building<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Demolition of the Century Building downtown began this week, a major first step in the controversial redevelopment of the 1884 Old Post Office.<\/p>\n<p><b>The first signs are evident. Piles of rubble lay on the sidewalk &#8211; the remains of what was a corner of the 108-year-old building.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;ve been a resident of the St. Louis area for well nigh eleven contiguous years now, and that description&#8211;rubble on the sidewalk and whatnot&#8211;sounds like how much of downtown St. Louis has looked for as long as I remember.  Year after year, the same buildings with scaffolding, safety nets, or closed sidewalks to prevent the unused, crumbling buildings from killing passersby.<\/p>\n<p>First signs of redevelopment?  That&#8217;s a good and optimistic way of thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch entitled &#8220;Demolition gets under way on 108-year-old building&#8220;: Demolition of the Century Building downtown began this week, a major first step in the controversial redevelopment of the 1884 Old Post Office. The first signs are evident. Piles of rubble lay on the sidewalk &#8211; the remains of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20877,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/20877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}