As promised: Part One of our series on how precisely the Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association...well...improves Shaw.  One of the most fundamental ways SNIA serves the neighborhood is through communication.  Once again, to paraphrase Board Member Sue Raney, we talk about both positive and negative issues and events, as they relate to the neighborhood.  It's a way to stay connected [...]

It's a question people ask, especially when they first move to the neighborhood.  Or, just as likely, a non-resident friend of yours has asked the question after you tell them the first or third Monday of the month won't work to have dinner.  Or watch football.  Or quilt.  It is, after all, your free time. SNIA, [...]

While, unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to attend last weekend's event, hosted by NextSTL, I know of several neighbors who did, and could follow along via Twitter.  The event link recaps much of the coverage and discussion.  And, it's worth digesting. But, rather than use this post to take a particular stance on how [...]

Steve Patterson, author of Urban Review STL, addressed the need for Thurman Avenue to become a through street, once again. We're sure that many in the neighborhood agree, and in fact, we know that Alderman Conway has been approached by the owner of the building that houses Sasha's on Shaw.  What's holding it back?    According to Conway, [...]

This afternoon, the South Grand Community Improvement District (CID) announced the Grand Opening of the new parking lot, 10AM Thursday March 24th, at 3500 Hartford, just off South Grand. According to a statement from the Rachel Witt, the CID's Executive Director, South Grand will be one of the few business districts in the city of St. [...]

Our thoughts go out to Mayor Francis G. Slay and his family.  From STLToday.

Five neighborhoods.  Two days.  A plethora of homes.  The annual Grand South Grand House Tour takes place 11am-5pm April 16th and 17th, 2016 starting at the South Grand Entrance of Tower Grove Park - across from Messiah Lutheran Church. What's missing?  You!  The Grand South Grand House tour takes five neighborhoods to make it a [...]