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Harvard students look for ways to improve MLK Drive in St. Louis as model for rest of nation
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 9-28-15 | Samantha Liss 41

Posted on 09/28/2015 3:14:30 PM PDT by TroutStalker

ST. LOUIS • For 17 years, Karen Bryant has watched her beloved neighborhood along Martin Luther King Drive deteriorate.

Bryant, who does alterations from a storefront along King, can recite a long list of flourishing businesses that used to line the street. They all left. Now she’s left sandwiched between two vacant buildings.

Despite her location on a desolate and run-down area of Martin Luther King, she’s determined to stay. She and her husband even moved in above her shop to ward off thieves who have stolen her air conditioning unit and removed copper pipes from her store, which is full of clothes needing alterations.

A similar story has unraveled across the country along streets named for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., according to Melvin White, of St. Louis nonprofit Beloved Streets of America. Now a team of Harvard graduate students is working with White to turn St. Louis into a template on how to revitalize streets honoring the civil rights champion.

White began the nonprofit Beloved Streets of America to find ways to redevelop America’s Martin Luther King Drives, starting with St. Louis.

“I want it to be a beautiful and vibrant place,” White said of the neighborhood. In its current states, “it’s kind of a slap in the face” to King, he added.

On Saturday afternoon, a group of Harvard graduate students studying urban planning and architectural design arrived in St. Louis ready to interview community members and gather input on redevelopment ideas. Later this week, the group will travel to Washington, D.C., to examine the issues there. At the end of the 15-week course, the students will present to White ideas on ways the street can be improved.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: harvard; mlkdrive; saintlouis; stlouis; students
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To: TroutStalker

I think Eli Roth nailed these sort of college students in his movie “The Green Inferno.” (It’s a horror movie not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, but it sure does portray liberals like they really are.)


41 posted on 09/28/2015 5:23:32 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: COBOL2Java

My hearing must be going...I could barely understand 20% of his schtick.


42 posted on 09/28/2015 5:43:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: TroutStalker

Why don’t these pukes get on the red line to Mattapan and start there.


43 posted on 09/28/2015 5:50:43 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
My hearing must be going...I could barely understand 20% of his schtick.

I'll transcribe the key part for you:

"I'm lost, I'm on Martin Luther King"

"RUN!"

"RUN!"

"RUN!"


44 posted on 09/28/2015 5:53:30 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: fwdude

Harvard people are pretty stupid.


45 posted on 09/28/2015 5:56:34 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: ex91B10

I just finished reading a book on Mattapan.

“The Death of an American Jewish Community”-Levine/Harmon

An overnight ghetto.

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46 posted on 09/28/2015 5:58:48 PM PDT by Mears
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To: BatGuano; wardaddy

Reverend King would crap his pants to see the deeds committed by his black brothers.


Please people on FR...quite being so silly...He would be all up in that shit....Why do people think he would be any different than the people he surrounded himself with...white bitches not included.


47 posted on 09/28/2015 5:59:32 PM PDT by chasio649 (The GOPe can never seem to remember who brought them to the dance)
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To: chasio649

You got that right

It’s a white weakness that pervades 99%


48 posted on 09/28/2015 7:07:05 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Lx

ROFL


49 posted on 09/28/2015 7:09:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: TroutStalker
I must be so smart because even without a Harvard education I know the answer to their quest....its MORE MONEY....MONEY...MONEY...MONEY....

its not arresting and incarcerating the criminals there....its not demanding the locals start acting like citizens.

50 posted on 09/28/2015 7:16:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: BBell

I like your “SWP”.....hope you don’t mind if I use it once in a while.


51 posted on 09/28/2015 7:20:12 PM PDT by cherry
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To: fwdude

Step #1 - Change the name of the street!

Cities everywhere have suffered a similar deterioration of an area’s businesses and housing as a result of re-naming streets years ago to MLK, so that’s a common cause.


52 posted on 09/28/2015 7:54:21 PM PDT by octex
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To: BatGuano

MLK blvd in Hot Springs AR is pretty nice.

It’s an anomaly.


53 posted on 09/28/2015 8:32:56 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Our man in washington

Wow.

The Green Inferno added to the Netflix queue. Thanks!


54 posted on 09/28/2015 8:38:14 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: cherry

Go ahead. I was also thinking of SWIP (stupid white impaired people).


55 posted on 09/28/2015 8:40:03 PM PDT by BBell
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To: chasio649; wardaddy

“Please people on FR...quite being so silly..”

A lot of freepers get their ideas about MLK from Hannity and Beck, and those two dimwits constantly spout nonsense about King that has little relation to the real man.

It’s a decidedly fact-optional universe that they inhabit. Evidently his two long time advisers, Levison and O’Dell, who were part of Joe Stalin’s international fan club, don’t count against him. JFK decided otherwise and approved wiretaps on King.


56 posted on 09/29/2015 12:23:51 AM PDT by Pelham (It ain't over 'til it's over)
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To: TroutStalker

Translation - “We gots ideas to make things nice for the locals and we need other people’s money so those who enjoy the improvements don’t gots to pays for dem. Since we wants sum college credits fo our ideers, it will be very nice and needs lots of other peeples munies”.


57 posted on 09/29/2015 2:45:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes, the truth to leftists is “racism.”


58 posted on 09/29/2015 6:31:43 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Sorry, I forgot my < /sarc > tag too!

8^)


59 posted on 09/29/2015 8:56:56 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: fwdude
Yes, the truth to leftists is “racism.”

Truth- It's the new HATE SPEECH!

60 posted on 09/29/2015 8:59:52 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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