St. Louis City Hall Orders Anti-Eminent Domain Abuse Mural to be Removed June 26, 2007
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This painted mural is on the south-facing side of the four-family flat on 1806-8 South 13th Street, in the Soulard Neighborhood. It faces the I-44/I-55 junction, and can be seen easily by the many vehicles per day that uses that interchange, and by cars on Gravois and Tucker, which are heavily traveled city boulevards in the area.
Today, a planning and zoning committee attached to St. Louis City Hall, the Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority, ordered to mural removed. Lawyers for MEDAC (Missouri Eminent Domain Abuse Coalition) promise to take the matter to court to keep the mural up.
It is very likely the the case that this is the same LCRA that allowed homeowners on Loughborough Avenue and South Grand Avenue south of Carondelet Park to be run out of their houses in order to create the Loughborough Commons Strip Mall. Therefore, this commission might not like this mural for its message, not for its size.
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