Community Health Assessment

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Covering a broad area of north and central St. Louis is the Grande Prairie Area, which is bounded by St. Louis and Grand Avenue, Delmar and Kingshighway Boulevards.
From a beginning as a sparsely settled countryside in the 1860's, the Grande Prairie area experienced a gradual urbanization. This build-up followed a westward trend across Grand Avenue; among many people moving into the area were significant numbers of German and Irish immigrants as well as a few blacks. Prior to 1900, the population of the area was generally white. The nucleus of its present extensive black population began in the Elleardsville section.
Elleardsville (The Ville) is situated just northwest of downtown St. Louis, and covers a roughly nine-by-five-block
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Age-wise, some of these date back to the 1880's and 1890's. A number of former single family dwellings have been converted into rooming houses. Frame houses are found in poorer sections of the area where more demolition has occurred. The Ville suffers from incredibly low real estate value in comparison to St. Louis’ other seventy-eight neighborhoods.
The neighborhood ranks second lowest in the value of single family residences and ninth in the value of its two- and four-family structures, which together represent 95 percent of the neighborhood’s housing options.
Principal commercial streets are Delmar, Kingshighway, Grand and Martin Luther King Drive. Minor commercial strips are on Taylor, Sarah, Vandeventer and St. Louis Avenue. The most active area for stores is centered around the former Sears store on Kingshighway. Elsewhere, generally, commercial uses are in poor physical condition; with many vacant or vandalized. Considerable demolition has occurred and on major streets some older stores have been replaced by drive-ins or service stations. Competition from outlying shopping centers and a lack of adequate parking have taken their toll on neighborhood stores and shops. The major grocery facilities are Schnucks Market, Aldi and Food for Less which are located on major streets and accessible by public transit or motor vehicle.
Local restaurants are: B J Food Market 4300 NORTH MARKET; Billy Burk's Restaurant
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