If you're on Richard Callow's Twitter feed, this is old news to you. It may be old news anyway, but: the preservationists lost the fight to save the San Luis Apartments in the Central West End last night. Apparently the meeting dragged on for six hours. And now the San Luis shall become -- as often is the case in St. Louis -- a parking lot.
Here is more from St. Louis Patina, Vanishing STL, Dotage, and Built Environment in Layman's Terms.
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