Bye bye Biondi

[TheChosenOne]

32 minutes ago, Pistol said:

This reignited thread has been a great read, from Mill Creek Valley to tanning beds. Another note in Biondi's complicated legacy: https://nextstl.com/2016/07/pevely-dairy-site-four-one-half-years-since-demolition-slu/

So odd. It would be interesting to drive around the area and see all of the somewhat random lots SLU owns in the area and the purpose they serve (like the lot at the corner of Chouteau and Compton which appears to be a poorly maintained field with apparatuses for field events). The article references the hills of debris that sat for more than a year, wasn't that hill of debris positioned right at the boundary of the property and a building who's owner refused to sell to Biondi? At least he is gone and without his tanning bed.

Back in early 2012, then Saint Louis University President Father Lawrence Biondi told the city’s Planning Commission that if the university weren’t allowed to demolish the National Register of Historic Places registered Pevely Dairy complex, “we would have to shut down our medical school and find property in west county”. In response to a question about the project, he stated that financing for a new $75M ambulatory medical center was in place, and groundbreaking could occur in March 2012.

 

[Bobby Metzinger]

1 hour ago, TheChosenOne said:

 

Back in early 2012, then Saint Louis University President Father Lawrence Biondi told the city’s Planning Commission that if the university weren’t allowed to demolish the National Register of Historic Places registered Pevely Dairy complex, “we would have to shut down our medical school and find property in west county”. In response to a question about the project, he stated that financing for a new $75M ambulatory medical center was in place, and groundbreaking could occur in March 2012.

 

That's called getting $hit done.

[hsmith19]

24 minutes ago, Bobby Metzinger said:

That's called getting $hit done.

Shirley, you jest. The only $p*t that got done was bulldozing the smokestack. The rest of the complex continues to sit there falling apart. Not a thing has been built on that site four years later.

[Bobby Metzinger]

15 minutes ago, hsmith19 said:

Shirley, you jest. The only $p*t that got done was bulldozing the smokestack. The rest of the complex continues to sit there falling apart. Not a thing has been built on that site four years later.

I am, and stop calling me Shirley.