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St. Louis officials installed 50 tiny homes this past fall in the former St. Louis RV Park lot. Most have a nearly identical build with a door, window, heater, desk and bed.
Three weeks ago, Shannon Bounds was sleeping in an abandoned warehouse that was partially burned down. Now she and her partner stay in one of the 50 new tiny homes assembled in a former RV park just northwest of downtown St. Louis.
“There s two beds in there for me and my fiance, and then there s a desk and then we got a TV,” she said. “It s kind of like a little cozy home.”
Residents of homeless camp in downtown St. Louis forced to move
They ve moved from a parking lot next to a building to a parking lot out in the open Author: Alex Fees (KSDK) Updated: 4:17 PM CST January 11, 2021
ST. LOUIS Monday was moving day for a group of as many as 19 homeless people living in tents north of The Dome at America’s Center. But they did not go far, moving from one parking lot to another.
St. Louis city officials said they are not moving the camp. Still, city officials said they’ve provided outreach to the so-called “McGuire Camp” several times a week, including food, water, sanitation and trash services.
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The McGuire Moving & Storage building is owned by developer Paul McKee’s NorthSide Regeneration, along with more than a dozen adjacent parcels, according to city property records. Late last week, a notice to vacate appeared on the side of the brick building, informing encampment residents to leave the private property by Monday morning.
Updated at 3:45 p.m., Jan. 11, with additional information on encampment eviction and comments from city officials
Residents at a St. Louis tent encampment hurriedly packed their belongings into trash bags on Monday morning, in anticipation of a scheduled eviction.
But the trash trucks and law enforcement did not arrive, and it was unclear when they would.
The Olde Towne Fenton (OTF) Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, or NSDAR, awarded its Community Service Award this year to Josh McGuire, president of operations at McGuire Moving & Storage at 8645 S. Broadway in St. Louis for his role in advancing Wreaths Across America, and specifically for getting the wreaths across America.
Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit that raises money and uses volunteers to lay wreaths on as many graves of veterans as possible around the holidays. More than 14,000 wreaths will be laid this weekend at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.
As part of the Wreaths Across America program, each December for the past eight years, McGuire has volunteered his time and the resources of his trucking firm transporting truckloads of fresh, balsam fir wreaths picked up in the state of Maine and transported to St. Louis in order to honor those heroes laid to rest at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. The company also serves a cri