Gentrification Part 2 – Botanical Heights East of Thurman Avenue

The residential blocks of Botanical Heights (BH) form a tale of two neighborhoods. East of Thurman Avenue from I-44 to Folsom Avenue you have early 2000s homes largely built by suburban developer McBride Homes (Chesterfield, MO). West of Thurman you have many vacant lots, and original housing stock ranging from occupied to abandoned and crumbling. …