Hopeville

Camp Plum: St. Louis Shuts Down Homeless Riverfront Encampment, Relocates 24 Residents

Last week, the city of St. Louis shut down a homeless riverfront encampment that officials say had become a dangerous environment for the 24 people living there. And the homeless individuals sleeping in tents on 2nd and Plum streets -- at the so-called "Camp Plum" -- have all been relocated to some ... More >>

Robert Boettcher, Homeless Man Once Accused of Murder, Wins University City Photo Award

Robert Boettcher, a 53-year-old homeless man in St. Louis, was recently released from prison after spending nearly two years behind bars on murder charges. He was arrested on May 3, 2011, and after many months in jail, his case was dismissed on February 11, 2013. And now, he has won a University C ... More >>

5 Ideas for Fenton's Vacant Chrysler Site

Last month Daily RFT examined a Facebook campaign that seeks to bring an IKEA to the 295 acres in Fenton that -- until 2009 -- was home to a Chrysler plant. As we confirmed from IKEA, the former site of the automaker (above) is too big for one of its stores. So what might this prime real estate alon ... More >>

Rescuing the Pets and Stray Cats of Hopeville

Even in Hopeville, there were pets. The stray cats who wandered in found homes, of sorts, with the stray human who had set up camp there. "There aren't any feral cats," says Dawn Blaloch, a volunteer with the St. Louis Area Community Cat Coalition. "They're better socialized than my cats. They're t ... More >>

Hopeville's Days Are Officially Numbered: City Sets May 4 as Closure Date

The City of St. Louis announced this morning that the three homeless encampments on the riverfront will close on May 4. The tent city, known to residents as Hopeville, currently serves as home to about 30 people.

The 2011 Unreal News Challenge

Police Not a Problem for OccupySTL; The Homeless on the Other Hand...

Albert Samaha​There is madness in Oakland, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, New York. Flash-and-bang gas canisters... protesters flushed from public squares... mass arrests. But not here. At first, a cynic might think, "Of course! The last thing this city needs is a stone-throwing-police-wi ... More >>

Tim Lane's Hopeville Journal

City Wants Hopeville Gone By December 1

The mayor's office says it wants to save Hopeville residents from the elements.​St. Louis officials today announced that they're pushing ahead with plans hinted at earlier this year to dismantle the homeless camps north of downtown St. Louis. In January the city issued regulations for those living ... More >>

Think You're Hot? Try Living In a Tent Down By the River

Photos: Rory RoundtreeReed and community activist Brian Matthews (right) stand beside Hopeville camp leader, Moe.​As St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed explains, residents of the homeless camp "Hopeville" north of downtown can keep warm in the winter by insulating their tents and sha ... More >>

Robert Boettcher: Homeless Man Accused of Murder Gets Art Exhibit

Robert BoettcherAn unnamed Hopeville resident.​If you happen to be in the Loop during the next few weeks, you might stroll into Subterranean Books, which has put on an exhibit by photographer Robert Boettcher. The images, all captured with a basic point-and-shoot digital camera, depict the cit ... More >>

White Flag Show Another Kind of Vapor Highlights Weekend's Art Openings

Another Kind of Vapor opens this weekend at White Flag Projects. The works therein are created with non-traditional materials in many different media -- utilizing ketchup, chocolate, sun-bleaching and Pepto-Bismol -- to produce fleeting pieces of art. More on this event and more after the jump. Cour ... More >>

Outside, The City

Adrian Henderson: Homeless Man Stabbed to Death in Squatters' Camp Along River

One man is dead, and another is in jail, following an argument that turned violent Monday night in Hopeville -- the homeless camp (below) that lies north of downtown St. Louis and just next to the river.​According to police, 36-year-old Adrian Henderson was quarreling with a 50-year-old man around ... More >>

City Hall Applies Dormitory Rules to St. Louis Homeless Camp: No Drugs, Slobs, Drunkeness

​The list reads like the rules college freshman are handed when moving into student housing. The only exception: Members of the opposite sex don't have to be gone by midnight. Woohoo! In an effort to "protect safety" at Hopeville -- a growing homeless camp on the St. Louis riverfront near Mullanp ... More >>

Homeless People Displaced from Hopeville Camp $1 Rooms At Hyatt Hotel = Solution?

Image viaView is better up here.​So the city is booting out the homeless from "Hopeville," a makeshift encampment underneath Tucker Boulevard. What to do? Well, consider this: The St. Louis Business Journal just reported that the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch is running a promotion this summ ... More >>

City Officials Blame Rev. Larry Rice for "Hopeville" Homeless Camp, Detail Eviction Procedures

Just received an e-mail from Mayor Slay spokeswoman Kara Bowlin detailing the city's plan to evict dozens of homeless people from a makeshift encampment under Tucker Boulevard to make way for a $34 million construction project.Aimee Levitt posted about the Hopeville conflict yesterday on Daily RFT, ... More >>

City Hands Eviction Notices to Homeless People Living Beneath Tucker Boulevard

In anticipation of street construction downtown scheduled to start next week, the city served eviction notices this morning to the homeless people of "Hopeville," a tent city in an abandoned railway tunnel beneath Tucker Boulevard. Image SourceAs seen on Stltoday.com, this image depicts "Hopeville, ... More >>