Photos: Carr school awaits redevelopment
Downtown St. Louis is seen from a classroom window in the old Carr School on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. Urban Strategies is the lead applicant on a Choice Neighborhood $30M grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Planners hope to make the historic school the Jonas Hubbard Jr. Family Center. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
A first floor classroom of Carr School, located at the corner of Carr and 15th streets, is photographed on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
An exterior view of the crumbling Carr School, located at the corner of Carr and 15th streets, is photographed on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
The entry to the old historic Carr School is photographed on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. Urban Strategies is the lead applicant on a Choice Neighborhood $30M grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Planners hope to make the historic school the Jonas Hubbard Jr. Family Center. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
The skeleton of the basement boiler of Carr School, located at the corner of Carr and 15th streets, is photographed on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
A side entrance door to Carr School, located at the corner of Carr and 15th streets, is photographed on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Demolition work progresses as a construction crew works on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 at Preservation Square as the first phase of the long-anticipated project begins as part of the McCormack Baron Salazar rehab of the low-income housing project located on Cass Avenue and 16th Street. Photo by Cheyenne Boone, cboone@post-dispatch.com
Demolition work progresses as a construction crew works on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, at Preservation Square as the first phase of the long-anticipated project begins as part of the McCormack Baron Salazar rehab of the low-income housing project located on Cass Avenue and 16th Street.Â
Demolition work progresses on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, at Preservation Square as part of the McCormack Baron Salazar rehab of the low-income housing project located along Cass Avenue. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
Robert Cohen
Staff Photographer
"They always sat down at the table and negotiated a development fee and how that should be shared. We thought in this process, that should be a givenâ€