Tower Grove South is a
neighborhood of south
St. Louis, Missouri
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. Formerly known as
Oak
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Hill, Tower Grove South is bounded by
Arsenal Street on the north,
Chippewa Street on the south, Kingshighway Boulevard on the west, and
Grand Boulevard on the east. The majority of the neighborhood was built following the extension of
streetcar lines from
downtown St. Louis
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.
Commercial
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** Television advertisement
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development in the neighborhood is concentrated on Grand Boulevard in the east and Morganford Road in the west of the neighborhood. There are also scatterings of commercial and
mixed use
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buildings on interior intersections.
During the 1990s through the present, the neighborhood has been reversing a slow decline with the widespread rehabilitation of residential, commercial, and mixed use structures. The
Grand Boulevard business district on the eastern flank of the neighborhood was the first urban business district in the neighborhood to see rehabilitation and new pedestrian scale construction. After 2000, the smaller Morganford Road business district on the west side of the neighborhood has also seen substantial reinvestment in the form of new restaurants, bars, retail, and a neighborhood scale storefront grocery store, specializing in
Natural foods
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and locally grown foods.
Demographics
In 2020 the neighborhood's population was 57.6% White, 21.8% Black, 0.4% Native American, 7.7% Asian, 7.6% Two or More Races, and 4.8% Some Other Race. 8.4% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino origin.
[https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/planning/research/documents/upload/Total-Population-by-Neighborhood-Census-2020-Redistricting-Release-2.pdf ]
See also
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Tower Grove Park
Tower Grove Park is a municipal park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Most of its land was donated to the city by Henry Shaw in 1868. It is on 289 acres (1.17 km²) adjacent to the Missouri Botanical Garden, another of Shaw's legacies. I ...
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Tower Grove East, St. Louis
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Schnucks
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, large local grocery store chain in the area
References
Sources
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External links
Tower Grove Southneighborhood website
Tower Grove Heightsneighborhood website
South Grand Community Improvement DistrictSouth Grand business district information
Grand South GrandSouth Grand business district information
Neighborhoods in St. Louis
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