Ten New Homes in Peabody Darst Webbe Neighborhood
Date Posted: September 4, 2019
Posted In: Projects,
From St. Louis City Talk: I recently noticed some new home construction from Tucker Boulevard just south of Downtown in the Peabody Darst Webbe Neighborhood. A quick scan of the neighborhood, and I noticed two more lots west of Tucker seeing infill as well.
I had to figure out what was afoot. Turns out the new homes are part of a multi-home build by Habitat for Humanity:
Habitat’s 400th home is located at 1200 block of South 13th Street and last week’s ground breaking marked the start of a 10-house build in the LaSaison (Peabody Darst Webbe) neighborhood. Five homes (Phase I) will be completed by the end of 2019. These new homes will have three-to-four bedrooms, two baths and will be two-story buildings.
— Habitat for Humanity – St. Louis – June, 2018
This is the first I’ve heard of the “LaSaison Neighborhood” moniker, the official city neighborhood is Peabody Darst Webbe (PDW) so I’m sticking with that.
This part of town was formerly the site of Mid-Century high rise public housing complexes that are no longer thought to be equitable and sustainable. The newer concept for affordable and subsidized housing is single and multi-family homes; in this case, the current homes were largely built in the early 2000s.