Hey Xing, can you fix your picture link? I would like to see the shot! I'm sure it's a good one.
untitledrealty, a lot of the cleared buildings were cleared due to decay as well as the forthcoming interstate system. As people continued to move to the western fringes of St. Louis - a lot - not all - of the buildings were left empty and decaying.
Anyway, many of them had been slave auction houses. Glad to see them go.
Yes, the riverfront lost a some good ones in the process. But the city also built a massive flood wall along the riverfront after the clearance. And many of the buildings would have been under water if they had been around during The Great Flood of 1993.
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"Over 1,000 flood warnings and statements, five times the normal, were issued to notify the public and need-to-know officials of river levels. In such places as St. Louis, river levels were nearly 20 feet (6 m) above flood stage, the highest ever recorded there in 228 years.[4] The 52-foot (16 m)-high St. Louis Floodwall, built to handle the volume of the 1844 flood, was able to keep the 1993 flood out with just over two feet (0.6 m) to spare.[citation needed] This floodwall was built in the 1960s, to great controversy, out of interlocking prefabricated concrete blocks. Had it been breached, the whole of downtown St. Louis would have been submerged."
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