Driven by Urban League, New Developments Coming to Ferguson

 

ST. LOUIS, MO - The President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) does not like seeing empty lots in his town. So, he’s doing something about it.

Michael McMillan is working on purchasing three vacant lots on West Florissant Avenue. "When people see vacant abandoned lots that they know used to be businesses, it adds to the thought that a community is dying," he said. He believes that, after the Michael Brown shooting in 2014, “it exposed the worst of us to the entire world, and so we will always be judged on what we did or did not do in Ferguson.”

This belief is the driving force of the new developments, that includes a new city plaza, and a new senior center across the street. The senior citizen center will include 44 housing units. Within the city plaza, there will be a First Bank, a banquet hall, and a restaurant.

"We worked with the county, looked at the neighborhood driven plan of what they wanted to see in the area and then purchased those three lots with the help of Centene Corporation and Emerson and then now are beginning to implement what the community said they want to see," McMillan said.

"The community needs to see action. They need to see that people still care, that Ferguson, Dellwood and North County have not been forgotten," McMillan said.

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