St. Louis Magazine

ARTFUL CONSTRUCTION

UNDER A SCOWLING summer sun, Kaveh Razani squints out the second-floor dormer window of a South City rehab-in-progress. “It’s gonna be interesting,” he says, looking up the street. “There will be six artists living within 100 yards of each other.”

Razani is director of operations at St. Louis Art Place Initiative. It’s a nonprofit that, thanks to $750,000 in pledged funds from Kranzberg Art Foundation and Incarnate Word Foundation, snapped up two dozen derelict city-owned properties in the Gravois Park neighborhood. The goal now is to

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