End Eminent Domain Abuse
While the courts in St. Louis ruled this to be removed from the wall, it was still there in the Fall of 2009. Responding to threats of property owner’s rights in the United States, and, specifically, in St. Louis proper, Jim Roos, apparently both artist and activist, painted this mural to decorate the wall of this 19th century building with his political message. It is highly visible from the interstate and is located in a part of St. Louis that is heavily blighted or at least missing many buildings in what used to be densely built row-like city lots. Note that next to this property is a building with boarded up windows. Like other of our formerly industrial American cities, St. Louis is laden many neighborhoods blighted with buildings or the lack there of wherein slums have formed due to high welfare concentrations and slum landlords. We agree about the eminent domain, but let’s also charge property owners to take pride in their neighborhood(s)–whether they live there or not…
Three Flames for Jim Roos.
