Rebuild in North St Louis

Rebuild Foundation

Funding Received: 2013
St. Louis, MO
$250,000
Funding Period: 1 year and 5 months

Led by internationally reknown artist and creative placemaker Theaster Gates, Rebuild Foundation will expand its revitalization work in the north St. Louis neighborhood of Hyde Park by transforming a vacant building and adjacent lot into an arts and design-centric urban amenity activated by diverse programming developed in partnership with the community such as The Listening Room project that will share archives of Black music with the neighborhood, a cultural food program, an artist-led forum on neighborhood public space and an incubator for local craftsmen and artistic entrepreneurs.

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See below for recent updates, press, and events from this project

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By Vanity Gee Update The last several months have been busy, transitional, challenging, and rewarding all at once for Rebuild. In March, Rebuild welcomed a... Read More
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Jul 11, 2014
Julie Longyear started making aromatherapy candles at home part time in 2000. Four years later, she incorporated what would become Blissoma , a botanical skin... Read More
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Updates In January, Rebuild re-instated our Open Studio program. We are excited that Open Studio has hosted over 25 youth, ages 8 to 16 as... Read More
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Updates While engaging our families, youth, community partners and local businesses in open conversation about the use of the space in Hyde Park, the Art... Read More
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Updates In effort to identify community needs in Hyde Park, we recently conducted a community meeting regarding the construction of our site. We collected information... Read More
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3D Model of 1419 Mallinckrodt; Courtesy of el dorado inc. Update As our design team works on obtaining permit and construction documents for 1419 Mallinckrodt,... Read More
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Inside 1419, in the future location of our brick oven; photo by Charlie Vinz Updates Since June, we've begun to assemble our team of building... Read More
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1419 Mallinckrodt in June 2013; photo by Charlie Vinz Updates 1419 Mallinckrodt was a vacant, structurally condemned building dating from the late 1800's, one of... Read More