Mr. Skillman will talk at the next meeting of the Holly Hills Improvement Association on Monday, September 1999. In recent years there has been much positive activity at Carondelet Park. The passage in 1994 of the one half cent sales tax for capital improvements has resulted in numerous changes to the park.
Further work is planned for the future.
Mr. Skillman reports that since 1994, the City of St. Louis, working with Aldermen Fred Wessels and Matt Villa, have compiled a seemingly endless list of improvements for the park. The Parks Division continues to implement the renovations. First, it upgraded the park roadways and replaced perimeter concrete sidewalks, including those along Loughborough Boulevard. Next, the division refurbished the park picnic shelters and renovated the exterior of the park boathouse. Electrical service to the park boathouse, music pavilion and the large picnic shelter also were upgraded.