"We have nowhere to go, where are we going to go?," asks Trista Combs as she wipes off summer sweat while working with her son Rodney to begin the process of moving their belongings from a downtown tent camp on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Combs, who cleans houses in Chesterfield, said she was told that the encampment, located on a city-owned plaza between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square, would be closed within days. Another resident who went by the name MJ, said a water fountain that was attached to a fire hydrant, was removed Tuesday morning as a fence was erected shielding the property from Tucker Boulevard. MJ said it was the only source of water. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Robert Cohen
A city-owned plaza is filled with tents and other equipment between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square, at rear, on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. The city of ӣƵ has started erecting a fence around its perimeter. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Robert Cohen
"We have nowhere to go, where are we going to go?," asks Trista Combs as she wipes off summer sweat while working with her son Rodney Combs, 23, to begin the process of moving their belongings from a downtown tent camp on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Combs, who cleans houses in Chesterfield, said she was told that the encampment, located on a city-owned plaza between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square, would be closed within days. Another resident who went by the name MJ, said a water fountain that was attached to a fire hydrant, was removed Tuesday morning as a fence was erected shielding the property from Tucker Boulevard. MJ said it was the only source of water. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Robert Cohen
Items litter the sidewalk along Tucker Boulevard as a man sleeps inside a fenced tent camp downtown near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. The city-owned plaza lies between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Robert Cohen
Rodney Combs moves belongings to storage at the intersection of Hadley Street and Martin Luther King Drive from a downtown tent camp where he lives with his mother and three siblings on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Combs lives in a tent on a city-owned plaza between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
ST. LOUIS — As hundreds of additional workers prepare to move to Square’s new offices in one of the most significant corporate additions downtown ӣƵ has seen in years, City Hall is dealing with another influx of people next door to the company’s building on Tucker Boulevard.
The plan could trigger a city charter provision requiring a public vote on the deal.
"We have nowhere to go, where are we going to go?," asks Trista Combs as she wipes off summer sweat while working with her son Rodney to begin the process of moving their belongings from a downtown tent camp on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Combs, who cleans houses in Chesterfield, said she was told that the encampment, located on a city-owned plaza between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square, would be closed within days. Another resident who went by the name MJ, said a water fountain that was attached to a fire hydrant, was removed Tuesday morning as a fence was erected shielding the property from Tucker Boulevard. MJ said it was the only source of water. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
A city-owned plaza is filled with tents and other equipment between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square, at rear, on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. The city of ӣƵ has started erecting a fence around its perimeter. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
"We have nowhere to go, where are we going to go?," asks Trista Combs as she wipes off summer sweat while working with her son Rodney Combs, 23, to begin the process of moving their belongings from a downtown tent camp on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Combs, who cleans houses in Chesterfield, said she was told that the encampment, located on a city-owned plaza between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square, would be closed within days. Another resident who went by the name MJ, said a water fountain that was attached to a fire hydrant, was removed Tuesday morning as a fence was erected shielding the property from Tucker Boulevard. MJ said it was the only source of water. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Items litter the sidewalk along Tucker Boulevard as a man sleeps inside a fenced tent camp downtown near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. The city-owned plaza lies between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Rodney Combs moves belongings to storage at the intersection of Hadley Street and Martin Luther King Drive from a downtown tent camp where he lives with his mother and three siblings on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Combs lives in a tent on a city-owned plaza between St. Patrick Center and the new home of Square. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
