Lutheran Development Group

09/04/2026

Yesterday we broke ground on the Bates Street Apartments! 📣📣

This new 7-unit apartment building will provide a welcoming home for recently arrived refugee and New American families as they start their lives in St. Louis and set down roots in our community.

“Love thy neighbor” is a call to serve the people around us. These homes on Bates Street are one way LDG is living out that calling here in St. Louis.

A project like this takes a lot of collaboration, and we’re grateful to everyone who helped make it possible:
Funding Support from Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, Lutheran Church Extension Fund, LCEF, and Midwest BankCentre
Community Partnership from Christian Friends of New Americans
Civic Leaders Mayor Cara Spencer and Alderwoman Anne Schweitzer
Project Development through CORE10 Architecture and CF. Vatterott Construction

Thank you to everyone who has contributed time, resources, and expertise to make this project a reality!

08/25/2026

Starting this week!
The St. Louis City Parks & Recreation Division and New Dimensions Soccer are running the fall league again, and Marquette Park is the practice home for our corner of the South Side. Practices are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00 PM. Games are Saturdays at recreation centers across the city, so players get out to fields beyond their own neighborhood.
Open to kids ages 5 and up. Uniform is included, and you sign up through your recreation center — scan the QR code on the picture, visit https://stlcityrec.recdesk.com/, or just stop by practice and flag a coach!

Fall soccer is back at Marquette Park! Kids who can walk to practice get to play more! That is the whole point of a city-wide rec league, and it is why having this one in Dutchtown matters to us!

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The St. Louis City Parks & Recreation Division and New Dimensions Soccer are running the fall league again, and Marquette Park is the practice home for our corner of the South Side. Practices are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00 PM. Games are Saturdays at recreation centers across the city, so players get out to fields beyond their own neighborhood.

Open to kids ages 5 and up. Uniform is included, and you sign up through your recreation center — scan the QR code on the picture, visit https://stlcityrec.recdesk.com/, or just stop by practice and flag a coach!

🗓️ Practices Tuesdays and Thursdays 🕕 6:00 PM 📍 Marquette Park ⚽ Games Saturdays at city recreation centers 🔗 Register at stlcityrec.recdesk.com

08/13/2026

📣 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Dutchtown Main Streets is looking for volunteers to lend a hand with our neighborhood vacancy reduction work! On Saturday, August 22, we’ll be cleaning out 3135 Osage, a vacant multifamily property that we’re working to transition to a developer for renovation.

Before the property can move forward toward renovation, we need some extra hands to help clear it out and get it ready for its next chapter.

Available volunteer shifts are:

• 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

• 1:00–5:00 p.m.

• Or, join us for the full day from 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

We’ll provide protective gear and refreshments for volunteers. Volunteers will also be asked to sign a waiver before beginning work.

Interested in helping out? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/9sjG8apwy3w8Pii97

07/28/2026

We're excited to see this transformative project moving forward! Congratulations to our friends at DeSales Community Development on the Virginia Plaza development.
Virginia Plaza will be an anchor for Greater Dutchtown bringing new housing, commercial space, and renewed energy to an important corridor.
Every project like this strengthens the momentum we're seeing across our Dutchtown. We can't wait to watch it take shape! 🏘

Community-centered wins continue to stack up in, and around, South City's Dutchtown and Carondelet neighborhoods.DeSales Community Development is setting sail on a mixed-use development that'll renovate multiple older structures and construct other new ones near Virginia and Eiler. The plan calls fo...

07/14/2026

This Friday there will be a neighborhood clean-up led by the City of St. Louis. There will be an extra presence from Forestry, Streets, Refuse, Parks, Towing, and Building Divisions around the neighborhood.
You can join this Friday afternoon at 3pm at Marquette Park at Minnesota and Gasconade to help with the clean-up!

UPDATE: the community cleanup will now begin at 2pm!

City of St. Louis Government departments are honing in on Dutchtown this week! Coordinated by the Neighborhood Stabilization Division and the Mayor's Office, we'll see an extra presence from Forestry, Streets, Refuse, Parks, Towing, and Building Divisions around the neighborhood.

You can pitch in by joining City staff this Friday afternoon for a neighborhood cleanup embarking from Marquette Park at Minnesota and Gasconade at 2pm. Thanks to our City workers and departments for this effort!

07/01/2026

Two homes, two chances to put down roots in Dutchtown! 4120 and 4122 Nebraska are officially on the market, listed at $215,000 each and sitting right next door to one another. Move in solo, or convince your best friend it’s time to become neighbors.

Both homes are part of LDG’s new construction homes, built to give more families the chance to own in Dutchtown. Down payment assistance of at least $35,000 is available for qualifying buyers! Best to move quickly because the down payment program ends September 30th!

Know someone looking? Email [email protected] to get started!

06/26/2026

06/24/2026

Sharing this great opportunity from Dutchtown Main Streets! We know from our own work restoring vacant buildings across Dutchtown how much architectural expertise can help a project succeed. Excited to see more partners get involved in Dutchtown!

Calling all architects: help bring Dutchtown homes back to life!

We are expanding incremental development across Dutchtown, and we are looking for architects who want to be part of it.

All over the neighborhood, neighbors are taking on vacant, structurally damaged buildings and doing the hard work of returning them to use. It is meaningful work. It is also risky, and most of these sweat equity developers carry that risk on their own. They rarely have the upfront capital to pay full price for architecture and design on top of everything else a rehab demands.

That is where the right partner can make the difference.

We want to connect with large firms or professionals ready to:

🏠 Bring architectural and design expertise to rehab projects led by neighbors

🏡 Help reduce the risk in the earliest and hardest stage of saving a damaged building

🔨 Build a lasting partnership in one of the most diverse and dense neighborhoods in St. Louis

If your firm wants to put its talent toward real neighborhood revitalization, we want to hear from you.

Reach out at [email protected].

06/22/2026

Thank you to the volunteers for spending the day with us in Dutchtown! After a tour of the neighborhoodand LDG projects, the team worked at Marquette Park—picking up trash, planting Missouri natives, and painting planters. We are so grateful for giving their time, energy, and hard work to one of our greatest community spaces!

06/22/2026

Thank you to the LCEF volunteers for spending the day with us in Dutchtown! After a tour of the neighborhood and LDG projects, the team worked at Marquette Park—picking up trash, planting Missouri natives, and painting planters. We are so grateful for giving their time, energy, and hard work to one of our greatest community spaces!