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The neighborhood is a diverse community with a good balance of homeowners, renters, and businesses. The architecture of the area is reflective of the rich architectural heritage found in St. Louis. Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Association is involved in improving the neighborhood and building a strong community. Come Join Us!

Neighborhood Meetings are held in January, March, May, July, September, and November. We meet at the Charless Home 4430 Nebraska the last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.

CURRENT M.P.N.A. Information: Click the "Projects" tab.

REPORT NUISANCE BEHAVIORS! Nuisance Behavior Includes: public drinking; loitering in front yards, sidewalks or streets; using,
distributing and/or selling illegal drugs; prostitution; playing music or conversing loud enough that your neighbors can hear you; overcrowding. Call the police Each And Every Time you observe a
nuisance behavior. 1) Dial 911 for an emergency or 231-1212 for a non-emergency. 2) Say, "This is a Nuisance Property" and give the address of the nuisance property. 3) Be prepared to give specifics
about What, Who, When and Where. 4) Tell your alderman and NSO so the property will be documented as a nuisance.

M.P.N.A. Newsletter:

FALL Newsletter: October / November / December 2008

About Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Association

OUR MISSION STATEMENT
The purposes for which the Corporation is organized and operated are as provided:
1. Maintaining and improving the safety of the neighborhood.
2. Encouraging the maintenance of housing stock.
3. Marketing the neighborhood by improving its visual appearance.
4. Helping to carry out housing and other programs of the Dutchtown South Community and Housing Corporation.

This Association is organized exclusively for the charitable purposes (which allow tax exemption with the meaning of Section 501(C)3 of the Internal Revenue Code) of combating community deterioration and improving the quality of life by promoting and undertaking neighborhood improvement and housing development activities.

MT. PLEASANT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
P O BOX 18662
ST. LOUIS, MO 63118
314-351-3616

MOUNT PLEASANT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION (MPNA)

In September 1994, Nadine and John Eimer contacted Executive Director Sandy Colvin of Dutchtown to informally meet and discussed issues of the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Other concerned neighbors who lived around the Mt. Pleasant Park joined the meeting. Sandy provided City Hall and Police contacts and stressed the importance of getting acquainted with all of our neighbors. Neighbors band together to get the word out that weekly meeting were being held at the Mt. Pleasant Park and for them to bring a folding chair. Open discussions were offered to all with concerns about problem properties, problem residents, crime, and safety issues. Our neighborhood property values were at an all time low. The meetings started growing by the week as more and more neighbors learned that we could get together as a group and save our neighborhood.

The first major indoor meeting was held at St. Anthony Church, we were astounded at the attendance. We knew then that we were now a strong group and that our neighbors all felt that our area was worth saving. Much work lay ahead as a board was formed, boundaries were made, and meetings to become a corporation were taking place.

The Association (MPNA) was organized exclusively for the charitable purposes of combating community deterioration and improving the quality of life by promoting and undertaking neighborhood improvement and housing development activities. Also included is the maintaining and improving of safety issues in the neighborhood, encouraging the maintenance of housing stock, marketing the neighborhood by improving the visual appearance, and helping to carry out housing and other programs of the Dutchtown South Community and Housing Corporation.

We officially became a Corporation April 3, 1995.
Our meetings had to move indoors due to the weather, the St. Louis Area Veterans Consortium graciously opened their doors to us. We continue today to have meetings at The Charless Home on So. Broadway. For 2006, we will be starting a new schedule for meetings. We will meet in JANUARY, MARCH, MAY, JULY, SEPTEMBER, and NOVEMBER. The meeting date will always be the last Wednesday of those months. All the area businesses know how much the MPNA works to better the community and have always been right there for us when we need them.

MPNA was one of the first Associations to take landlords to court in lawsuits filed by neighbors against any landowner whose property was causing our property values to be lowered in any way. Example was Carna Studio on Virginia. We won the suite and the property today is a positive in appearance for our area. We pressed for the closing of many drug houses and apartment buildings in the area that had become eyesores. An example is the Apartments that were torn down at Virginia and Liberty. That site now will become new homes in the near future. We got the quick shop closed down completely on Dakota Street which had drug activity and was a nuisance to the neighbors.

MPNA took on the Mt. Pleasant Park as a focal point of the area, to work with City Officials to have improvements done. In 10 years there has been new playground surfacing done, new playground equipment installed, beautiful landscaping that volunteers attend, (Operation Brightside Grants used for plants), and neighbors watch the park to insure that security is always good.

MPNA mails out approximately 250 newsletters to members, with information to the residence, with our phone number as a contact, if help is needed. The newsletter is a volunteer group of members, it is not a guarantee.

MPNA has always backed the Police Department and Fire Department with any help we have and have given gift certificates to many of the hard workers on those much needed safety pluses that the City provides.