In April 2024, Missouri voters passed Prop C, allowing the construction of the City Centre Complex to start at the American Car Foundry property. This will include things like a city hall, recreation center, senior center and a four seasons farmers market. The construction has affected the Academy of the Sacred Heart, located on Second street.
“As soon as City Hall notified us that they were going to start construction and shut down second street in front of our school, we had to kind of brainstorm together and think about a new route for our arrival and dismissal of our students,” principal Mary Reepmeyer said.
This not only alters the students at Sacred Heart’s daily routine, but it affects many people, such as those who work on Main Street or people who go to the Steel Shop for sports or events. Many athletes who practice at the Steel Shop are impacted by the road closure.
“It’s not really more different,” sophomore Makenzi Foley said. “It’s just I have to go a different way than what I’m used to.”
