ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III says he’s optimistic about downtown St. Louis, believing it has “passed the bottom” after being plagued by inactivity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I just feel like we've hit bottom on many levels, including activity levels, development levels and safety and security levels and it feels to me like we’re on a really good trajectory there,” DeWitt said in an interview.
But DeWitt also said a multimillion-dollar infrastructure project designed to better connect Ballpark Village to Washington Avenue, for which DeWitt has led fundraising, has been delayed from its original timeline. Officials behind the project say they expect it to begin soon.
DeWitt said his enthusiasm about the state of downtown stems from increased security patrols, new public safety leadership and the team’s own internal efforts to provide safety around Busch Stadium.