最新杏吧原创 Development Corp. President and CEO Neal Richardson, left, joins Mayor Tishaura O. Jones as he leads city officials on a tour of the old Killark Electric building at 3940 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.
Robert Cohen, Post-Dispatch
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