Bevo Mill, St. Louis

The Bevo Mill area is directly to the west of the neighborhood of Dutchtown, which was a major center of German settlement in St. Louis in the mid-nineteenth century. After significant population loss in the later twentieth century, the neighborhood was revitalized in the 1990s by immigrants fleeing the devastating war in Bosnia and Croatia. Today, much of the Bevo Mill neighborhood is populated with immigrants, particularly Bosnian Americans and Croatian Americans. The St. Louis metro area is now home to an estimated 70,000 Bosnians, the largest population per capita outside Europe.[2][3] The influx of new immigrants has helped stem the decline in St. Louis's population.[4] Many Bosnians have bought homes in South St. Louis and started new businesses, including bakeries, cafés, taverns, nightclubs, restaurants, neighborhood grocery stores and butcher shops, stimulating the economy[5] and transforming the area, once known for crime, into a safe, thriving neighborhood.[6]

On 20 March 2009, Business Week reported that the Bevo Mill restaurant had shut its doors.[7] The website at the time was marked under construction and on 29 March 2009, the website stated that the account was suspended. It was in mid-2008 that the Anheuser-Busch company had merged with the Belgian-Brazilian based company InBev, forming Anheuser-Busch InBev and possibly diminishing their involvement with some local properties, such as the Bevo Mill restaurant. The restaurant subsequently reopened for Sunday brunch under new management.[8]

In 2010 Bevo Mill's racial makeup was 74.2% White, 13.8% Black, 0.4% Native American, 4.6% Asian, 3.9% Two or More Races, and 3.1% Some Other Race. 7.5% of Bevo Mill's population was of Hispanic or Latino origin.[9]

• Holly Hills, St. Louis, southeast of Bevo
• The Hill, St. Louis' Italian neighborhood
• Chinatown, St. Louis, the former downtown Chinese neighborhood
• History of the Bosnians in St. Louis
• St. Louis Islamic Center