Collapsed buildings and homes with missing roofs can be seen in the 4500 block of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Avenue in the Greater Ville neighboodd of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. The buildings were damaged when an EF3 tornado tore through the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ area in May.
ST. LOUIS — Mayor Cara Spencer on Thursday announced the opening of two more federal assistance centers on the city’s hard-hit North Side.
The first new center, where Federal Emergency Management staffers will help people apply for aid and get other help, opened Thursday in the parking lot at Sumner High School, 4248 Cottage Avenue.
Another center will open Monday in an Urban League building at 4401 Natural Bridge Avenue. A center at Union Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, 626 North Newstead Avenue, opened last weekend.
The first major aid center, at Chaifetz Arena in Midtown, was set to close at the end of the day Thursday.
“We are scaling up our efforts here in the affected neighborhoods by putting these resources right here in the community,†Spencer said at a news conference at the Sumner site.
Hours at the Sumner location are 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. The Urban League site’s hours will be 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. The church location’s hours are from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
Applications for aid are also available online at .
Officials say that so far, more than $17 million in federal individual assistance claims has been paid to more than 3,000 households.
But the city has estimated tens of thousands of people were affected by the storm, and Willie Nunn, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s point man for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ tornado recovery, said the $17 million is “the beginning.â€
Spencer said she could not yet say for how long the centers would be open, but she said the city would be helping people through the August 11 deadline for aid applications.
A tornado devastated the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ area on May 16, and much of the following week was spent picking up the pieces. Volunteers turned out and the road to recovery began. View the week in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ through the Post-Dispatch photographers' lenses. Edited by Jenna Jones.
City officials asked for a deadline of Oct. 10. FEMA set the new deadline at Aug. 26.Â
Collapsed buildings and homes with missing roofs can be seen in the 4500 block of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Avenue in the Greater Ville neighboodd of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. The buildings were damaged when an EF3 tornado tore through the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ area in May.
