Progress Report: The collaboration cleaning up the 161 corridor

The Forest Park neighborhood is home to Ken Gilbert and his wife, who both have fond childhood memories here.But the neighborhood changed. Gilbert said by 2012, they got used to hearing gunshots."We would hear police helicopters,” Gilbert explained.Police blamed nearly a half dozen hotels along the nearby 161 corridor. They were infested with drugs, prostitution, and violent crime, including murder.To avoid the police, Gilbert said drug dealers would do their dirty work in his neighborhood