Community Corner

Smokehouse, Shooting Range to Open on Gravois Road

A longtime Affton business owner wants to bring more vibrancy to the community, he said.

Reporting by Local Editor Doug Miner

A business that’s been on the east end of Gravois Road in Affton for 21 years will soon offer more in a new building next door.

Keith Brooks owns Southside Jewelry and Loan, and is set to open a shooting range and a smokehouse restaurant in August.

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“We’re just hoping this brings a vibrancy to our end of Gravois, so people that don’t regularly come to our community will come to our community to use our range, but they’ll see that we have many other flourishing businesses where they might want to do business,” he said.

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