North Village Arts District

The neighborhood is also home to restaurants, bars, food trucks, housewares shops, theaters, and a distillery.

[10] A former gas manufacturing site, now owned by Ameren, may be turned into public green space.

[11][12] Several buildings in the neighborhood are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including Wabash Station, the Boone County Courthouse, Columbia National Guard Armory, Elkins House, First Christian Church, and McCain Furniture Store.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Columbia Gas Works operated a coal gasification plant at the corner of Ash and Orr streets.

[11][12] Ameren has been criticized by the North Village Board of Directors and community for its treatment of "a whole city block that is in disrepair and [...] an aversion to commerce.