13 months later, Hoffmanns reflect on their investment in Augusta and what is coming next

Driving into Augusta a few years ago, David Hoffmann said the rural St. Charles community was a far cry from the town he remembered as a boy in the mid-1960s when he and his father, Harvey, would crisscross the countryside collecting milk from various dairies.

“It was dying what I think people would say was a slow death, but it was certainly dying. There was only one business on Walnut Street and everything else was shuttered and closed. The buildings were in really, really bad disrepair,” Hoffmann said in a recent interview with The Missourian.

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