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BJC is finishing up planning for the expansion. I like the new renderings more then the older ones. There will be two buildings now with none them having a huge sky-bridge.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... 534a3.html
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... 534a3.html
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here's the website with a link to the fundraising site.... looks like a great project.Gateway City wrote:They still have a few thousand dollars to raise. It will be on Morganford. Should be nice for St. Louis' image to skaters because we don't have a real skatepark in the City right now.
http://kingshighwayskateboarding.blogspot.com/
thanks again, erina.... I wasn't sure what was going to be the future of the skateboard community after losing the Kingshighway spot.
updated to include awesome project by UIC to rehab 1930's 1520 S. Vandeventer in the Vandergrove area for an IT company that is moving to the city from the County.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... toric.html
These are the types of smaller projects that will build on Cortex and other headliners and move the city forward.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... toric.html
These are the types of smaller projects that will build on Cortex and other headliners and move the city forward.
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^ such a nondescript little building in a weird location... wonder why they chose that one.
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^ I imagine UIC is delivering them a creative space at a solid price point... it also is a pretty convenient area with good access to both 44 & 60 by car, Tower Grove Mews is right around the corner for lunch or after-work drinks and the Grove is walkable as well on a nice day. Not a glamorous address but I can definitely see the interest.
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A growing IT company needs a location that can attract a workforce. They moved first from Fenton to a larger space in Clayton, and now from Clayton to the area between the Grove and Tower Grove. That says a lot.
^ The members of the demographic that predominates in the contemporary tech scene don't want to live in Clayton and they certainly don't want to live in Fenton.
It seems there is new news in this area and in this industry nearly every day! This is collectively a game changer for the city IMO. Now, what can be done to make sure this momentum is maintained? Transit, density, and walkability, which leads to the kind of lifestyle that a great many younger people are preferring. I hope the city can step up to play its part.
It seems there is new news in this area and in this industry nearly every day! This is collectively a game changer for the city IMO. Now, what can be done to make sure this momentum is maintained? Transit, density, and walkability, which leads to the kind of lifestyle that a great many younger people are preferring. I hope the city can step up to play its part.
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It's exciting to think that moves like this could drag the CORTEX "feel" further south to the Grove. Technically not CORTEX, I know. But still, it would be great if development here continued filling in this way to connect those two growing areas.
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Updated to include opening of The Purple Martin bar/restaurant, a great-looking rehab of 2800 Shenandoah right across from Fox Park.
^ Great! That Fox Park corner needs some work and this will be a big help aesthetically.
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I've always felt Cortex was beginning to have a positive effect on the grove and i feel it will not only spread south to mccreetown but will spread north and east into slu as well. This will change the look and feel of the city ofcourse i love all 79 neighborhoods in the city...
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Completed 2014
Fields Foods
Renovation of 2709 Cherokee into Los Punk. (Multiple additional properties to come)
Stan Span
Renovation of 1425 Salisbury into Sun Cafe
London Tea Room Relocation/Expansion to Hyde Park Building on Morgan Ford (from downtown)
Urban Chestnut in the Grove (conversion of Rennard Paper facility)
Gallery 515 apartments (102 units) (Millennium Center 11 floor apartment conversion)
Lacassian Lofts -- 2200 Locust (27 units + ground floor commercial)
Cortona @ Forest Park (278 units)
@4240 - CIC at Cortex (occupied but official "grand opening" to come)
t-rex move - renovation of occupied Lammert Building
Bride's House commercial renovation (1010 Locust)
Flance Early Learning Center (1908 O'Fallon - Carr Square new construction)
Rehab of 2800 Shenandoah for Purple Martin bar/restaurant
CitiParc at Pine Senior Housing redevelopment of vacant Plaza Square building (149 units)
Ball Park Village Live
Universal Foods renovation of vacant big box grocery- 4330 S. Broadway (global foods store)
Expected Completions 2014
Transportation
Partial Completion of Arch Project street work (new on/off ramps, Texas turn-around, replacement of Walnut St. Bridge, removal of Chestnut and Market bridges, completion of south portion of Central Riverfront Trail/LKSullivan, demo of Arch parking garage and closure of Washington)
New I-64 bridges/Tower Grove Interchange
Downtown
Vacant Globe Drug Building to U-Haul retail and storage facility
Tower OPOP (128 units)
Mayfair Hotel conversion and upgrade to Magnolia Hotel
Bissinger's Chocolates -- N. RIverfront vacant building renovation
Union Station (first phase of large renovation)
1915 Olive (old AG Edwards building) conversion to new Police HQ
Old Cathedral renovation
Laclede's Landing Plaza & 3rd Street streetscape
Central Corridor
Mixed-use Wash U Delmar new construction
Lacledes Lofts (50 units) (April opening)
Aventura Phase II (102 units)
4011 Delmar (Renovation into Residential for Veterans) (68 units)
Terry Park homes in Gate District (25 single family homes)
UIC Tower Grove Mews mixed use development (Spring opening)
UIC rehab of 1520 S. Vandeventer for IT company (Summer opening)
Conversion of vacant CWE St. John's UMC into Link Auction Galleries (goal of March opening)
245 Union residential project (expected late 2014 completion) (88 units)
Salvation Army Midtown Rehabs
Shriner's Hospital
Cortex Commons
Public Media Commons
Sun Theater
Missouri Theater Building - BB King's and other Commercial Space (108 unit residential portion slated for 2015 completion)
The Ready Room life music venue in the Grove - 4195 Manchester (RU Ready for April 2?)
Mercedes-Benz of Saint Louis (relocation from Ellisville)
Modern Brewing renovation of 5231 Manchester
South City
Farmers & Merchant and Lutz buildings renovation into "Southside Station" mixed-use development (39 units)
Multiple renovations of underutilized Cherokee St. Buildings including 2728 (Yaqui's) 2732 (Craft Art Bar) & 2701 (Luminary)
Adaptive Rehab of Kinloch Telephone Exchange Building 2201 Indiana
Bailey's Rooster rehab of vacant mid-modern South Grand bank building
3612 Hartford mixed-use renovation (just off S. Grand)
Subway/mixed-use building Soulard
Subway/mixed-use building S. Knghwy
Grapeseed renovation of 5400 Nottingham
Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden -- 4415 Morgan Ford vacant lot (expected May opening)
North City
North Sarah Apartments Phase II - mixed use (103 units + commercial)
"Blossom House" renovation - 5331 Enright
2014 Expected Construction Starts with post-2014 completion
Downtown
Chemical Building (approx. 120 units) (mid-2015 opening)
Arcade (approx. 280 units)
The Alverne Building Apartments - 1014 Locust (81 units)
2015 Lucas "Intrada Lofts" (57 units)
Arch grounds
Gen Am Building renovation for Laclede Gas move
Blues Museum
Central Corridor
Beaumont Building 2650 Locust 70 unit, market rate rehab (projected fall construction start and late 2015 finish)
"The Standard" 164 unit, 465 bed new residential; demo of Mobil Gas Station (August 2015 opening)
Renovation of Gerhart Block for ground floor commercial and 17 lofts above (across from IKEA)
City Walk/Whole Foods mixed-use (under construction w/ 2015 completion; 177 units)
1900 Pine (87 units)
IKEA - Cortex (2015 completion) (August 2015 opening)
Crescent Building rehab to residential - Cortex
WUMC McKinley Research Building (already begun - 2015 completion)
BJC hospital buildings
STLCOP Phase I
Home2Suites Hilton in FPSE
Loop Trolley (finally!)
Conversion of vacant CWE church into Cathedral Square Brewery (500 N. Kingshighway)
Demo of existing/construction of new Commerce Bank @ Manchester & Vandeventer
AT Still Dental in City Hospital complex (April construction commencement)
South City
S. Knghwy Viaduct
youth treatment facility at Grand & Gravois
24 single-family Mississippi Bluffs project
North City
Northside Regeneration (not sure of anything slated to be completed in '14, but I believe streetscaping will begin for Cass and Jefferson and the Saint Louis Place pilot homes may get underway)
Cardinal Ritter former campus redevelopment into Vets housing
Fields Foods
Renovation of 2709 Cherokee into Los Punk. (Multiple additional properties to come)
Stan Span
Renovation of 1425 Salisbury into Sun Cafe
London Tea Room Relocation/Expansion to Hyde Park Building on Morgan Ford (from downtown)
Urban Chestnut in the Grove (conversion of Rennard Paper facility)
Gallery 515 apartments (102 units) (Millennium Center 11 floor apartment conversion)
Lacassian Lofts -- 2200 Locust (27 units + ground floor commercial)
Cortona @ Forest Park (278 units)
@4240 - CIC at Cortex (occupied but official "grand opening" to come)
t-rex move - renovation of occupied Lammert Building
Bride's House commercial renovation (1010 Locust)
Flance Early Learning Center (1908 O'Fallon - Carr Square new construction)
Rehab of 2800 Shenandoah for Purple Martin bar/restaurant
CitiParc at Pine Senior Housing redevelopment of vacant Plaza Square building (149 units)
Ball Park Village Live
Universal Foods renovation of vacant big box grocery- 4330 S. Broadway (global foods store)
Expected Completions 2014
Transportation
Partial Completion of Arch Project street work (new on/off ramps, Texas turn-around, replacement of Walnut St. Bridge, removal of Chestnut and Market bridges, completion of south portion of Central Riverfront Trail/LKSullivan, demo of Arch parking garage and closure of Washington)
New I-64 bridges/Tower Grove Interchange
Downtown
Vacant Globe Drug Building to U-Haul retail and storage facility
Tower OPOP (128 units)
Mayfair Hotel conversion and upgrade to Magnolia Hotel
Bissinger's Chocolates -- N. RIverfront vacant building renovation
Union Station (first phase of large renovation)
1915 Olive (old AG Edwards building) conversion to new Police HQ
Old Cathedral renovation
Laclede's Landing Plaza & 3rd Street streetscape
Central Corridor
Mixed-use Wash U Delmar new construction
Lacledes Lofts (50 units) (April opening)
Aventura Phase II (102 units)
4011 Delmar (Renovation into Residential for Veterans) (68 units)
Terry Park homes in Gate District (25 single family homes)
UIC Tower Grove Mews mixed use development (Spring opening)
UIC rehab of 1520 S. Vandeventer for IT company (Summer opening)
Conversion of vacant CWE St. John's UMC into Link Auction Galleries (goal of March opening)
245 Union residential project (expected late 2014 completion) (88 units)
Salvation Army Midtown Rehabs
Shriner's Hospital
Cortex Commons
Public Media Commons
Sun Theater
Missouri Theater Building - BB King's and other Commercial Space (108 unit residential portion slated for 2015 completion)
The Ready Room life music venue in the Grove - 4195 Manchester (RU Ready for April 2?)
Mercedes-Benz of Saint Louis (relocation from Ellisville)
Modern Brewing renovation of 5231 Manchester
South City
Farmers & Merchant and Lutz buildings renovation into "Southside Station" mixed-use development (39 units)
Multiple renovations of underutilized Cherokee St. Buildings including 2728 (Yaqui's) 2732 (Craft Art Bar) & 2701 (Luminary)
Adaptive Rehab of Kinloch Telephone Exchange Building 2201 Indiana
Bailey's Rooster rehab of vacant mid-modern South Grand bank building
3612 Hartford mixed-use renovation (just off S. Grand)
Subway/mixed-use building Soulard
Subway/mixed-use building S. Knghwy
Grapeseed renovation of 5400 Nottingham
Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden -- 4415 Morgan Ford vacant lot (expected May opening)
North City
North Sarah Apartments Phase II - mixed use (103 units + commercial)
"Blossom House" renovation - 5331 Enright
2014 Expected Construction Starts with post-2014 completion
Downtown
Chemical Building (approx. 120 units) (mid-2015 opening)
Arcade (approx. 280 units)
The Alverne Building Apartments - 1014 Locust (81 units)
2015 Lucas "Intrada Lofts" (57 units)
Arch grounds
Gen Am Building renovation for Laclede Gas move
Blues Museum
Central Corridor
Beaumont Building 2650 Locust 70 unit, market rate rehab (projected fall construction start and late 2015 finish)
"The Standard" 164 unit, 465 bed new residential; demo of Mobil Gas Station (August 2015 opening)
Renovation of Gerhart Block for ground floor commercial and 17 lofts above (across from IKEA)
City Walk/Whole Foods mixed-use (under construction w/ 2015 completion; 177 units)
1900 Pine (87 units)
IKEA - Cortex (2015 completion) (August 2015 opening)
Crescent Building rehab to residential - Cortex
WUMC McKinley Research Building (already begun - 2015 completion)
BJC hospital buildings
STLCOP Phase I
Home2Suites Hilton in FPSE
Loop Trolley (finally!)
Conversion of vacant CWE church into Cathedral Square Brewery (500 N. Kingshighway)
Demo of existing/construction of new Commerce Bank @ Manchester & Vandeventer
AT Still Dental in City Hospital complex (April construction commencement)
South City
S. Knghwy Viaduct
youth treatment facility at Grand & Gravois
24 single-family Mississippi Bluffs project
North City
Northside Regeneration (not sure of anything slated to be completed in '14, but I believe streetscaping will begin for Cass and Jefferson and the Saint Louis Place pilot homes may get underway)
Cardinal Ritter former campus redevelopment into Vets housing
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Not sure were to put this but it is a nice update on old north.
http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine ... e-in-2014/
http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine ... e-in-2014/
^ No mention of Ballpark Village in that master-list? Perhaps the highest profile project completion of the year? 
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^ never heard of it? can you tell me more? 
^^ looks like that Saint Louis Ave building is a nice pick-up for ONSL.... hopefully they can put it to good use soon but I'll leave off for now since it doesn't look like there are no concrete plans for starting this year.
^^ looks like that Saint Louis Ave building is a nice pick-up for ONSL.... hopefully they can put it to good use soon but I'll leave off for now since it doesn't look like there are no concrete plans for starting this year.
I also hope though that it works in reverse as well and the creativity and energy of Tower Grove Mews and the Grove can influence Cortex.... having that old brewing co. office rehabbed into a comfy and unique watering hole, etc. instead of being torn down is the type of thing that could really turn Cortex into an amazing place that combines our past with the 21st Century to make things really interesting.BrickCity4470 wrote:I've always felt Cortex was beginning to have a positive effect on the grove and i feel it will not only spread south to mccreetown but will spread north and east into slu as well.
As the Chemical and Arcade project start dates seem to be in perpetual limbo I can't help but think the culprit may be identified in this St Louis Business journal article:
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/prin ... rehab.html
Apparently the IRS brought down an unfavorable tax credit ruling in NJ leaving investors in this type of financing squeamish about moving large projects forward. USBankCorp in STL has a large back load of projects. I would guess they are involved in the financing of one or both of these.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/prin ... rehab.html
Apparently the IRS brought down an unfavorable tax credit ruling in NJ leaving investors in this type of financing squeamish about moving large projects forward. USBankCorp in STL has a large back load of projects. I would guess they are involved in the financing of one or both of these.
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^ could be.... hopefully that issue gets worked out soon.
Seems like the big projects that we're anxiously awaiting to be done deals with actual work commenced are The Chemical and Arcade buildings and Blues Museum and Loop Trolley.
Seems like the big projects that we're anxiously awaiting to be done deals with actual work commenced are The Chemical and Arcade buildings and Blues Museum and Loop Trolley.
As I said in the other thread, this is not supposed to be public yet. The reporter was explicitly told not to mention it. The building is only under contract at this point. Oh well. Cat's out of the bag now. Now you know what one of the projects is that I was vaguely referencing earlier in this thread. This building is my baby for the next couple years.seanmcelligott644 wrote:Not sure were to put this but it is a nice update on old north.
http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine ... e-in-2014/
Do not expect any solid plans or construction here for a little while, but there are some possible interim uses in the works to keep life in the building. It's structurally sound, but will need a lot of work for conversion to whatever it's next life is.
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^ I'm glad it looks like it will be in good hands.
Clayco has a fence around and started working on the Gen life building.
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Added a few updates...
of course BPV Live opens today and I believe Cityparc on Pine is now leasing to seniors. I also added a few projects such as the renovation of the Blossom House on Enright and the mixed-use rehab of 3612 Hartford, just off S. Grand.
of course BPV Live opens today and I believe Cityparc on Pine is now leasing to seniors. I also added a few projects such as the renovation of the Blossom House on Enright and the mixed-use rehab of 3612 Hartford, just off S. Grand.
Big weekend for the City and I'm not talking about BPV opening.... Universal Foods is opening today on S. Broadway adjacent to I-55 in what I think may have been a former National. It brightens up a vacant eyesore, ends a food desert and brings international foods to a community with a lot of immigrants. May it prosper!
http://www.feaststl.com/the-feed/articl ... f6878.html
http://www.feaststl.com/the-feed/articl ... f6878.html