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All good ideas urbanitas.  And I'd agree.  Vacant rooftops are basically wasted real estate productivity in my opinion, too.  Why not generate revenue from a rooftop? People love them, clearly, as we finally started getting a couple more.

While there is BPV there isn't much authentic about the experience.  It's a mall of mediocre, overpriced bars and restaurants that turns into a club atmosphere.

We need stuff like that around Enterprise Center too.  Too much of a depressing landscape.  You wonder why people drive in and out of there like their lives depended on it.

80 apartments and first floor retail
$21,000,000

Looks great! I'm super happy about the street-level retail. Hopefully, the city shrinks S. Broadway down to one lane and extends the sidewalks enough to allow outdoor restaurant space. This should've been the plan for this site all along. It definitely seems like the best bet in the long run.

Here are some clearer renderings. Some things to note about this project...

1. Ballpark Flats is the "working name". An official name hasn't been chosen yet.
2. There will be 80 apartments.
3. There will be a pool, fitness center, business center, and sky lounge in the building.
4. The rooftop will have two decks. One with a view of downtown and ballpark village. The other will have a narrow view into the stadium
5. Bleachers will be put on the south roof deck for the narrow view of home plate and 3rd base.
6. Retail space will be 3800sf and sets up well to be a sports bar.
7. The new addition will have a slight mansard look to it.
8. No date on when construction will start.
9. Pier Property Group is the developer partner on the project.
10. Arcturis is the architect.

Great to see! 
Skyscrapers are overrated.

^When you can put them literally anywhere else Downtown (Millennium...), they certainly are.

Glad to see to this one saved!

Beyond the building being saved, which is a big win in itself, it's nice to see there will be no parking garage here. Parking will be handled most likely by the Busch East Garage.

I'm also interested in seeing a floor plan to see how this would work. Right now, you could technically have 80 apartments with exterior facing windows by having about 15 per floor on floors 2-6. The 7th could have 5 apartments. they'd have to be narrow though and maybe micro in size. They could be bigger if some units faced into the atrium of the building.

chriss752 wrote: ↑

Aug 22, 2020

Beyond the building being saved, which is a big win in itself, it's nice to see there will be no parking garage here. Parking will be handled most likely by the Busch East Garage.

I'm also interested in seeing a floor plan to see how this would work. Right now, you could technically have 80 apartments with exterior facing windows by having about 15 per floor on floors 2-6. The 7th could have 5 apartments. they'd have to be narrow though and maybe micro in size. They could be bigger if some units faced into the atrium of the building.

I'm sure that's the plan. There's really not much else they could do with that atrium space if all upper floors are residential. I'd expect to see small studio or 1 BR apartments with balconies into the atrium, with the main selling point for these units being access to the rooftop deck (along with ballpark proximity, obviously).

I don't understand why the retail space is only 3,800 SF, though. The ground floor is 13,672 SF. The historic half of the building should be roughly half of that, minus the elevator shaft. It seems like they would want to put as much of the residential lobby and common areas in the newer half of the building, saving as much of the historic half for what will be prime retail space...

Took two photos today. The building definitely needs a cleaning but this is a good time to see clearly where the addition is. The newer portion is much cleaner than the old.

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chriss752 wrote: ↑

Aug 22, 2020

Here are some clearer renderings. Some things to note about this project...

Not a great rendering job. They left out most of the architectural details of the building(s), and are showing the same glazing that's in there now. And the sloped roof of the new rooftop addition just looks like it's covered with asphalt shingles.

I was about to comment that I don't think people realize just how much better this building will look when they get rid of those horrendous '80s-office-building, single-pane, smoked-glass windows, and restore the original glazing style, but the rendering doesn't indicate that...

For reference: 

Yarger Design - 300 S Broadway

Thank god!

The project financial summary is in this month's LCRA agenda. They are seeking 10-year 90% property tax abatement. No other assistance is noted. 

Renovation cost is estimated to be around $15 million.

10 years - 90% is a low price to pay to save this beauty of a building

Elek.borrelli wrote: ↑

Aug 22, 2020

Hopefully, the city shrinks S. Broadway down to one lane and extends the sidewalks enough to allow outdoor restaurant space.

While that would be kind of cool, I can't possibly imagine that ever happening, especially given how much more congested it would make game day traffic.

Believe it or not the City does have a transportation plan for downtown that was completed in 2018

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/d ... Report.pdf

Can't help to think about Rawlings buying out Easton and how 300 S Broadway with its rendering of a future viewing deck looking into a storied MLB franchise would be a great HQ.  The chance came and went I guess.

imran wrote: ↑

Oct 23, 2020

Could we all agree to remember this when the next sparkly glass tower is proposed?

I second the motion.

Look what they've done with the old Tammany Hall HQ in New York:

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... eA27a2X4dU

Anyone know what’s going on?


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