New owners plan to renovate the three taller buildings to the easte for residential and demo the corner one and replace with a new retail building.
https://nextstl.com/2016/04/913-923-locust/
https://nextstl.com/2016/04/913-923-locust/
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Yeah, and from initial things I am hearing, it won't be much of a commercial building. Let's hope plans develop to include tenovation of the Noonan-Kocian gallery building.
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I am really, REALLY excited to hear about this project. Very cool buildings.
Wasn't it you who did the fab peace on the history of the art gallery? That blog post needs to be sent to the new owners so they might get a clue.Presbyterian wrote:Yeah, and from initial things I am hearing, it won't be much of a commercial building. Let's hope plans develop to include tenovation of the Noonan-Kocian gallery building.
I walked by these buildings today during lunch hour. This has always been a dreary stretch. Those buildings and the Alverne—something about the dark brick and soot reminds and the desolation reminds me of coal towns in England.
Hopefully, the developers will look at planting some trees, adding greenery, banners/flags, something. Odd, there's no street lights or any sort of urban furniture along that block.
Hopefully, the developers will look at planting some trees, adding greenery, banners/flags, something. Odd, there's no street lights or any sort of urban furniture along that block.
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Yeah, that was my first NextStl piece. I'm hearing the developer wants to demolish it, but the city is requiring *something* be built. Probably a one story building.imran wrote:Wasn't it you who did the fab peace on the history of the art gallery? That blog post needs to be sent to the new owners so they might get a clue.Presbyterian wrote:Yeah, and from initial things I am hearing, it won't be much of a commercial building. Let's hope plans develop to include tenovation of the Noonan-Kocian gallery building.
Ugh! I wish it would be as tall as the Farm Home (?) building to the block west. Or the adjacent building to the east.
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was on a no-call jury duty the past two days with long lunch breaks so I walked around quite a bit... very depressing how much work needs to be done with our streetscapes.shadrach wrote:I walked by these buildings today during lunch hour. This has always been a dreary stretch. Those buildings and the Alverne—something about the dark brick and soot reminds and the desolation reminds me of coal towns in England.
Hopefully, the developers will look at planting some trees, adding greenery, banners/flags, something. Odd, there's no street lights or any sort of urban furniture along that block.
More details with possible good rehab news!
http://www.stltoday.com/business/column ... e5d21.html
Knoble said TWG's plans are preliminary. Current thinking calls for 85 to 90 apartments, he said. What will happen to the small building at 10th and Locust has yet to be determined. Knoble said it will be rehabbed or replaced with a new building. He said he believes that corner is an excellent location for a restaurant.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/column ... e5d21.html
Knoble said TWG's plans are preliminary. Current thinking calls for 85 to 90 apartments, he said. What will happen to the small building at 10th and Locust has yet to be determined. Knoble said it will be rehabbed or replaced with a new building. He said he believes that corner is an excellent location for a restaurant.
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Looks like the plan is to demolish and replace... image from the STLtoday article on the Chemical plans
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http://www.stltoday.com/business/column ... user-share
Edit... at first blush I thought it was a re-skin of the re-skin instead of an entirely new building. uugh.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/column ... user-share
Edit... at first blush I thought it was a re-skin of the re-skin instead of an entirely new building. uugh.
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Being my best optimist: materials and finishes matter, retaining the scale of the existing building is nice/interesting.
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It doesn't retain the vertical scale though. It's about a third shorter. Everything about this rendering is absolutely awful.Alex Ihnen wrote:Being my best optimist: materials and finishes matter, retaining the scale of the existing building is nice/interesting.
I've always said: "Sketchup is bland as ketchup"
Never "always said" that, just said it now for the first time.
Never "always said" that, just said it now for the first time.
That's quite literally the worst bit of architectural presentation I've ever seen.
^I think the sheer ugliness of the building has them all in a state of shock. Once you've seen it, you can't look away.
You know those older brick buildings where the owner didn't want to pay for custom replacement windows so he just buys cheap mass-produced windows and builds a cheap wood frame in the window holes to mount them? This rendering looks like the building's going to start out with wrong-sized windows.
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New renderings and BID packet on x-Rhodes.com
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^ I guess this means one of two things... they don't know what to with 923 yet or they plan on demo.
Ooh, thanks for that! There's a ton of detailed info there that wasn't aware were publicly available.
So yeah, per this document 923 isn't part of this bid. And document 37 note 19 states they're planning for the west wall to have a "cementious coating to be applied over the area by previously demolished 923 Locust."
So, there you have it.
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According to document 18 they plan cut new windows into the west wall for 3rd-floor apartments. These would sit lower than the current roofline of 923.
So if they're planning to build anything at all on the corner it'd be 1-story at best. My completely uneducated, speculative, rather cynical guess is that it'll become a parking lot.
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So if they're planning to build anything at all on the corner it'd be 1-story at best. My completely uneducated, speculative, rather cynical guess is that it'll become a parking lot.
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