A university with multiple campuses has purchased a former grocery store site near Lafayette Square for $4 million.
A.T. Still University, a health sciences university and medical school based in Kirksville, purchased 1500 Lafayette Ave., the site of one of the locations of local chain Fields Foods, which shut down last year, in January, according to sales data from Reonomy. The seller was St. Louis Food Hub LLC, which is organized by Chris Goodson, the owner of Fields Foods.

In addition to A.T. Still's Missouri campus in Kirksville, the school operates locations in Mesa, Arizona, and Santa Maria, California, according to its website. he university operates seven total schools, including a dental school in St. Louis, the Missouri School of Dentistry and Oral Health, at 1500 Park Ave. The Lafayette Square site, owned by A.T. Still, houses a 79,000-square-foot St. Louis-based school and a clinic, operated in collaboration with Affinia Healthcare, currently operates out of 1500 Park Ave., also in Lafayette Square.
The existing A.T. Still site is less than half a mile from the newly purchased property.
All the university’s campuses combined average total annual enrollment of more than 3,900 students from 20 countries, and the school has more than 1,300 employees, according to the school website.
A representative of the university did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Fields Foods reached six locations throughout the region, but stores began closing last year, as the grocery store chain laid off employees and was pursued for back rent by some of its landlords. Goodson tried to sell the chain to a new owner, but the remaining stores closed in September.

Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑

May 17, 2024

To be fair, I think very few people know what Peabody-Darst-Webbe is. Very few people would refer to the area as such. Even on Field’s website they don’t refer to PDW for that location. They say the store was located on the near South Side adjacent to Lafayette Square and Soulard.