Central West End Year End Review

roger wyoming II · PostDec 15, 2014#12014-12-15T23:27+00:00

While only a fraction of the overall projects in the pipeline were completed this year, It probably has been decades since any neighborhood in the city has seen such progress as the CWE this past year, including...

Completed
Lacledes Lofts - rehab of 3965 Laclede (50 units)
@4240 - Cortex rehab
New I-64 bridges/Tower Grove Interchange
St. John's UMC conversion into Link Auction Galleries - 5000 Washington (at Kingshighway)

Under Construction
City Walk/Whole Foods mixed-use (177 units)
West Pine Lofts - 4034. W. Pine (206 units) (new construction)
"The Standard" - 3853 Forest Park Ave. (164 unit, 465 bed new residential) (technically Midtown)
Gerhart Block mixed-use renovation (17 units)
IKEA - Cortex
WUMC McKinley Research Building (Taylor & McKinley)
WUMC Environmental Health & Safety (Clayton & McKinley)
STLCOP Phase I (Taylor and Parkview Place)
BJC Kingshighway building tear-downs and replacements
Shriner's Hospital - 4440 Clayton Avenue (formerly surface parking)
Cortex Commons (Boyle and Clayton)
Rosati-Kain High School expansion

Planned
4100 Lindell (Remington Rand Mid-Modern) renovation into mixed-use (16 units)
4242 Lindell - residential rehab of commercial building (24 units)
4643 Lindell mixed-use tower (217 units)
Cortex Silo Lofts - 200+ units plus ground floor retail
Cortex TechShop (Brauer Building renovation - Boyle & FPP)
Cortex Metrolink stop (Boyle St.)
Conversion of vacant CWE church into Cathedral Square Brewery (500 N. Kingshighway)

If my math is right, I get 400 units under construction plus the Station student project and at least that much planned.

cteclipse · PostDec 29, 2014#22014-12-29T15:09+00:00

Very happy to have bought our first condo in the CWE (not a highrise) and excited to see what 2015 brings!

DogtownBnR · PostJan 08, 2015#32015-01-08T19:08+00:00

^^Sure looks like, from your list, that the outlook is "bleak" in St. Louis.... All gloom and doom!!!

roger wyoming II · PostJan 08, 2015#42015-01-08T19:17+00:00

^ nothing ever happens in this bleaker version of KC.

wabash · PostJan 09, 2015#52015-01-09T07:02+00:00

Congrats cteclipse. Seems like a savvy move with everything going on there. Although now you'll have to change your handle to cweclipse.

roger wyoming II · PostJan 09, 2015#62015-01-09T14:32+00:00

cteclipse wrote:Very happy to have bought our first condo in the CWE (not a highrise) and excited to see what 2015 brings!

congrats! btw, curious if you were you in CWE or the city previously?

cteclipse · PostJan 09, 2015#72015-01-09T23:02+00:00

Thank you! I'm from Buffalo NY, went to flight school in 2005-07 in Alton, IL, I visited the city, CWE, and forest park quite often. After travelling the world and moving around the country in 2012 my fiancé and I decided to move to St. Louis, could have moved anywhere in the US. Forest Park and CWE are really what sold us. Last 2 years we lived in the Loop, CWE/Debalievre, CWE, and just bought our place here on Buckingham Ct. Every time I walk through this neighborhood I smile.

roger wyoming II · PostJan 09, 2015#82015-01-09T23:14+00:00

cheers to you and your partner! we should all buy you two a drink and put you in marketing materials.

cteclipse · PostJan 10, 2015#92015-01-10T18:05+00:00

Hey I'm just glad this neighborhood got some national recognition this year

roger wyoming II · PostAug 19, 2015#102015-08-19T17:09+00:00

2015 Update: Nothing going on in this crappy neighborhood.

Presbyterian · PostAug 20, 2015#112015-08-20T17:35+00:00

roger wyoming II wrote:2015 Update: Nothing going on in this crappy neighborhood.

Yes. Not a single new tower over sixty stories, no new shopping malls or amusement parks or MLS stadiums or aquariums or space stations or terraformed asteroids or fast food joints in the entire neighborhood all year long.

It's terrible.

roger wyoming II · PostAug 20, 2015#122015-08-20T17:48+00:00

^ I hear the last person remaining is being instructed on how to turn out the lights.

urban_dilettante · PostAug 20, 2015#132015-08-20T23:02+00:00

^ and they're probably getting a damn TIF for it!

jcity · PostAug 21, 2015#142015-08-21T19:52+00:00

CTeclipse, welcome to St. Louis! love hearing stories like this. The CWE is the best neighborhood in St. Louis! So much is going on!

and Urban, sadly, TIF's are needed to make numbers work when the construction costs are so high when compared to the leasing rates developers get back.. when can we become RTW? ha, even the Whole Foods here was pushed to unionize.. hahaha

urban_dilettante · PostAug 21, 2015#152015-08-21T22:34+00:00

jcity, it was sarcasm—i'm generally not opposed to TIFs for residential, though I find the Optimist TIF (not residential) a little disconcerting given what happened with the Covington proposal. concerning RTW, no thanks. and FYI there were pushes to unionize Whole Foods all across the country.

chaifetz10 · PostAug 22, 2015#162015-08-22T00:37+00:00

Not a single new QT? What about new parking lot? At the very least they can widen Lindell and increase the speed!

wabash · PostAug 22, 2015#172015-08-22T01:55+00:00

^No parking? No gas? The CWE is so screwed.

Seriously though, as soon as the new Boyle Station is completed, the CWE station should be rebuilt and taken to the next level (full roof, extra-wide platform, newsstand, etc...). The continued expansion of BJC and STLCOP, new office building directly above he tracks, and increased residential and retail density along Euclid will have that station humming more than ever.

KerrytheKonstructor · PostAug 22, 2015#182015-08-22T07:58+00:00

I'll get my hammer and nails out right away.

Oh yay, the S. K'sway QT is open. Somebody tear the Laclede & Newstead BP down quick and build a skinny pencil tower pronto.

roger wyoming II · PostAug 22, 2015#192015-08-22T13:36+00:00

^ It's open? Tears of joy & handclapping emojii! Take that, CWE! You're a board up neighborhood!

framer · PostOct 09, 2015#202015-10-09T16:17+00:00

Not sure where to put this, but the Post had an update on residential construction around IKEA:

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... 05260.html

And Alex had a major summary of Central Corridor construction:

http://nextstl.com/2015/10/central-corr ... s-housing/

roger wyoming II · PostOct 09, 2015#212015-10-09T20:15+00:00

Nice to see the Gerhardt Block is getting some retail commitments already but I hope it can bring some more than just food and drink... a local boutique or similar would be great. Maybe an Amazon "Pick-Up" Shop that the company is starting to build on/near college campuses.

wabash · PostDec 09, 2015#222015-12-09T04:51+00:00

Incredible watching the CWE project proposals continue to get rolled out. It's really exciting and encouraging watching everything that's going on there.

The last development cycle was defined by the Downtown renaissance, with CWE and Clayton playing secondary rolls, while the CWE is increasingly defining this one, with Clayton and Downtown along for the ride.

framer · PostDec 22, 2015#232015-12-22T04:37+00:00

Nice little article in the West End Word about all the new construction in the CWE and The Grove:

http://www.westendword.com/Articles-Fea ... Grove.html

wabash · PostDec 22, 2015#242015-12-22T06:25+00:00

Nice shot of The Orion in there:

And this heart warming statistic:
• Residential and mixed-use projects are too numerous to name.

moorlander · PostDec 22, 2015#252015-12-22T14:14+00:00

wabash wrote:And this heart warming statistic:
Residential and mixed-use projects are too numerous to name.