Field Hockey field started construction this week. They are moving fast
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MASSIVE redevelopment opportunity for St. Louis to add housing and create tax revenue. Good on SLU to free this land up.
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... -i-44.html
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https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... -i-44.html
Does the SLU still use that building at the corner of Lafayette and Grand for the college of public health & social justice? Curious about if that's been moved or will move.
Nope, that college moved into the Wool Center at Olive/Grand last year. Salus Center is basically unoccupied. And from what I understand, it's likely not re-adaptable for any sort of re-use... it's run through it's lifecycle. I'd imagine it gets razed by whoever buys this. It's not an architecturally compelling building, but I'd hope that something of a similar massing could be proposed/built there.
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Whats with that weird parcel of grass in the parking lot on Park Ave?
Interesting, agreed. Its a pretty unremarkable building, I just want whatever replaces it to be built up to the sidewalk on Grand (and I will tear out every single one of the hairs on my head if QT is allowed to have it).jtlq53 wrote: ↑Jul 10, 2025Nope, that college moved into the Wool Center at Olive/Grand last year. Salus Center is basically unoccupied. And from what I understand, it's likely not re-adaptable for any sort of re-use... it's run through it's lifecycle. I'd imagine it gets razed by whoever buys this. It's not an architecturally compelling building, but I'd hope that something of a similar massing could be proposed/built there.
Here's the historic aerial from 1971 (at bottom the land for I-44 had been cleared by that point but the interstate not yet built). Looks like the houses were gradually all demo'd between the 1970s and 1990s, and the streets subsequently vacated. Would be amazing to see Theresa, Eads and Henrietta reconnected and the grid restored but I've yet to see a STL superblock undone and the city can barely maintain the streets that already exist so I won't hold my breath.mjbais1489 wrote: ↑Jul 10, 2025Whats with that weird parcel of grass in the parking lot on Park Ave?
Don't know if I care if the streets are reconnected, but I would like to see them extended and more houses (SFHs or 2 family or even 4 family would be fine) built on the grass lot and the parking lot. Then where the old school building is, redeveloped into a hotel.
This has McBride written all over it. They did the homes to the west, and also more homes in the Hill coming soon near Hampton.
Not that they are my preferred builder, but I can picture them working here.
Not that they are my preferred builder, but I can picture them working here.
Ugh Mcbride's homes are so ugly. Who's building the new homes and condos just north of this site? UIC?
UIC & others. UIC merged w/ Bush construction. Idk if single family is in their realm anymore. They did a dozen-ish homes a year. Numbers are tough to pencil out and they need land on the south side for their model to work. McBride is all about scale and minimal design variations. wHy uSe an arChitecT