Columbus Square gets a face-lift, new name
By Charlene Prost
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/21/2005
Queen Bryant, a 13-year resident at Columbus Square, said she's never seen anything like what's going on there these days.
For starters, there's a new name. The complex just north of downtown now is Courtyards at Cityside.
"They've completely redone the exterior and resurfaced parking lots," said Bryant. "They've been replacing central air-conditioning units, putting in new carpeting, new refrigerators, and redoing everything inside the apartments. They're making a lot of wonderful changes here."
What's under way is more than $2 million worth of repairs and renovations - the most extensive face-lift yet - for the 332-unit apartment complex, which was built in the early 1980s.
Designed townhouse-style, it was built by the late Leon Strauss' Pantheon Corp. Columbus Square was the first new housing in the downtown area since Mansion House Center was built in the mid-1960s; it's still one of the largest apartment complexes.
Banc of America's Community Development Corp. bought it last year from Meridian Realty Advisors in Dallas. What bank officials saw was a complex that fit the mission of the for-profit corporation, formed in the late 1970s to buy and develop properties for affordable housing.
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By Charlene Prost
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/21/2005
Queen Bryant, a 13-year resident at Columbus Square, said she's never seen anything like what's going on there these days.
For starters, there's a new name. The complex just north of downtown now is Courtyards at Cityside.
"They've completely redone the exterior and resurfaced parking lots," said Bryant. "They've been replacing central air-conditioning units, putting in new carpeting, new refrigerators, and redoing everything inside the apartments. They're making a lot of wonderful changes here."
What's under way is more than $2 million worth of repairs and renovations - the most extensive face-lift yet - for the 332-unit apartment complex, which was built in the early 1980s.
Designed townhouse-style, it was built by the late Leon Strauss' Pantheon Corp. Columbus Square was the first new housing in the downtown area since Mansion House Center was built in the mid-1960s; it's still one of the largest apartment complexes.
Banc of America's Community Development Corp. bought it last year from Meridian Realty Advisors in Dallas. What bank officials saw was a complex that fit the mission of the for-profit corporation, formed in the late 1970s to buy and develop properties for affordable housing.
Read Moore
Website
