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I think I see a gate/driveway just to the east of the building that I guess will feed into yet another surface lot.
I think I see a gate/driveway just to the east of the building that I guess will feed into yet another surface lot.
Does Boyle look enormous to anyone else?
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It's too bad the Brauer isn't being saved, but I think the building is a worthy replacement.
It's too bad the Brauer isn't being saved, but I think the building is a worthy replacement.
All hail the low-slung office park where suburbanites might finally feel safe when visiting the City.
Yeah, I know. It could be worse. Like a QuickTrip or something.
Yeah, I know. It could be worse. Like a QuickTrip or something.
I wouldn't be surprised if their was demand for this building to go taller. I also think design works but think that having a slender five story instead of three story would be just enough to truly make it distinguishable but not over kill.
At some point CORTEX needs to add some variation in height as I think Imran has very good point.
At some point CORTEX needs to add some variation in height as I think Imran has very good point.
That does look nice! And I'd be entirely cool with the future cafe actually being called "Future Cafe". 
Personally, I get what Cannon and Cortex were trying to do with the design - uniformity.
While the building is small, I do like the fact the building will help to change and update (modernize) the Midtown landscape.
There's only so much design you can do with a 60,000 square foot building.
Perhaps the kind of work and instruction TechShop does requires larger floor plates, but with smaller floor plates, Cortex could have had a slightly taller building - especially with an attached parking facility.
3 floors X 20,000sf each = 60,000
4 floors X 15,000sf each = 60,000
5 floors X 12,000sf each = 60,000
6 floors X 10,000sf each = 60,000
While the building is small, I do like the fact the building will help to change and update (modernize) the Midtown landscape.
There's only so much design you can do with a 60,000 square foot building.
Perhaps the kind of work and instruction TechShop does requires larger floor plates, but with smaller floor plates, Cortex could have had a slightly taller building - especially with an attached parking facility.
3 floors X 20,000sf each = 60,000
4 floors X 15,000sf each = 60,000
5 floors X 12,000sf each = 60,000
6 floors X 10,000sf each = 60,000
I really think one or two more floors added would make this a great building for the corner.
Also, looking at the future café. Why not a semi private rooftop garden/park on top of the future café for the employees? outdoor work spaces with outlets, wind breaks etc. Nice day out, take yourself and laptop outside without having to be in a purely public space or worry about the battery going dead
Also, looking at the future café. Why not a semi private rooftop garden/park on top of the future café for the employees? outdoor work spaces with outlets, wind breaks etc. Nice day out, take yourself and laptop outside without having to be in a purely public space or worry about the battery going dead
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Can/should we expect to see taller buildings go up in Cortex in the future, or are low-rise structures preferable to the type of users Cortex is trying to attract?
It would be great to see some more height in the district, particularly along 40/64.
It would be great to see some more height in the district, particularly along 40/64.
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^ We'll have to see how the SIlo Lofts and Custom Metals sites work out, but my guess that we'll see a bit more height there but probably no towers. I recall buildings in the 4-5 story range for the Custom Metals rendering so I wouldn't be surprised to see that.... maybe more for Silo Lofts for what they have in mind. I suppose any hotel site would be a good candidate for at least decent mid-rise (they had a tower for what I think may have been hotel at the Brauer Building site but that obviously didn't proceed.)
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Which building is the one with the rotating "@" sign on the roof? I saw it in passing the other day.
Edit: VVV Thanks!
Edit: VVV Thanks!
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@4240.... that is the historic rehab that has the main CIC presence... except for the coffee shop/retail portion the building is pretty much filled up and employing about 450 people. Neat building and I can't wait for Boyle St. and the Commons to be completed.
Biotech is huge out here in the Bay and wish some how, some way CORTEX could convince some of these companies to entertain the idea making a home or at least finding an alternative. At some point the business model of being in the Bay Area becomes broken on sheer cost of space, wages, and housings. Heck, a business morning report noted that a 291 square foot studio in San Fran sold for $417,000 cash and the median square footage cost is now at $1,007.
My answer to a San Francisco Business journal article? St. Louis.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco ... stion.html
The problem? Space. In some Peninsula submarkets, vacancy rates are 1 percent to 1.5 percent, or
My answer to a San Francisco Business journal article? St. Louis.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco ... stion.html
The problem? Space. In some Peninsula submarkets, vacancy rates are 1 percent to 1.5 percent, or
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There was a CORTEX conceptual rendering out there for a tall building at the northeast corner of the Commons (next to the future cafe). I've heard they would love to attract a hotel developer for that site. But I haven't heard anything concrete or anything recent.debaliviere wrote:Can/should we expect to see taller buildings go up in Cortex in the future?
^ I would take either the Northeast corner of the Commons or Drury's original FPSE rendering of their hotel at the Kingshighway/I64 interchange.
Another possibility that I wouldn't be surprise is a larger, more prominent tower at the corner of Forest Park/Vande that is anchored with City Target going back to Geoff's post Nextstl or maybe it was a premature leak that got someone canned, who knows. I think a slender tower of 10-15 stories on the corner of Forest Park/Vande would be great fit and a good way to break up the skyline whether it be residential or hotel tower without taking away the rest of the CWE skyline
Personally, would love to see a slender residential tower on top of the City Target site at the corner of Vande, the Silo loft location re-purposed for more office/lab space/or a single use tenant and a hotel tower near the commons along Boyle. Three spots, three uses.
Another possibility that I wouldn't be surprise is a larger, more prominent tower at the corner of Forest Park/Vande that is anchored with City Target going back to Geoff's post Nextstl or maybe it was a premature leak that got someone canned, who knows. I think a slender tower of 10-15 stories on the corner of Forest Park/Vande would be great fit and a good way to break up the skyline whether it be residential or hotel tower without taking away the rest of the CWE skyline
Personally, would love to see a slender residential tower on top of the City Target site at the corner of Vande, the Silo loft location re-purposed for more office/lab space/or a single use tenant and a hotel tower near the commons along Boyle. Three spots, three uses.
Had a meeting yesterday with an L3 client to tour CORTEX with Dennis Lower. What they've already accomplished and what they're planning to develop in the next couple years is simply astounding. TechShop building looks great and will have a very marketable restaurant space. The blue metals building will have 4 large buildings on it. The parking lot between the main CORTEX building and DuPont will be a large building. Cool urban hotel just east of the TechShop building. Almost all these will have first floor retail. MetroLink and so on.
With BJC/Wash U Med School, IKEA, Whole Foods, Lindell Residences, Shriners, College of Pharmacy, and the other surround development like all the student housing projects/apartments plus CORTEX - our client was absolutely blown away. The area has as much going on as anywhere in the Midwest outside of Downtown Chicago.
Also, I don't think there are immediate plans for the Silo Lofts site which I think is very smart. That's the key piece. If I were them, I'd wait for all the other main parcels to develop and do that site once the perfect user and development plan comes to fruition.
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With BJC/Wash U Med School, IKEA, Whole Foods, Lindell Residences, Shriners, College of Pharmacy, and the other surround development like all the student housing projects/apartments plus CORTEX - our client was absolutely blown away. The area has as much going on as anywhere in the Midwest outside of Downtown Chicago.
Also, I don't think there are immediate plans for the Silo Lofts site which I think is very smart. That's the key piece. If I were them, I'd wait for all the other main parcels to develop and do that site once the perfect user and development plan comes to fruition.
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Great KMOX story on AB Mauri's move to Cortex from the burbs and how that move has been able to get top-notch talent for this Aussie-based company.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/04/17/ ... b-to-city/
“I’m very, very confident that we wouldn’t have attracted the caliber of people we are attracting had we not made the move,” Prendergast says.
He adds that in result of the move it was easy to receive three key hires to move from London, San Diego and Portland.
City leaders need to pound that message.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/04/17/ ... b-to-city/
“I’m very, very confident that we wouldn’t have attracted the caliber of people we are attracting had we not made the move,” Prendergast says.
He adds that in result of the move it was easy to receive three key hires to move from London, San Diego and Portland.
City leaders need to pound that message.
^^^ kb, thanks so much for that update.... I was not aware of future plans for a new building to go on the Cortex One parking lot. I can also see holding off on Silo Lofts if things are rapidly moving forward in other parts to make sure they get the biggest bang for the buck.... would hate for them ultimately to go too small with mixed-use there. Here is the rendering of the mixed-use Metals site, btw,that also shows the hotel tower at the upper right
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At first I was thinking the tower was where Future Café is now going and so thought they were dropping that but now I see it actually would be next to it and would replace some existing older buildings.... I really, really hope they re-utilize the Crescent to preserve at least some historic character in the area besides @4240.
At first I was thinking the tower was where Future Café is now going and so thought they were dropping that but now I see it actually would be next to it and would replace some existing older buildings.... I really, really hope they re-utilize the Crescent to preserve at least some historic character in the area besides @4240.
Quick, send this to World Wide Technology, ASAP!roger wyoming II wrote:Great KMOX story on AB Mauri's move to Cortex from the burbs and how that move has been able to get top-notch talent for this Aussie-based company.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/04/17/ ... b-to-city/
“I’m very, very confident that we wouldn’t have attracted the caliber of people we are attracting had we not made the move,” Prendergast says.
He adds that in result of the move it was easy to receive three key hires to move from London, San Diego and Portland.
City leaders need to pound that message.
Actually, the parking lot between Cortex I and Du Pont could be perfect for them. Right in the heart of Cortex, right on the Commons, across the street from the proposed hotel, two blocks from MetroLink, with room for expansion within the neighborhood. A 15 or 20 story building would really make a statement.
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@4240 is expanding out on to an existing parking lot with a modest new wing.
Form Today's BJ
"Just about 10,000 square feet of office space remains on the market at the @4240 building in the Cortex innovation district. Space has been gobbled up quicker than initially thought — the building opened just eight months ago.
So Wexford Science + Technology, the developer of the building, is adding to it by turning the 17,000 square feet of space in its southside, open-air parking area into more office space."
I also found this very interesting....
"The next development is a seven-acre project on the site of the U.S. Metals and Supply building, which sits directly east of @4240, where Wexford plans three technology-related buildings totaling more than 500,000 square feet of office space, a residential building and a parking lot that would support most of the Cortex district. “Wexford is aggressively pursuing an anchor tenant to launch one of those buildings,” Lower said."
Read more here..
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/prin ... 1431089690
Form Today's BJ
"Just about 10,000 square feet of office space remains on the market at the @4240 building in the Cortex innovation district. Space has been gobbled up quicker than initially thought — the building opened just eight months ago.
So Wexford Science + Technology, the developer of the building, is adding to it by turning the 17,000 square feet of space in its southside, open-air parking area into more office space."
I also found this very interesting....
"The next development is a seven-acre project on the site of the U.S. Metals and Supply building, which sits directly east of @4240, where Wexford plans three technology-related buildings totaling more than 500,000 square feet of office space, a residential building and a parking lot that would support most of the Cortex district. “Wexford is aggressively pursuing an anchor tenant to launch one of those buildings,” Lower said."
Read more here..
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/prin ... 1431089690
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^ that's awesome. And CIC also has built out more space in the CEC building so things have been going spectacularly well. If Wexford is able to land a marquee anchor for US Metals it could be game-changing.... whatever happens to that parcel of land will have huge consequences for the future of our city.