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Dogtown- Mid-America Transplant Foundation Family House

Dogtown- Mid-America Transplant Foundation Family House

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PostApr 22, 2021#1

"The Mid-America Transplant Foundation will break ground Friday on a 34,000-square-foot Family House in a residential area on Lloyd Avenue, a couple blocks west of Hampton Avenue. The house is expected to open in March 2022."

Lloyd runs west between the former Denny's and rehabbed Gartiot school/apartments just north of Manchester.  Geo STL says that Mid-America Transplant Foundation owns a lot that's about an acre behind the old Denny's.  There are a couple of small single family homes there.  
Surprised if there was no pushback on this from the neighborhood.  Hampton is obviously busy commercial properties, but it's single family homes immediately behind those.  This is a three-story apartment building.  I think the Carpenters Union built a health clinic behind their building in the last year or two, so maybe the residents don't mind something other than single family.

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea ... the-latest

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PostApr 23, 2021#2

Not a bad looking building (based on this crude rendering, anyway):


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PostApr 23, 2021#3

Nice project.

Also, in celebration of Earth Day this week, I'm glad to see the shade overhangs. Why more new buildings don't incorporate basic environmental design principles such as these is beyond me, especially on buildings with large south-facing facades. Simple overhangs shade the building during the warmer months of the year, but allow the sun to enter during the colder months. It's so simple it's stupid (the sun is high in the summer, low in the winter). But I digress, I'm just a big passive-solar design advocate. The amount of money and resources wasted to heat and cool buildings that simply could have been oriented differently or shaded properly is egregious.

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PostApr 23, 2021#4

^absolutely agree. A lot of environmental value is being left on the table because developers/builders lazily lean on technology instead of using architectural wisdom that had been common sense for centuries.

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PostSep 05, 2021#5


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PostSep 15, 2021#6

In the movie "White Palace", Susan Sarandon's house was on this spot.