Downtown West Infill and Rehab

STLrainbow · PostDec 04, 2022#512022-12-04T15:19+00:00

St. Louis Braid Co. Building (2035 Lucas) looks to be under contract so hopefully good news there. It's one of the classic former industrial/warehouse buildings that was bought last decade by that Sovereign Partners group from New York with plans for residential adaptive reuse. They also successfully sold the Butler Bros. but their Pennant Building aka Dragon Trading (1701 Locust) is still up for sale... they had a plan for 57 units for that one and were granted 10 yr. tax abatment.

Besides the Braid and Pennant buildings there really isn't much left of historic industrial/warehouse buildings in Downtown West available for residential conversion. AHM has a couple on the 2100 Locust block with firm multi-fam/office plans and Henschel Hat (1700 Olive) across from Butler Bros. is up for sale but I'm blanking on other classic candidates of any real size.

mikenewell48 · PostDec 04, 2022#522022-12-04T21:54+00:00

1700 Olive looks to me to be a hard sell. Plain unassuming building with ac units hanging out the windows. Possibly a re-do of that building could be combined with the former 7-11 lot (parking lot?)

debaliviere · PostDec 05, 2022#532022-12-05T14:39+00:00

STLrainbow wrote: ↑
Dec 04, 2022
St. Louis Braid Co. Building (2035 Locust) looks to be under contract so hopefully good news there.

Isn't this one on Lucas, or am I thinking of a different building?

STLrainbow · PostDec 05, 2022#542022-12-05T16:54+00:00

^ sorry, yes, Braid Co Building is 2035 Lucas and not 2035 Locust. (And St. Louis Braid Co should not be confused with St. Louis Bread Co.)

Tim · PostDec 07, 2022#552022-12-07T16:18+00:00

I'm always surprised by what is hidden inside some of these apparently vacant/underutilized buildings. This property is immediately east of the proposed AHM tower: https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2007-20 ... /27204934/

Suds · PostDec 07, 2022#562022-12-07T16:44+00:00

Tim wrote:I'm always surprised by what is hidden inside some of these apparently vacant/underutilized buildings. This property is immediately east of the proposed AHM tower: https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2007-20 ... /27204934/

Damn that space is incredible. Would never know it from the front of the building.

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robertn42 · PostDec 14, 2022#572022-12-14T18:11+00:00

I know that building. Would have never guess such an incredible space existed inside.

AHM Tower?

sc4mayor · PostDec 14, 2022#582022-12-14T18:18+00:00

^

ahm-2000-2100-locust-2100-washington-t12235.html

quincunx · PostApr 08, 2023#592023-04-08T19:09+00:00

What's cooking?

"The proposed vacation of the remaining 187-foot portion of the east-west 20-foot wide alley in City Block 938 as bounded by Delmar, 21st Street, Lucas Ave, and 22nd Street"

PostAug 10, 2023#602023-08-10T19:27+00:00

2301 Market is for sale for $4,386,500. That's the First Mid Bank & Trust ex Jefferson Bank building and surface parking.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2301-Ma ... /29232725/

STLinCHI · PostAug 10, 2023#612023-08-10T20:55+00:00

quincunx wrote: ↑
Aug 10, 2023
2301 Market is for sale for $4,386,500. That's the First Mid Bank & Trust ex Jefferson Bank building and surface parking.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2301-Ma ... /29232725/

Build right up to Market and there would be fantastic views of DT, mall and Arch. Hoping for some height here, not the typical 5 over 2. The new Kimpton might not be thrilled, however.

sc4mayor · PostAug 10, 2023#622023-08-10T21:08+00:00

quincunx wrote: ↑
Aug 10, 2023
2301 Market is for sale for $4,386,500. That's the First Mid Bank & Trust ex Jefferson Bank building and surface parking.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2301-Ma ... /29232725/

That’s not a bad looking Mid-Century building as is…maybe build a taller addition on the parking lot.

Tim · PostAug 11, 2023#632023-08-11T02:44+00:00

This is way too expensive, or not?

quincunx · PostAug 12, 2023#642023-08-12T16:59+00:00

$1M building permit application submitted for 1228-36 Washington to rehab the third floor apartments.

PostDec 02, 2024#652024-12-02T02:42+00:00

$31M building permit application submitted for 2300 Locust. As we heard back in August, Tierpoint is turning the building into a data center.

Black02AltimaSE · PostDec 03, 2024#662024-12-03T14:57+00:00

^Are they going to have to tear the streets up for new power and data infrastructure?

GoHarvOrGoHome · PostDec 03, 2024#672024-12-03T15:34+00:00

Data center is such a lame project

delmar2debaliviere2downtown · PostDec 03, 2024#682024-12-03T16:06+00:00

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑
Dec 03, 2024
Data center is such a lame project

Chicago, Dallas downtowns have so many of these. KC has a lot too. Just does not add much to a downtown area. FOR ONCE, these are one of the things that actually make sense to go in suburban office parks.

This should have been a residential conversion, as Locust to the west is slowly becoming a solid mixed use street, next to a future light rail, and smack dab in the middle of a district that we are trying to build into more than just a soccer park.

metzgdaSTL · PostDec 03, 2024#692024-12-03T19:52+00:00

As an urbanist I agree that this isn't the ideal use for this building. However, for a couple reasons I support this and hope others see the benefit.

1. It ensures the building won't be vacant long term and left for possible vandalism and deterioration in a downtown that doesn't have a lot of demand.
2. It's being bought by a local STL-HQ'd business, TierPoint, that is growing and expanding. TierPoint supports a lot of local businesses and Jerry Kent, CEO, is a big STL-booster and philanthrapist.
3. As others noted, even in high demand urban areas of Chicago, Dallas, Seattle for example, it's common to have DC operators take space in buildings for Data Centers. They tend to be best connected to carrier hotels and offer low latency on-ramps to public cloud operators.

delmar2debaliviere2downtown · PostFeb 07, 2025#702025-02-07T17:24+00:00

Anyone know plans for 1422 Delmar? There’s demo to the garage. Probably a historic building under all that horrible paint because you could still see some mason details under it but the owners had already ruined it in many ways so not upset about it the demo. It’s one massive surface lot with this one level garage on top of it next to city museum.

I always hated this lot because the one story garage had a big sign “X # of recent car break ins on lots in this area, park here secure!” and a huge fathead type security guard image on it. What a great welcome to our city

Hoping the owner wants to sell

I would start going after these parking LLCs that are a blight on our city

Tim · PostFeb 07, 2025#712025-02-07T22:52+00:00

According to the city's website, the building was built in 1917. I agree, there appear to have been some interesting masonry details below all that paint.

Unfortunately, it appears that this building was just outside of the historic district.

delmar2debaliviere2downtown · PostFeb 07, 2025#722025-02-07T23:00+00:00

Ruin historic brick building, make it unnecessary parking, make it as ugly as possible, disparage safety in the city with signage, tear down said historic building amongst the sea of surface lots - wow, just an outstanding property owner right here.

Applause for the bang up job. This one deserves a standing ovation

Please be selling this land

GoHarvOrGoHome · PostJun 17, 2025#732025-06-17T14:34+00:00

Work on the data center high rise at 2300 Locust is in full swing. Boooooooo

quincunx · PostJul 13, 2025#742025-07-13T01:07+00:00

quincunx wrote: ↑
Dec 02, 2024
$31M building permit application submitted for 2300 Locust. As we heard back in August, Tierpoint is turning the building into a data center.

Issued

JaneJacobsGhost · PostJul 14, 2025#752025-07-14T01:12+00:00

We should levy higher property taxes on data centers

Downtown West Infill and Rehab

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