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quincunx wrote: ↑

Dec 29, 2020

A developer would have to seek no local tax breaks, perhaps offer a sweetener of sorts, CBA or some such, and fund a campaign.

How can we get CBAs back on the Alderman agendas? (Probably its own topic thread...)

• Board Bill Number 61 | Session 2017-2018 (Green): https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/internal-app ... 1-wd15.pdf
• Board Bill Number 11 | Session 2017-2018 (Reed): https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/internal-app ... 1-pres.pdf

dredger wrote: ↑

Dec 29, 2020

KansasCitian wrote: ↑

Dec 29, 2020

framer wrote:Curious about the green patch: I assume it's controlled by MODOT, but is some of it potentially available for development? 

I was wondering the same thing about that green patch. That pedestrian bridge between the Grove and the Central West End makes that area seem pretty attractive to me.

I don't know if MODOT would allow anything there, but the land obviously seems spacious enough to hold something, and I think it would be successful.

I always thought that the pedestrian bridge would make way for a wider corridor incorporating a north - south modern low floor streetcar line running down Euclid through CWE/Barnes/Wash U, a new bridge where the pedestrian bridge is currently located and then hang a left at Chouteau through FPSE and could eventually tie into Iron HIll/SSM/SLU med campus   

A streetcar you say? Of course we once had one along Euclid ( welp) - pic from Twitter today

imran wrote: ↑

Dec 26, 2020

Hi,
7 properties for 1 million comes to avg 142 K per property
I agree that the sale price impacts the cash flow post rehab but these are not extraordinary numbers
Don't forget that a developer can leverage historic tax credits as well.
There is a way.... if there is a will

I am intrigued though and will go by to see/photograph just how bad the crumbling foundations are.

One of the buildings (yellow) has surface bricks missing off its back wall ( most of these are three bricks deep) seems like the efforts of brick thieves
The worst building is on the end ( red) where parts of the back have fallen off. Note in the side view that all the other angles and roofline remain unaltered. These are not load bearing walls.
None of the visible foundations are crumbling. They are made of solid stone blocks ( white arrows)

I know the ‘too far gone to save’ narrative will be invoked by developers in days to come. Let’s keep the conversation honest.

Even though purist preservationists look down on 'Facadism', I've seen some really good examples. 

Hearing that all the Drury property was sold to another developer.