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Over in the warehouse district of Fox Park...

quincunx wrote: ↑

Jul 31, 2021

Nextstl - Apartments Planned for 2528 Texas in Fox Park

An $8M building permit application has been submitted for multi-family conversion of 2528 Texas at Sidney in the Fox Park neighborhood. Blackline has the building under contract and plans to convert it into 78 apartments. They are seeking historic tax credits.

https://nextstl.com/2021/07/apartments- ... 528-texas/

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In 2019 this building was going to be something called Brick City Makes, light manufacturing of sorts but that didn’t happen and now Blackline has started construction on a 78 unit apartment renovation.

Michael Schwartz of Blackline announced on his Linkedin that 2528 Texas is a go.

Related: having lived in a building by same the developer I will say that quality of the renovation was sloppy and I know what all my neighbors watched on TV.

Kitchen counter wasn’t set right, dishwasher didn’t work(note that I was the first person to live in the unit), closet doors were cheap and kept falling off the track.

$8M building permit application submitted for office building by Rung for Women at 2717 Sidney

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Mar 28, 2022

In 2019 this building was going to be something called Brick City Makes, light manufacturing of sorts but that didn’t happen and now Blackline has started construction on a 78 unit apartment renovation.  

Website is active for this: https://www.kokenliving.com/

quincunx wrote: ↑

Jul 31, 2022

$8M building permit application submitted for office building by Rung for Women at 2717 Sidney

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^Love it. Hope this is a sign to come for the other warehouses in the area. This along with the Rung expansion, opening of new restaurants, and closing of the 711 puts that part of the city on a great trend. 

$7M building permit application submitted to rehab 2500 Ohio into residences and offices. Owner needs to pay their taxes.

2500 Ohio has a redevelopment plan. 68 apartments are planned by Blackline, with 50% of those units being set aside for people making below 80% AMI. This was announced on LinkedIn and Facebook. Really good to get Koken, 2311 Texas, and this building redeveloped. It won't be long till we see a new construction multi-family proposal here.

As a 13 year resident of this neighborhood, never thought I'd see this. Fantastic. And the Rung for Women expansion is going full steam ahead filling in the street wall. The hits keep on coming for Fox Park. Now it's time for infill on the scads of vacant lots, especially on Geyer Ave and the corner lots along California Ave (Geyer to Shenandoah).

Side note, a long vacant corner building at Accomac/Nebraska finally seems to be moving ahead. Always dreamed this would be retail space, but who knows, likely more of a residential conversion.

Greenfinch Theater & Dive will be moving into the former Way Out Club space on Jefferson.

Another win for Fox Park. 

Fox Park is doing great. It's amazing how the Jefferson/Gravois intersection and surrounding blocks are changing. Prob the most improved neighborhood since I moved to STL.

I'm hoping that we see more dominoes fall where the 7-Eleven just closed. Could be a great spot for some new infill. 

RockChalkSTL wrote: ↑

Feb 07, 2023

I'm hoping that we see more dominoes fall where the 7-Eleven just closed. Could be a great spot for some new infill. 

Oh heck yeah! Mow down the predatory lender locations and 7-11 and build housing. That would be a massive win. That and intra-neighborhood infill and Vatterott releasing their land to a quality developer.

sc4mayor wrote: ↑

Feb 07, 2023

Anyone have any progress photos of Rung or 2528 Texas?  Any movement on 2311 yet?  Unfortunately I don't often get down to Fox Park.

I'll see if I can take some tomorrow or over the weekend.  The work at Rung has moved amazingly fast.  I believe demo has started at 2528 Texas when I drove past yesterday.

What street is 2311 on?

Greg

2311 Texas

chriss752 wrote:2500 Ohio has a redevelopment plan. 68 apartments are planned by Blackline, with 50% of those units being set aside for people making below 80% AMI. This was announced on LinkedIn and Facebook. Really good to get Koken, 2311 Texas, and this building redeveloped. It won't be long till we see a new construction multi-family proposal here.
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That building used to be home to St. Louis Paint Co. My dad worked there for over 30 years. He met my mom there, too. Had many relatives work there, an aunt, a couple uncles, my grandfather, brother, and I had a job there one summer when I was a teen. It was really hard for my family when it went out of business, but I'm glad to see some solid plans for the building.

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shadrach wrote: ↑

Feb 11, 2023

Is that the one that used to have ‘Panda Paints’ on it? It’s been so long since I’ve been down there. I think those old ghost signs are gone, not sure.

The Panda Paints ghost signs are still there at Ohio and Sidney. The business, jobs and huffers are long gone. This is a good thing for the neighborhood.