Wash U plans to renovate the Lewis Center building on Kingsland into apartments (I guess they'll be moving the current art studios onto the main campus after the new Weil Hall is finished). Part of this building is in University Heights, who's neighbors put the kibosh on plans to build apartments on the site of the Delmar Harvard building just around the corner.

^Interesting. That's a very handsome little neoclassical palace there. The wayfinding in the basement makes me think someone somewhere was a stagehand once:



They've taken gaff tape stage markings and made them a design feature. (Hopefully it isn't actually gaff tape. Just looks like it.) . . . (Also, is any of it glowtape?)

Anyway . . . nice touch!

From the article: 

" . . . following a multimillion-dollar renovation, the 3.75-acre property encompasses: 93 residential units; offices and co-working spaces for TechArtista; a coffee shop and communal kitchen; and flexible classroom space, known as the studiolabs, for the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences."

^ nice. gotta say i'm a fan of TechArtista. i really have no interaction with co-working spaces, but a few years ago i hosted a small meeting of planetary science researchers in STL and we ended up renting a meeting room at the CWE TechArtista. the rate was very reasonable and the group really loved the space and the CWE in general. a couple of them said we should have more meetings in STL since it's so central and affordable. (that was before in-person meetings became extinct, of course.) one thing i realized while organizing that meeting is that the CWE could use a few more medium-tier hotels. now we've got the new one across from The Foundry and the new one behind the Chase as well.

urban_dilettante wrote:^ nice. gotta say i'm a fan of TechArtista. i really have no interaction with co-working spaces, but a few years ago i hosted a small meeting of planetary science researchers in STL and we ended up renting a meeting room at the CWE TechArtista. the rate was very reasonable and the group really loved the space and the CWE in general. a couple of them said we should have more meetings in STL since it's so central and affordable. (that was before in-person meetings became extinct, of course.) one thing i realized while organizing that meeting is that the CWE could use a few more medium-tier hotels. now we've got the new one across from The Foundry and the new one behind the Chase as well.

There's also the AC hotel under construction and the new Aloft in the Cortex!

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^ AC is the one behind Chase but i forgot about Aloft. in any case the number of hotels has about doubled since then.

"$38M Washington University mixed-use redevelopment Lewis Collaborative connects campus with TechArtista coworking space"

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/inn ... lding.html