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Were you able to take any pictures? I haven't made it up there in a while but liked what they were doing.

It would have been better had they started this project closer to the CWE, maybe along Delmar. That way we would have a bit more continuity instead of yet another nice area surrounded by nothing.

These are the types of redevelopment projects that the city needs to be investing in. This is a quality development and I would be glad to see Northside Regeneration take this form. With McKee now working with McCormick Baron, I suspect housing redevelopment on the Northside will be similar.

If developments like this can help to fill in the gaps in the near North side, it will help to make St. Louis less jarring and patchy. I took a friend of mine around here and she was pretty impressed by it. It's the stuff directly around it that needs similar construction now. I do hope this trickles further and further out. I also agree that NSR should really try to duplicate this. Maybe get UIC involved too!

Does anyone have photos? I'm not entirely clear on what this development is.

Will there be any more phases? Any news yet on who the retailers will be?

These are a short walk from where the new Central Corridor Streetcar will be going if and when it is built in a few years. That, on top of the fact the units are cheap, will create demand for future phases. If there were several more square blocks like this surrounding it and that kind of public transportation were there, I would probably live there if I went to SLU! Now they just need a major retail anchor.

Imagine if we got a Whattaburger or In-N-Out in St. Louis. Never gonna happen, although they did build a Steak N Shake in Vegas, so...Anyway, those would be incredibly busy here in STL if they each only had one location here. They could pick from pretty much anywhere in STL they wanted, so I doubt they would pick the North Sarah project, but you can imagine what it would be like if they did. It would be a great way to lure residents from all over the region into the Near North side and show them how much things are changing in the City.

These look really good. I wish they'd build something like this on North Grand; I think they'd have an easier time filling retail spaces on Grand, too. I'm thinking especially around the water tower, you could create something that really feels like a PLACE!

Yes. I want more phases of this to stretch to Grand Center and Gaslight Square. It can peak at the water tower before, in the future, meeting with NS Regeneration's developments. It's the NEW North St. Louis!

Why couldn't Aventura have looked like this??

I haven't been able to see it lately, does someone have any recent pictures or anything? and isn't phase 2 almost finished now?

How any phases is this supposed to go to?

Here's a relatively recent photo of the Vandeventer side:


I have a flickr photo set of this project over the past few years here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasa/sets/ ... 526842700/

That's unfortunate...I'd be interested to see the quality of these other new proposals they couldn't compete with...and I'd like to see how they compare in 10 years. You get what you pay for.

That development looks pretty great! A 100% improvement over what I see on Google streetview.

^ fantastic news.

North Sarah should be a model for how to redevelop neighborhoods. Way too much suburban looking crap in the city. This actually the first development that has an urban aesthetic, although I like the newer gaslight square townhouses too.