I would like to know where we are with the Grand Avenue Form Based Code that was being proposed by Metro, ULI, and CMT? This area needs serious help and the last thing we need is more SLU suburbanized crap.
I am truly amazed and absolutely ashamed that SLU has been able to get away with this eyesore without any penalties. Who in the hell is overseeing this? There should be penalties and the Post-Dispatch should be asking for heads to role at both the government offices and at SLU.
^ Another reason some type of government reform and consolidation needs to happen. I seriously think institutions like SLU only do this to the city because it is the "city" and not New York City or Chicago City, but little ole, run down St. Louis City, or at least that is how its perceived. I highly doubt companies and institutions would pull the same type of madness if the city were 1.3 million strong and represented wealthy enclaves like Wildwood and Chesterfield. Remember when SLU threatened to move to Chesterfield if the city didn't let them tear down Pevely? As if Chesterfield would allow SLU to run wild, not pay taxes, and knock down every building in sight with no foreseeable plan or vision. All you have to do is look at the situation in Webster Groves to know that institutions cant just pack up and move.
It's a work in progress but I hope to update it as long as they let that rubble stay there.
http://slumoundnews.blogspot.com/
Thanks for letting me use your photos Alex!
http://slumoundnews.blogspot.com/
Thanks for letting me use your photos Alex!
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^ good start! you should put a little context blurb on the front page, though, along with a link to more information (e.g. nextSTL stories, STLToday stories, etc.).
Just curious; can anyone confirm whether or not any cleanup has begun yet?
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^ I was by yesterday and there was not start yet. I saw something on the twiitershpere earlier this week that the temporary SLU president said that a contractor has been hired and work could begin any day. We can hope.
^Thanks. I've got a letter to the editor scheduled to appear in the Post any day now.
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Dump trucks are lined up on site en masse this morning. Destroy...grade...seed...fence...repeat.
Just an update...I saw some heavy equipment moving rubble on Friday afternoon. Looks like work to clear the mounds is slowly beginning
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All the rubble is gone as far as I could tell. Also, some windows are now boarded up that I'm pretty sure weren't before. Dunno if this is any indication that just perhaps the new administration may seek to do something with it.
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^ my guess is that it's not on SLU's radar at the moment, but Roddy was taking a lot of heat for the mess so he got on them to pretty it up.
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Was in town for the first time in a while over the weekend and was struck by the tremendous positive change going on virtually everywhere in the city, especially in the central corridor-south towards TG and Soulard/Benton Park.
Got to this area and it looks like someone firebombed a mile and a half of the city. SLU truly should be ashamed of itself. The amount of new build and reconstruction going on around all areas of the city makes this even worse. Hopefully the institution pulls its head out of its ass sooner rather than later. This whole area is truly sickening.
Got to this area and it looks like someone firebombed a mile and a half of the city. SLU truly should be ashamed of itself. The amount of new build and reconstruction going on around all areas of the city makes this even worse. Hopefully the institution pulls its head out of its ass sooner rather than later. This whole area is truly sickening.
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+1newstl2020 wrote: Hopefully the institution pulls its head out of its ass sooner rather than later.
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just wondering if anybody has heard ANYTHING about the Pevely site recently. are SLU's plans in limbo or have they completely abandoned them?
There was stories that the only reason SLU got the demo permit approved for this complex was because they agreed moved their law school downtown. Timeline makes sense. Preservation votes to approved demo in 12/2011 I believe and slu announces law school move in 01/2013
A few months ago, Michael Allen reported that the deadline for SLU to procure a building permit to gain the right to demolish the corner building had long passed. Because its right to demolish the building was conditional upon it securing a building permit for the site by Dec2012, SLU does not currently have the right to demolish the corner building. They also still do not own the Missouri Belting Building next door.urban_dilettante wrote:just wondering if anybody has heard ANYTHING about the Pevely site recently. are SLU's plans in limbo or have they completely abandoned them?
Somewhat stealthily, he also mentioned that because of site conditions, it had become apparent that SLU would not be able to build the proposed ambulatory care facility on that location at all.
I don't know if anything has happened since then.
http://preservationresearch.com/2013/11 ... ely-dairy/
^^ I'm pretty sure Bill McClellan even wrote a column at the time that said essentially acknowledged that that was the case. Plus, SLU's Law Dean was apparently caught completely off guard. Which set in motion the events which led to her leaving.
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The whole situation seems really shady, but I just don't understand SLU's motivation. The ambulatory care facility was clearly a ruse, but to what purpose? On the whole it seems like SLU would have been better off with the buildings intact and unoccupied than in the state they're in now. What was the end game for them?
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^ I think it was simply Biondi's preference to not have those buildings there.... purely an aesthetic preference.
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that's my take as well.roger wyoming II wrote:^ I think it was simply Biondi's preference to not have those buildings there.... purely an aesthetic preference.
i guess i was just hoping that the new Biondi-free administration had expressed some interest in selling it to a developer or something… sound like not yet.
Funny how things work out, because it was simply my preference to not have Biondi there anymore...purley an aesthetic preference, of course.roger wyoming II wrote:^ I think it was simply Biondi's preference to not have those buildings there.... purely an aesthetic preference.
^ It is also funny how you got market rate and assorted apartments that include rehabs and infill happening in and around Grand, Midtown and along Forest Parkway. It seemed like every proposal floated near SLU didn't go anywhere during his tenure to expand to the campus footprint.
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One of my Jesuit acquaintances at SLU says Biondi is still talking about an ambulatory care center there. He was under the impression that it was a done deal.
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Were there ever actual plans for the ambulatory care center?