Yeah I was more talking about lack of street level activation for those garages. For what it’s worth, for now, you need that parking. Stadium west fills up pretty much full to floor 9 every day just from commuter parking. Not to mention Busch.
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Pharoah's is opening a place in north county (or north City?). Someone there told me so, and the location, but I can't recall... somewhere on Natural Bridge.
At the time she acted like it'd be a second location, but my guess is it'll end up as the sole location for a bit.
Natural Bridge west of I-170 for a second location, along with the aforementioned Paul Brown Building to move the current location.
Has anyone heard any recent updates on RRX or its parking garage? Pharoah's and Subway are still there and don't appear to be going anywhere at the moment.
“Recently, the Railway Exchange owners said they responded to a request for 143,000-square-feet of downtown office space from the federal General Services Administration and that they are “actively attempting to sell, market and develop the project.”
I work a lot with the Army and they use 150sq gross per person, that would be almost 1,000 employees
“Recently, the Railway Exchange owners said they responded to a request for 143,000-square-feet of downtown office space from the federal General Services Administration and that they are “actively attempting to sell, market and develop the project.”
Re-posting this section of my comment regarding a possible USDA move downtown from a different thread:
The link included with the PD article points to a request from the GSA for "PBS Central Office" (PBS is the Pubic Buildings Service, more commonly known as the government's landlord).
Details: Delineated Area:
North: Cole Street and Carr Street
East: Leonor K Sullivan Boulevard
South: Interstate 64
West: Jefferson Avenue
1. 15 commercially available public parking spaces must be located within a safely accessible walkable 800 feet and an additional 1,000 commercially available public parking spaces must be located within a safely accessible, walkable 2,640 feet from the principal functional entrance of the Building, as determined by the LCO.
2. Parking for the 4 vehicles shall be in a secured area with fencing (4 vehicles will require onsite parking).
3. A 3,000 SF mailroom, 9,200 SF print shop, and 6,000 SF warehouse (or acceptable storage space) should be located on the ground floor and be near the loading dock and/or an elevator that can accommodate a flatbed cart measuring 48” long x 24’ wide with a load capacity of at least 2,500 lbs. If these spaces cannot be located on the ground floor near the loading dock the spaces must be located near a freight elevator.
4. The loading dock should have a leveler and weather tight seals around the rolling doors.
5. Level III Security.
6. The awarded lease amount not including operating expenses must be below prospectus level
“Recently, the Railway Exchange owners said they responded to a request for 143,000-square-feet of downtown office space from the federal General Services Administration and that they are “actively attempting to sell, market and develop the project.”
I work a lot with the Army and they use 150sq gross per person, that would be almost 1,000 employees
The GSA is looking for 143k sf of space downtown when they own an office building about that same size next to Union Station, which has been sitting empty for 4 years...
Does anyone know what is happening with this? It looks like 2019 taxes were paid; however, Hudson doesn’t have this project listed on their website anymore
Sorry, if this jumps to the top of the thread and excites you, only to disappoint...
^ Yeah that was an odd comment, if you don’t care, just don’t say anything lol. It’s definitely relevant to the thread while I don’t particularly care about Parnas’ interest in the building I do find it very interesting and worth adding to the discussion here.
I know that Hotel St. Louis is getting a little disturbed with their neighbor building looking dirty, junky and dark. Something has to be done here to this beautiful building and fast!
I know that Hotel St. Louis is getting a little disturbed with their neighbor building looking dirty, junky and dark. Something has to be done here to this beautiful building and fast!
It's my hope we hear some news on movement sooner rather than later. This is the linchpin to bigger and better things Downtown. I'm sure that the Gills, if they had the money to do it, would love to take over this project. They would do it in a meaningful way. I'm anxiously awaiting the start of their Chemical Building project which would be even better for Hotel Saint Louis since some of the rooms face the Chemical Building.
sc4mayor wrote:^ Yeah that was an odd comment, if you don’t care, just don’t say anything lol. It’s definitely relevant to the thread while I don’t particularly care about Parnas’ interest in the building I do find it very interesting and worth adding to the discussion here.
I’m just stating that it’s important that the project gets done. Focusing on who is involved matters little, if any,to Downtown stakeholders. That premise is not really that odd.
sc4mayor wrote:^ Yeah that was an odd comment, if you don’t care, just don’t say anything lol. It’s definitely relevant to the thread while I don’t particularly care about Parnas’ interest in the building I do find it very interesting and worth adding to the discussion here.
I’m just stating that it’s important that the project gets done.
Then you should have just stated that in the first place. My apologies for not inferring all of that from your "who cares."
^ Eh, I don't know about that. I joined in 2018 and after the site's infrastructure upgrade in 2019 traffic has definitely seemed to pick up. More people seem to be participating, at least considering how things were when I started. Most of the time the site wouldn't even load properly, wouldn't stay logged in, etc (let's be honest, those issues are probably what made a lot of members disappear, the functionality of this site was horrific when I joined). It's significantly better today, but I wasn't around here when the site started so I can't speak to the old days.
Seems like people just like throwing that insult around whenever someone disagrees with them. I find it funny, the participants here are still miles better than your average Twitter or Facebook feed (especially in this town lol). And while some people here have taken things too far and gotten too personal, I find most of the arguments and disagreements to be pretty average and innocuous. If people feel the need to abandon this site over minor little disagreements that speaks more to those leaving than those staying.
And by the way, downtown stakeholders should care who's involved in this project. Who's involved is going to determine whether or not it gets done, so far those involved don't seem to have the chops to get it done. Does that not matter to downtown stakeholders?
Not if the interest in who is behind is an effort to derail the development. I can see this becoming a situation that because the person is linked to a polarizing President, then people will try and shout it down much like what happened when rumors said Jeff Arms was going to be a Trump Hotel.
And yes, some have logged of permanently because of some posters willingness to attack and act snarky, instead of converse. I know them.
^ Those Jefferson Arms Trump Hotel rumors only lasted a few months and didn't play much of a role in the delay of that project as much as the developers issues with tax credits and getting his financing together. I'm doubtful this is a play to attempt to kill the RX project. Hudson Holdings isn't having much of a problem doing that themselves with all their own issues anyway.
I'm still hoping that the GSA selects RX for that office space they put out an RFP for last year. Hudson Holdings put in a bid for that and hopefully we'll hear an announcement on that soon. The government wants to occupy that space by July 2021.
As far as your friends, their loss. I would call what you and I are having here a conversation, not an attack.
I'm still hoping that the GSA selects RX for that office space they put out an RFP for last year. Hudson Holdings put in a bid for that and hopefully we'll hear an announcement on that soon. The government wants to occupy that space by July 2021.
Interesting, didn't realize that they put in a bid but makes a lot of sense that they would. Big building with no tenant and the gov states their looking to lease a big chunk of space. Still, I have tough time seeing GSA picking RX space considering all work needed to get it back in shape and even then, does it get back to Class A? Not sure but thought that was a GSA requirement.
Getting away from the thread a little bit, but I thought whoever intended to buy and close on 909 Chestnut would have been front runner for the GSA lease but with that sale pretty much dead it does open up possibilities. Even then, still some stiff competition as you got a group that bought a downtown office building out of receivership recently and planning on $20 million in improvements. That group might have just become the front runners and assume they put their name in the hat as well. Just good ol speculation now, but who knows, maybe Cordish has a proposal in as well. They essential got a ready made building pad with utilities and general contractors on site. Not too much out of the realm of possibility for them to put up an office tower in quick fashion once they secure an anchor tenant..
To bring it back somewhat to thread. Anyone with good idea of what the developers would need to do to or show that Railway Exchange is competitive or a good choice for GSA? Major upgrades? Prove financing in place to make such upgrades can happen by required date, so on? Just seems like their would still be a lot of big hurdles.
This may likely go into foreclosure soon so I can’t see anything happening on this anytime soon which is a shame but this building needs a developer with very deep pockets with a great track record of getting things done
