SLU New Residence Halls

Greatest St. Louis · PostOct 09, 2014#12014-10-09T13:05+00:00

http://www.slu.edu/x97709.xml

Phase 1 of the proposed multi-phase plan is expected to include the construction of two new residence halls on the Frost campus; renovation of the Griesedieck complex, which includes Walsh and Clemens Halls; and conversion of SLU's Water Tower Inn at the Medical Center into graduate housing.

chaifetz10 · PostOct 09, 2014#22014-10-09T13:35+00:00

SLU may be feeling the pressure from all of these private developments to finally modernize its housing options, which is a good thing. It will be interesting to see where they place these two new residences... hopefully eat up some of that land banking they've focused on.

Greatest St. Louis · PostOct 09, 2014#32014-10-09T13:38+00:00

Would be nice to see them build something modern and sleek where they tore down Pevely.

It's the least they could do after how that debacle has played out.

debaliviere · PostOct 09, 2014#42014-10-09T13:43+00:00

Greatest St. Louis wrote:Would be nice to see them build something modern and sleek where they tore down Pevely.

It's the least they could do after how that debacle has played out.

That's not part of the Frost Campus, however.

imran · PostOct 09, 2014#52014-10-09T14:26+00:00

SLU should build on Olive east of Grand. Hide those sprawling parking garages on the south side with housing and (gasp) mixed use.

roger wyoming II · PostOct 09, 2014#62014-10-09T14:57+00:00

^ +1. But there also is a certain corner lot that would make for a very nice student residential/office/retail tower @ Grand and Lindell! Also, it would be great if SLU could work with the city & MODOT on addressing the FPP/Grand/40 mess as part of this.

TheNewSaintLouis · PostOct 09, 2014#72014-10-09T22:52+00:00

Both of the new residences are to be 8 floors each with a total of 900 beds

Presbyterian · PostOct 10, 2014#82014-10-10T00:32+00:00

Per Post-Dispatch, they'll be on the northwest corner of Spring and Laclede and immediately east of Simon rec center.

wabash · PostOct 10, 2014#92014-10-10T00:37+00:00

^Interesting. That'd be awesome. There's no shortage of great building sites in/around campus.

dmmonty1 · PostOct 10, 2014#102014-10-10T01:19+00:00

I'd love it if part of the renovation of the Griesedieck Complex were removing the green party hats from the roof...

framer · PostOct 10, 2014#112014-10-10T02:22+00:00

Do we need to start worrying about them tearing down that cool Art-Deco building they just renovated; Beracha Hall, I think it is?

chaifetz10 · PostOct 10, 2014#122014-10-10T08:19+00:00

Post dispatch has a map of the sites. I can see it for a second, but I'm not able to save it since its behind their pay wall.

dbInSouthCity · PostOct 10, 2014#132014-10-10T12:36+00:00

a second is plenty long to take a screenshot

chaifetz10 · PostOct 10, 2014#142014-10-10T12:59+00:00

Not when you're battling horrible cell reception on your phone!

I believe Presbyterian has it posted on twitter now.

roger wyoming II · PostOct 10, 2014#152014-10-10T13:01+00:00

MRNHS · PostOct 10, 2014#162014-10-10T14:00+00:00

Wow, that's great! Will add density by taking up a parking lot and a unused space with grass. Hopefully the design is good.

wabash · PostOct 10, 2014#172014-10-10T16:07+00:00

This is great news. It seems that right now there is something of an arms race in SLU student housing projects:

-West Pine Lofts
-The Standard
-Two new Laclede Ave. SLU dorms
-announced/stalled Lawrence Group conversion of Missouri Theater Building
-rumored 3700 block of Olive project
-rumored 3900 block of West Pine project

Hopefully the arms race continues to escalate (perhaps with a Cortex residential proposal or Midtown Station adopting a mixed-use strategy - both of which could be helped by the future Boyle Metrolink Station).

RuskiSTL · PostNov 04, 2014#182014-11-04T19:48+00:00

^^ do you think slu will be increasing enrollment?

mjbais1489 · PostNov 04, 2014#192014-11-04T20:19+00:00

SLU's new president's most notable accomplishment while at Lemoyne College was the dramatic rise in attendance.

Also Reinart was a two-bed dorm room until about 10 years ago when increased attendance forced them to make that whole building three beds to a room. Hopefully this will allow that to stop

http://www.slu.edu/president/

framer · PostNov 04, 2014#202014-11-04T20:52+00:00

Here's the latest from NextSTL, including renderings:

http://nextstl.com/2014/10/new-saint-lo ... ring-2015/

Presbyterian · PostNov 26, 2014#212014-11-26T21:04+00:00

Tweeted this earlier today...

SLU applied this month for zoning approval for 8-story 450-bed residence hall at Laclede & Spring. Early schematic...

stlien · PostNov 26, 2014#222014-11-26T21:37+00:00

Looks like senior housing.

m2tbone · PostNov 26, 2014#232014-11-26T21:47+00:00

^ It looks more like freshman and sophomore housing to me.

framer · PostNov 27, 2014#242014-11-27T03:21+00:00

Seriously, though, it really does look like a retirement home. And not a very nice one at that.

Gateway City · PostNov 27, 2014#252014-11-27T07:04+00:00

They're building so much new housing but how much is their student body actually growing? Are they planning to announce a new campus soon...Perhaps something at the Pevely site?