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SB in BH wrote:

StlAlex wrote: ↑

3:43 AM - Jul 14

courtland wrote:Why wasn't the innovation district being worked on concurrently?  

There was like a 45% chance Kehoe would veto it lmao

Also as usual, slopulist lefties on Reddit pretending this bill is comparable at all to a football stadium handout.

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Apologies, I'm old and detached from online political debate (this site excluded). What is a "slopulist leftie" and how are they comparing this to sportsball subsidies?

kg2024 wrote: ↑

2:16 PM - Jul 14

addxb2 wrote: ↑

11:50 PM - Jul 13

Rams bills allocating $55M and HB 3231 signed on the same day. Could be the biggest day in government action to lift up downtown this decade. Let’s hope the innovation district is created quickly.

Explore St. Louis takes control of Dome and receives powers and duties of the Sports Complex Authority (RSA) beginning Aug. 28, 2026.

Big summer!

Additional details about the $55M appropriated for Downtown (full bill language here):

The amended bill focuses this money on the implementation of the Design Downtown STL neighborhood plan that was adopted in 2020 and is the formal roadmap for revitalizing Downtown & Downtown West, which had significant public input. This is an important amendment because it keeps the use of the funds in line with the community's desires and existing goals and hopefully minimizes another period of vision-planning and indecision.

Within the $55M Downtown Neighborhood Plan Implementation Fund there are subdivisions as follows:

• Strategic Major Capital Projects Fund - $30M

           - Supporting long-term vacant building stabilization and redevelopment
           - Supporting Downtown streetscape, pedestrian, green space, and mobility capital projects ($10M minimum on projects like these)

• Riverfront Fund - $15M

          - For increasing commercial activity and pedestrian access; signage, wayfinding, beautification, accessibility, and urban activation support infrastructure;  and incentivizing Riverfront ground-level development and improving river-oriented attractions (like a boat dock for river tours and cruises).

• Downtown Retail and Events Program Fund - $10M

         - To support "active" recommendations in the neighborhood plan such as: strategic retail and restaurant activation along major corridors including sidewalk cafes, parklets, Open Streets, facade improvements, white-boxing retail locations, etc.
        - Creation of a public-private partnership fund to support the recruitment of sporting events ($2.5M minimum)

It will be interesting to see in the coming months what city departments will come up with on implementation plans and what features of the Design Downtown STL Plan will be focused on. Hopefully some of these things can be done with in-house staff to avoid giving funds away to consultants and lengthy planning timelines and things can just get done, its time!

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote:Here is that plan

Reading through this really brings me back. It's crazy how much can change in six years. Still a lot of good stuff. RIP the garment district, I thought that was a good idea but I guess it just ran out of steam. 

One of my biggest gripes with this plan is that they don't seem to want to push mixed use residential north of Lucas Ave or south of the train tracks (IE page 118) 

Downtown operates as an island (although now at least has some nice bike infrastructure connections) and IMO we need to be focusing on rebuilding these outer areas just as much as the core. Stitching downtown back into the cities greater urban fabric should be a macro level priority for STL

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

3:27 PM - Jul 02

Sybergs is closing on the 18th, that's no rumor.   City SC has an intention to re-develop everything from the stadium going west to Jefferson and to do that, the states MODESA bill, which built BPV, was extending this past session for Millenium, next phase of BPV and to include soccer complex (also KC Current complex).  MODESA lets the developer keep 85% of sales and income tax generated on site for 30 years to finance the project. 

StlAlex wrote:CBRE's 2nd Quarter office report for St. Louis shows a new lease at 200 N Broadway for 58,000 square feet for law firm Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd.

They are currently based at 1015 Locust, a pretty ugly office building that I'd imagine is struggling vacancy wise.

I haven't seen any news articles about it so I obviously don't know the details, but it's probably safe to assume they are just moving their office.

For 200 N Broadway, this is a much needed tanant to help replace FleishmanHilliard and Morgan and Morgan, who both left recently.

I wish CBRE and Colliers posted all their leasing activity instead of just the largest ones.

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kg2024 wrote: ↑

4:10 PM - Jul 14

The boundaries of the Design Downtown STL plan are the same as the official city neighborhood boundaries of Downtown + Downtown West (bounded by the river, Chouteau, Jefferson, and Cole). The plan largely includes all of the other prerequisites for the "Master Plan" that the innovation zone bill outlines:

StlAlex wrote: ↑

4:40 AM - Jul 10

I wish CBRE and Colliers posted all their leasing activity instead of just the largest ones.

Jallen26 wrote:

StlAlex wrote: ↑

4:40 AM - Jul 10

I wish CBRE and Colliers posted all their leasing activity instead of just the largest ones.

That would be an extremely long list!

leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑

6:13 PM - Jul 25

The stabbing was fatal. Confirmed.