I had given this one up for dead, but there are some recent signs of life. One of the homes is under construction; not sure if it's officially part of the overall development, or maybe someone just bought this one lot (the foundation has been finished for about a year).   






Future home sites on the right:




https://nextstl.com/2017/09/vandeventer ... nce-1940s/

There's a building permit f or a new home at 4050 Enright. Anyone know what it'll look like? It's a 25 foot wide lot. The same person owns the 37.5 foot wide lot next door, so I'm worried. Wide-lot houses are land productivity killers!

Yes, wide-lot single-family homes should be looked at with as much disdain as surface parking. Two sides of the same coin.
Just say no.

Yeah, there's so much empty land on the Northside that I'm not worried about these "wide lot" problems. Whatever brings people back works for me. 

^ The northside , and city for that matter could definitely use a few more tax generating properties.   

Unless magically somehow a half million decide to move back into St. Louis city in the next decade or two the city will need to embrace single family residential as part of the solution to all its empty lots and non tax generating land.   Might be some disdain for wide residential lot but if the city wants to promote row houses and density in general it needs to take a big chunk of city, tear up the streets, pull down the wires & take down the poles and cap the pipes so it can be nature until the population starts growing again.   My point is the city of 300,000 can't sustain the infrastructure & services of once upon a time population of 800,000 nor can it live in la la land that every singe development is high density, mixed use variety.   

Two $375k building permit applications submitted for two pairs of townhomes at 4024 and 4028 Enright. Or is one pair of townhomes on the two lots? Anyone have a drawing or rendering of these?

quincunx wrote: ↑

Nov 16, 2024

Demo Alert: 4331 Enright
Owned by an LLC
Not in a Preservation Review or Historic District.
Smh, what a beauty. Heartbreaking that we throw these in the trash

I was just about to post the same thing. That’s one of the sadder ones iI have seen in a while. A beautiful home that will never be replicated.

2 blocks north of the CWE. How in the world can we not stabilize above delmar by the most desirable neighborhood. Blows my mind. The most arbitrary line in the country