Is Scott Ogilvie still on this forum and available to explain why it's gonna be 2026 before our city has a few more bike lanes?mjbais1489 wrote: ↑Sep 12, 2022Anyone know the status of the 7th Street Corrider improvements? It is really insane how long it takes in this town to say, hey we decided on an idea and then actually implementing. Whatever is driving that should be examined.
Tucker redo, Tower Grove connector both also taking very long.
Bidding completed in August, construction expected to start in October.
https://www.constructionjournal.com/pro ... e91df.html
https://www.modot.org/sites/default/fil ... 604%29.pdf
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If funds are there it would have proceeded. Bids probably came back rather high and now the funds aren’t there and they have to VE to get within the funding or go find more. Project took to long as it should have went into construction at least a year ago IMO and now got hit with materials inflation.JJ Taino wrote:Funds are there but somehow this city admin shows their lack in managing funds!!mjbais1489 wrote:Anyone know the status of the 7th Street Corrider improvements? It is really insane how long it takes in this town to say, hey we decided on an idea and then actually implementing. Whatever is driving that should be examined.
Tucker redo, Tower Grove connector both also taking very long.
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No, it’s because it’s federal money and it was award further out. That’s the issue with getting federal money, there is a long review process that MODOT (as the federal funds admin for FHWA) under takes for each step- signing contract, right of way acquisition/construction easement, multi step design review and finally final bid documentsJJ Taino wrote: ↑Sep 12, 2022Funds are there but somehow this city admin shows their lack in managing funds!!mjbais1489 wrote:Anyone know the status of the 7th Street Corrider improvements? It is really insane how long it takes in this town to say, hey we decided on an idea and then actually implementing. Whatever is driving that should be examined.
Tucker redo, Tower Grove connector both also taking very long.
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7th street should start construction by end of 2022
Tucker by end of 2023
I know this will be viewed as excuse making, but there's also the shortage of labor and materials which is driving up costs.mjbais1489 wrote: ↑Sep 12, 2022Anyone know the status of the 7th Street Corrider improvements? It is really insane how long it takes in this town to say, hey we decided on an idea and then actually implementing. Whatever is driving that should be examined.
Tucker redo, Tower Grove connector both also taking very long.
Cincinnati may ban future surface parking lots downtown - WXVU
No new surface parking lots could be built Downtown under an ordinance proposed by Council Member Mark Jeffreys. He says surface lots are poor utilization of land and Downtown already has plenty of parking.
But, he says the core of this proposal is a priority for people instead of “car culture.”
“What we get is what we build,” he said. “For too long we built our city for cars and what we get is cars and traffic; build a Cincinnati for people and we get people.”
City administration is considering a long-term change to zoning code to prohibit future surface lots. In the meantime, city officials are considering a three-month ban on new lots while the issue is being studied.
No new surface parking lots could be built Downtown under an ordinance proposed by Council Member Mark Jeffreys. He says surface lots are poor utilization of land and Downtown already has plenty of parking.
But, he says the core of this proposal is a priority for people instead of “car culture.”
“What we get is what we build,” he said. “For too long we built our city for cars and what we get is cars and traffic; build a Cincinnati for people and we get people.”
City administration is considering a long-term change to zoning code to prohibit future surface lots. In the meantime, city officials are considering a three-month ban on new lots while the issue is being studied.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... bd060.htmlGreater St. Louis Inc., the region’s business development organization, is spearheading a push to ban new large clubs in most of downtown and require any new drinking establishment to close by 1:30 a.m.
I didn't ever really get the impression that 3am bars were the issue. Most of the 3am bars downtown are the ones that don't really cause trouble.
This is dumb. We already have a shortage of late-night options in St. Louis – why damage the few we do have. I'm all for restrictions to prevent the next Reign, but nightclubs/bars are part of what makes a downtown a downtown. I just got back from NYC and Madrid and you never hear about the nightclubs there causing issues. We just have a general crime issue that needs to be addressed.eee123 wrote:https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... bd060.htmlGreater St. Louis Inc., the region’s business development organization, is spearheading a push to ban new large clubs in most of downtown and require any new drinking establishment to close by 1:30 a.m.
I didn't ever really get the impression that 3am bars were the issue. Most of the 3am bars downtown are the ones that don't really cause trouble.
Edit: After reading it, the ban seems to only extend to Wash Ave, which could be fine. I understand those in the main strip from MX to near Windows. But I hope it doesn't affect those further down like Dos Salas or those adjacent to Wash Ave like Europe.
^ You will never ever have the general permissiveness of countries like Spain as long as people can freely buy guns in the US.
I know I'm stating the obvious here, but I think a lot of people's opinions on Downtown, at least from a safety and visual perspective, would improve a lot if this thing were razed. Even a parking lot would be an improvement. I've been walking by it a lot recently and it takes so much away from what should be the premier business part of Downtown.![]()
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StlToday - St. Louis says Shell station is nuisance, but doesn't produce records to prove it
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^ this isnt about the downtown shell, this is another Shell in north city
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Few downtown related items
According to a very large downtown biz owner the juvenile issues that plagued downtown at start of summer have been non existent the last few months.
Crimes against a person for the downtown neighborhood are down 25% through Sept 2022 vs through Sept 2021. Many reasons including much more eye balls in downtown with cardinals back to over 3.3m and generally more things open
According to a very large downtown biz owner the juvenile issues that plagued downtown at start of summer have been non existent the last few months.
Crimes against a person for the downtown neighborhood are down 25% through Sept 2022 vs through Sept 2021. Many reasons including much more eye balls in downtown with cardinals back to over 3.3m and generally more things open
Has Smoothie King in the Park Pacific garage closed? They had some weirdness with hours. I wasn't sure if it was related to the garage beautification. Now that location doesn't seem to show up on their site or Google.
I'm happy to see that Snarf's has gone back to being open decent hours, seven days a week into the evening daily.
The crime news DB posted is a positive, but I'm definitely hearing gunfire in downtown west pretty regularly of late. It seems nobody is hit during any of it. Not sure if there's more or I just hear more because it's open window weather. Some came on a Saturday afternoon, another burst was a weekday in the 6pm hour, so not exactly late-night.
Related, Tuesday night the police shot a man downtown:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 33017.html
I'm happy to see that Snarf's has gone back to being open decent hours, seven days a week into the evening daily.
The crime news DB posted is a positive, but I'm definitely hearing gunfire in downtown west pretty regularly of late. It seems nobody is hit during any of it. Not sure if there's more or I just hear more because it's open window weather. Some came on a Saturday afternoon, another burst was a weekday in the 6pm hour, so not exactly late-night.
Related, Tuesday night the police shot a man downtown:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 33017.html
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Please share on NextDoor if you haven't yet. Too much of that platform is doom and gloom.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Oct 12, 2022Few downtown related items
According to a very large downtown biz owner the juvenile issues that plagued downtown at start of summer have been non existent the last few months.
Crimes against a person for the downtown neighborhood are down 25% through Sept 2022 vs through Sept 2021. Many reasons including much more eye balls in downtown with cardinals back to over 3.3m and generally more things open
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^See, the trouble with sharing something on NextDoor is that you have to log in to NextDoor to do it. And it's hard to come away without feeling at least slightly soiled.
They just announced a big new office tower in downtown Omaha, and the comments on one of their local news sites were just like what we get in STL. Online forums are just natural gatherings for grumblers, it seems (present company excepted, of course).
https://www.kmov.com/2022/10/14/police- ... s-closure/JJ Taino wrote: ↑Apr 28, 2022I wonder where all the Reigns protectors are going to say now? Reigns folks didn’t even showed up to court.
Downtown is doing better after this place closed. There’s a lot that needs to be done but this was the nest of violence in Downtown before it hot closed.
ST. LOUIS — A judge on Wednesday ordered former downtown nightspot Reign to pay its landlord nearly $340,000 in rent and attorney's fees after nobody from the restaurant showed up for a scheduled trial.
Reign, which was evicted from its building at 1122 Washington Avenue in October after the city deemed it a "threat to public safety," will now be required to pay about $257,000 in rent and $82,700 in attorney's fees to Copia Acquisitions LLC.
Copia argued in court filings the restaurant was first notified in September 2020 that it was behind on rent, but Reign continued to operate out of the building for about a year without paying the full amount.
Reign's owner, Dana Kelly, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another suit between Copia Acquisitions and Reign is still pending. That proceeding argues Reign owes at least $387,000 in interest and damages after it left the building with torn-out or destroyed cabinets, freezers, coolers, toilets, ovens, doors and gas fireplaces, among other items.
https://www.stltoday.com/business/local ... 4403f.html
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Police report less calls on Washington Avenue since Reign’s closure
ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - Residents on Washington Avenue are noticing a difference since the closure of the nightclub Reign.
“It’s really peaceful,” resident Corey Harris said. “It’s just like the cloud has come from over our head.”
Reign shut down in October 2021. Police have long said the club was connected to many violent incidents.
“We did see a spike in calls for service,” Police Cpt. Pierre Benoist said. “All circled around Reign nightclub and what it was, was it was draining our resources that we do have Downtown.”
In the summer of 2020 on Reign’s block on Washington, there were 35 disturbance calls, three assaults and five shooting calls.
The summer of 2021 saw 26 disturbance calls, seven assaults, three rapes and eight shooting calls.
Then, during the summer of 2022 after Reign’s closure, there were 15 disturbance calls, four assaults and one shooting call.
“This administration has taken problem properties extremely seriously and we’re putting a lot of focus on them to kind of cut problems off before they get to a violent nature,” Benoist said.
Now we need to close that gas station on Tucker by Washington the Shell. City has finally acknowledged the drug dealing and use at Poelker Park. Now they need to help those addicts and homeless and find them help at medical locations.
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https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... 0#cxrecs_s
Looks like KC Law firm Polsinelli taking 90 employees from DT to Clayton.
Looks like KC Law firm Polsinelli taking 90 employees from DT to Clayton.
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Feels like when it comes to downtown, it's always one small step forward, one huge step back.TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑Oct 19, 2022https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... 0#cxrecs_s
Looks like KC Law firm Polsinelli taking 90 employees from DT to Clayton.
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So Scale moving 235 jobs to downtown was a small step forward and a law firm moving 90 out is a huge step back? FDA moving 1000 in small step forward but KMOV moving 156 out is huge step back?debaliviere wrote: ↑Oct 20, 2022Feels like when it comes to downtown, it's always one small step forward, one huge step back.TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑Oct 19, 2022https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... 0#cxrecs_s
Looks like KC Law firm Polsinelli taking 90 employees from DT to Clayton.
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^I appreciate you putting this into perspective. Always better to look at the net gains.
If you read the article the owner of the building is implementing a short term capital improvement plan to "address near term lease rollover". So this move might actually be about a gripe with the condition of the actual premises and not a DT issue...
If you read the article the owner of the building is implementing a short term capital improvement plan to "address near term lease rollover". So this move might actually be about a gripe with the condition of the actual premises and not a DT issue...