Chris posted this over on Facebook:

"Neighborhood Properties, the firm planning the redevelopment of the Jesuit Hall building at Grand and Lindell, is planning a large scale housing development at 7701 Canton Avenue in University City. Plans call for 124 townhomes in 2-story configurations. The homes will also include a single car garage. The townhomes will be built on an unused portion of the United Hebrew Cemetery. Unlike some of the more recent subdivisions built in the Metro Area, this one will be set up in a way that resembles a traditional street grid with three East-West streets and two North-South . . . "

The site is entirely surrounded by single-family homes, so I expect a lot of push-back from the neighbors.

framer wrote:Chris posted this over on Facebook:

"Neighborhood Properties, the firm planning the redevelopment of the Jesuit Hall building at Grand and Lindell, is planning a large scale housing development at 7701 Canton Avenue in University City. Plans call for 124 townhomes in 2-story configurations. The homes will also include a single car garage. The townhomes will be built on an unused portion of the United Hebrew Cemetery. Unlike some of the more recent subdivisions built in the Metro Area, this one will be set up in a way that resembles a traditional street grid with three East-West streets and two North-South . . . "

The site is entirely surrounded by single-family homes, so I expect a lot of push-back from the neighbors.

Looks good. Wish U City was doing more of this and less of the auto sprawl stuff.


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sc4mayor wrote:Seems like this might be in University City?

Right. I’m saying I want U City to do more of this and less of Costco and QT.


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It's a shame it can't be totally connected into the street grid but I guess we should take what we can get.

Updated site plan. Plans now call for 108 units.

These detention ponds are starting to make me angry.

Still moving forward. Looks like the new plan is for 100 units.  

https://www.ucitymo.org/DocumentCenter/ ... Commission

Is this firm still working on the Jesuit Hall building on Grand? 

Good question.

U city plan commission will be holding a public hearing on this project on July 24. More info and renderings here:

https://www.ucitymo.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=6088

Ugh

Hideous. 

STLEnginerd wrote: ↑

Apr 25, 2023

Garages should be in the back.  Haven't seen renderings but i can't imagine these looking good from the street.  Its pretty much a wall of garages at street level.

Seems about right

At least give the end ones am extra window or two.

Not one window visible on the ground floor?  U City isn't going to accept this design.  Looks like gov't subsidized housing with a garage.

quincunx wrote:There are pickelball courts and a club house/coffee shop. 
Is that a cell tower?

Yes. There has been a cell tower back there for quite a while. They built an access road at Westover to access it. Looks like that access road will become the western entrance to the subdivision.


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Public hearing this Wednesday, July 23rd, 6:30 PM at the University City Community Center, 975 Pennsylvania.  

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... -city.html

BJ Article on this proposal:

The Enclave on Canton would consist of 106 townhouses on a 10.7-acre property at 7701 Canton Ave., which is part of United Hebrew Cemetery, a 20-acre Jewish cemetery that’s been located at the site for more than 180 years.


The developers of the project are Jack Ehlers and Mike Ehlers of financial firm William James Capital LLC, who have been working with the city on the project for the last year and a half.

The property, which is listed for sale for $1.2 million by its owner, the United Hebrew Congregation, is one of the key neighborhoods in the city’s 3rd Ward that were identified in a task force report the city issued last year on how to spend $10 million to improve that neighborhood, where residents typically have a lower income than residents in other areas of University City.


Enclave at Canton townhouses rendering University Cityexpand
This rendering shows what the townhouses proposed at the United Hebrew Cemetery site could look like.
University City Plan Commission
The money was promised as part of the $71.5 million in tax increment financing approved for the $211 million Market at Olive redevelopment of part of the 3rd Ward into a business corridor anchored by Costco, to be followed by Target and grocery store Dierbergs.


In response to feedback from that task force that 3rd Ward residents wanted more neighborhood retail sites, the developer changed the original housing proposal to add a small local coffee shop, about 900 square feet, that would be operated at the clubhouse at the new housing community’s entrance.

The site would also have pickleball courts and a dog park, but site plans show that it would cut down the untouched forest that’s currently at the site.

To move forward, the proposal would need rezoning that would include approval of the subdivision, a change in zoning to limited residential and limited commercial, and a conditional use permit, among other approvals. None of those approvals are finalized, and the project is still being heard by city committees.

At the time the 3rd Ward task force report was issued last year, the report identified the cemetery site, also known as Mount Olive Cemetery, as the largest potential housing development site in the 3rd Ward. The property had already received several housing proposals at the time the report was issued, the task force said. The panel set guidelines the city could follow when deciding which housing proposal should go in that area, recommending the city choose a plan that offers small-scale neighborhood retail, along with a range of housing types and choosing design over density. Houses in that potential future neighborhood should have porches in the front and off-street parking to the side or back, the consultants said.

What happens to the graves in the cemetary? 

PeterXCV wrote: ↑

Aug 18, 2025

What happens to the graves in the cemetary? 

This is just spare land they had. It's not building on burial grounds that have been used.