I am not a cop
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A floated rumor is a coffee place is one thing going in a storefront. Unclear how solid that one thing is as I’m just a nearby resident who has asked others.STL1223 wrote:As a resident at the Expo... I am really enjoying both the area and building so far. The amenities are very nice, and there seems to be a decent amount of people around, at least in the north building.
I did want to ask, does anyone know when some of the other store fronts will fill up? Are there any potential tenants? or maybe a restaurant for people to eat at? There aren't a lot of options and I think it would benefit the neighborhood.
With the young professional and college crowd I’d say that is a solid idea. I’d certainly prefer more though. A long while back I thought I read somewhere Hudson was to get a Mexican restaurant but that has sit unchanged for months now.
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I live about a mile from here and I will be ecstatic if we get a coffee and sandwich shop! Better yet an establishment that can sustain for many years...LArchitecture wrote: ↑May 10, 2023A floated rumor is a coffee place is one thing going in a storefront. Unclear how solid that one thing is as I’m just a nearby resident who has asked others.STL1223 wrote:As a resident at the Expo... I am really enjoying both the area and building so far. The amenities are very nice, and there seems to be a decent amount of people around, at least in the north building.
I did want to ask, does anyone know when some of the other store fronts will fill up? Are there any potential tenants? or maybe a restaurant for people to eat at? There aren't a lot of options and I think it would benefit the neighborhood.
With the young professional and college crowd I’d say that is a solid idea. I’d certainly prefer more though. A long while back I thought I read somewhere Hudson was to get a Mexican restaurant but that has sit unchanged for months now.
I've heard coffee shop as well.LArchitecture wrote: ↑May 10, 2023A floated rumor is a coffee place is one thing going in a storefront. Unclear how solid that one thing is as I’m just a nearby resident who has asked others.STL1223 wrote:As a resident at the Expo... I am really enjoying both the area and building so far. The amenities are very nice, and there seems to be a decent amount of people around, at least in the north building.
I did want to ask, does anyone know when some of the other store fronts will fill up? Are there any potential tenants? or maybe a restaurant for people to eat at? There aren't a lot of options and I think it would benefit the neighborhood.
With the young professional and college crowd I’d say that is a solid idea. I’d certainly prefer more though. A long while back I thought I read somewhere Hudson was to get a Mexican restaurant but that has sit unchanged for months now.
One of the sales representatives from Expo mentioned a gym was potentially going in one of the storefronts, this would be a public fitness facility. I don't know if that is still happening, but a few restaurants or coffee shop would be great additions.
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I would welcome a gym as right now I use cortex and transport everything needed.STL1223 wrote:One of the sales representatives from Expo mentioned a gym was potentially going in one of the storefronts, this would be a public fitness facility. I don't know if that is still happening, but a few restaurants or coffee shop would be great additions.
A restaurant (sandwich place for sure), classy cocktail place, I think a nail salon would potentially do well here, I even thought metro having an office at their blue/red split would make sense here. As long as it doesn’t compete with Mac’s I’d use it.
Lawsuit settled over ‘bogus’ St. Louis neighborhood group controlled by Lux Living brothers
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... -top-story
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... -top-story
A judge agreed last week. Prior to the settlement, Judge Michael Stelzer ruled in favor of the Expo developers, saying that after months of discovery, they could not prove that the old neighborhood group with development review rights had properly assigned those powers to the reincorporated group.
Berkowitz, Chakraverty and Alston are the only members of the Commercial DeBaliviere Place Association. And the only evidence they could produce that the association had development review rights was an assignment of the old association’s powers signed by Bruce Mills, who was on the board when it dissolved in 1992.
Mills is founder and chair of Mills Properties, which has done business with Alston and Chakraverty, including selling them a site on Pershing Avenue and in downtown loft buildings.
Other directors on the old association never voted on assigning its powers to the group Berkowitz reincorporated, Stelzer ruled, and thus, the development review powers weren’t properly transferred. The judge ruled the association never had standing to sue over development review in the first place. A day after that ruling, the two sides settled.
What a waste of time and money. And we had to put up with a ~6 month delay for this stupiidy.
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Sorry, what delay are you alluding to?quincunx wrote: ↑May 22, 2023What a waste of time and money. And we had to put up with a ~6 month delay for this stupiidy.
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Construction delay was multi layered with this lawsuit being a portion of it. It’s done now though and Expo is a far superior development.quincunx wrote:The delay in construction.
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now i hope and pray that retail will be leased soon but more and more it is looking like a pipe dream.LArchitecture wrote: ↑May 23, 2023Construction delay was multi layered with this lawsuit being a portion of it. It’s done now though and Expo is a far superior development.quincunx wrote:The delay in construction.
I am seeing tenants in their balconies along DeBaliviere....what a great welcoming sight! I believe their leases started from June 1. Now I want to see their retail space get leased out and in service soon...
Any updates on the retail front?
Any updates on the retail front?
$518k building permit application submitted for a coffee shop. The address is the north building. I figured it would be in the south building.
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thank you!quincunx wrote: ↑Jun 10, 2023$518k building permit application submitted for a coffee shop. The address is the north building. I figured it would be in the south building.
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I hate to say it, but this Fields Foods location has been such a disappointment. It’s essentially unshoppable at this point. Half empty shelves and most, if not all, of the hot/prepared food is closed indefinitely.
I’m hopeful it can improve if we can continue to add more tenants in the nearby apartments and the store traffic picks up.
I’m hopeful it can improve if we can continue to add more tenants in the nearby apartments and the store traffic picks up.
They haven't tried very hard, indeed disappointing. I bought some green bananas two weeks ago. They never ripened. It's like they're petrified. I wonder what they went through to get like that. Too much heat?
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Yeah I was really disappointed that Fields opened there. They just don’t have a good track record and the space really otherwise would be great for plenty of other grocers.
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Are any of their locations usable? They're more like a giant convenience store masquerading as a grocery store.
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Yeah it’s disappointing. I walk by daily and the only time I use it is if I forget to take meat out to thaw, otherwise I still go to Sam’s and Schnucks because I’ll find everything I need. Their point system is terrible too imo. As a transplant I’d sell an arm, leg, my cat, and my soul to get a Hy-Vee in the metro.
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I have same experience. Aren't they paying a lot for the lease? Why aren't they interested in attracting more customers? I heard that you can give feedback on what specific items you are looking for.
I saw a flyer saying that hot food is available from 11 to 8 pm. Isn't that the case? I saw it just yesterday inside store.Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑Jul 16, 2023I hate to say it, but this Fields Foods location has been such a disappointment. It’s essentially unshoppable at this point. Half empty shelves and most, if not all, of the hot/prepared food is closed indefinitely.
I’m hopeful it can improve if we can continue to add more tenants in the nearby apartments and the store traffic picks up.
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Every FF since Lafayette Sq has been worse then the previous one
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I lived in in Benton Park for 6+ years. My wife and I loved the FF in LS. Great neighborhood grocer. Moved to CWE shortly before that location opened. I think pandemic hurt it a bit, but it turned to hell fast. Salad bar became a "airplane" booze bottle buffet. pretty much a package liquor store before it closed.
The problem with grocery is that you stock what people buy.
The problem with grocery is that you stock what people buy.