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Having watched every publication use the Loop Trolley as clickbait, I wade into this conversation with some trepidation. I have a complex view of the Loop Trolley as it sits garaged today. On the one hand, I think the Loop Trolley should never have been built as a heritage streetcar. I can’t help but look […]

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Academy is a north St. Louis neighborhood bound by Martin Luther King Drive to the north, Delmar Boulevard to the south, Union Boulevard to the west and Kingshighway Boulevard to the east. The 2000 census data counted 3,797 residents (down 32% from 1990’s count) of whom 98% were black, 1% white. There were 1,729 housing […]

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St. Louis was once the nation’s premiere streetcar city. The maps below show just how extensively the streetcars gridded the city to meet transportation needs. The St. Louis Car Company produced the most widely used street cars in the country. As cars reigned supreme over St. Louis streets in the post-war period, the streetcars became […]

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A big thanks to our entrants for putting in the time and summoning the courage to subject their proposals to the scrutiny of our audience. Their entries all “eliminate facilities that create the image and reality of the Redevelopment Area being obsolete and blighted,” whereas a gas station does neither. And thanks to everyone reading […]

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It’s no “superstar city,” but St. Louis is catching the eye of folks across the nation seeking to improve their quality of life. Who’s looking? In the 3rd Quarter of 2021, St. Louis saw 21% of housing searches coming from outside of the area. High-cost coastal cities dominated the top of the list in addition […]

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Lux Living is proposing to redevelop the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis building at 4359 Lindell in the Central West End neighborhood. Lux is seeking a preliminary review by the Preservation Board at their December 20th meeting at 4pm. The public may attend and typically can comment on the items before the board. Cultural Resources […]

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I’m proposing a 6-story ‘urban’ style QukTrip. The building will use the entire currently empty parcel between Lafayette and McRee Ave. The ground floor will be a typical QuikTrip store, but will be positioned at the sidewalk with direct access to the main door. The gas pumps will be behind with access from side streets (Lafayette […]

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A $3M building permit application was submitted in October by City Restorations LLC for 28 townhomes over two buildings at the northeast corner of Bruno and Forest Ave in the Franz Park neighborhood. In addition a $900k building permit application for a parking lot was submitted in November. The project went out to bidding which […]

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A $640k building permit application has been submitted by SWG Tiny Homes LLC for a set of four townhomes at 4603-09 Cleveland Ave near Vandeventer in the Southwest Garden neighborhood. Sorry no rendering yet.

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This entry was submitted by Cameron Strickland, Marcellus Johnson, Hallie Nolan, and Karl Schulz.

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Zeppa on Grand Zeppa on Grand, named after the Italian word for wedge, is a groundbreaking mixed-use mid-rise in the heart of south St. Louis, whose intricate scalloped façade works to create unique, comfortable interior spaces for its inhabitants. Sandwiched between some of St. Louis’ most vibrant neighborhoods and commercial districts, Zeppa works to redefine […]

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A 42-unit mixed-use residential building is proposed at the corner of Grand and Lafayette in the Tiffany neighborhood of St. Louis. Planned is a five-story building with 95,000 square feet of community amenities, retail space, and 42 residential units across three floors. The development aspires to be the Tiffany neighborhood’s central hub and sets forth […]

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Peabody Darst Webbe is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by Tucker Boulevard/12th Street to the east, Dolman Street to the west, Chouteau Avenue to the north and I-55/I-44 to the south. I always thought Truman Parkway was the border between Peabody Darst Webbe and Lafayette Square. Not so. The 2000 census counted 1,460 residents […]

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A couple comments to Mark Groth’s Heal the Grid a Forest Park Southeast Success Story suggested that St. Louis’s street blockages enhanced walkanility. Let’s take a deep dive. #Healthegrid isn’t just about the blockages While street blockages are the most prevalent, the grid has been injured in other ways. By highways, superblocks, and parking. Like […]

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History of the Des Peres River and Construction Des Peres Avenue cuts through the middle of the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood like a scar. Originally an open river with treacherous banks during the flooding season, it was buried underground in the 1930s. Today, the only hints it still exists are the street signs and the rumored […]

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Aldermen are hosting a meeting Monday, December 13th to discuss traffic calming measures. Be sure to attend to throw in your two cents. Decades of government-coerced driving dependency has resulted in a public health and safety crisis. Many of our straods, deadly by design, desperately need an overhaul and conversion into streets. The city and […]

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The total amount of building permits issued in the city of St. Louis reached an all time high today (in nominal dollars). Something that has been vexing me about the last few years as we’ve tracked the building permits is that it’s in spite of the high murder rate. The number of murders increased from […]

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The Skinker/Debaliviere neighborhood is a south-central neighborhood of St. Louis located south of Delmar, north of Forsyth/Lindell, west of DeBaliviere and east of the city limits. I couldn’t figure out exactly where the western city limits are drawn; but I’ll use my usual tricks of street pavements and city dumpsters to establish St. Louis from […]

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The St. Louis Board of Aldermen assigned ward numbers and passed a ward map today, BB 101. Candidates will run for 2 year terms in odd-numbered wards and for 4 year terms in even-numbered wards in 2023. After that even and odd wards will have elections every four years as their terms come up. NextSTL […]

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Southwest Garden is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by I-44 and McRee Avenue to the north, Tower Grove Park, the Missouri Botanical Gardens and South Kingshighway to the east, Scanlan Avenue and Connecticut Street to the south, Hampton Avenue to the west and Columbia/Southwest Avenues to the north and east: 5,745 residents were counted in […]

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