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Bar K welcomed members to a soft opening at its St. Louis location on Sunday. The complex is impressive. It spans several acres and includes a variety of spaces from a groomer to a restaurant to a few different bars. There is no question this will become a very popular space for dog owners throughout […]

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The Carr Square neighborhood is located in north St. Louis. It is south of Cass, north of Cole, east of Jefferson and west of Tucker/N. 13th Street. Carr Square had a 19% decline in residents from 1990-2000. 98% of its 2,339 residents are black, 1% white and 1% Hispanic/Latino. But then from 2000-2010, the neighborhood gained 19% […]

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A new proposal by Lux Living for the Optimist building at Lindell and Taylor in the Central West End neighborhood has emerged. After withholding preliminary approval by the Preservation Board in August, Lux hired HOK to create a design that keeps the pavilion building, razes the taller bit to the east, and builds around it. […]

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Today, the Board of Aldermen for the City of St. Louis is expected to release their initial draft map of a new ward map, which will go into effect for the next round of municipal elections in 2023. The release is coming in advance of an initial round of public input hearings over the next […]

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You and your neighbors care deeply about your place. There’s a planning process to shape what could come for your place over the next decades. You all attend the meetings, the charrettes, read the draft documents, mark up the posters, affix the Post-It notes, talk with your neighbors, your neighborhood association, the consultant, city staff, […]

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A new proposal for 5612 Waterman at Clara dubbed The Marigold in the DeBaliviere Place neighborhood goes before the Preservation Board Monday. 4th Street Partners‘s Chris Stritzel of CityScene STL fame is shepherding the project through the entitlement process (getting all the approvals in order), and then plans to hand it off to a developer […]

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Update Nov 8, 2021 – More/updated renderings The holy grail for Delmar Loop fans may arrive in a few years. Opus Group plans a 14-story building at the southeast corner of Delmar and Skinker in the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. Opus used their in-house architects. Well before and especially since the closure of Church’s Chicken in […]

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The October 27th agenda for the St. Louis Board of Adjustment gives some hints about potential development on the Pruitt-Igoe site by Clayco in the Carr Square neighborhood at Jefferson and Carr as reported by the Post-Dispatch in September. StlToday – McKee, Clayco plan office buildings and hotel on Pruitt-Igoe site near new NGA headquarters […]

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The picture is becoming clearer for the next phase of the burgeoning Steelcote Square development by Pier Property Group northeast of Grand and Chouteau in the Midtown neighborhood. As reported last Saturday by NextSTL (h/t to Urbanitas in the urbanstl.com forum), the tenant is indeed expected to be the rumored and hoped for Target. The […]

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A community improvement district (CID) is proposed for the newest phase of the burgeoning Steelcote development northeast of Grand and Chouteau in the Midtown neighborhood. The Steelcote Square CID, if Board Bill 110, introduced by Alderwoman Davis, is approved by the Board of Aldermen, signed by the Mayor, and approved by property owners in the […]

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The Preservation Board agenda for their September 27th meeting has several developments for consideration. There’s an expansion of the Rung Foundation in Fox Park, a new funeral home on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in The Ville, and a few infill projects. Infill is a boost to the solvency of a city because the land is rendered […]

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Narwhal’s Crafted, a master mixologist’s version of a frozen drink emporium with locations in Midtown and St. Charles and Loaded Elevated Nachos, is planning to anchor the east end of the Grove in dramatic fashion. Scalene Solutions LLC (get it?) purchased the property from Koman Group last October. Their original plan presented in September 2020 […]

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The Grim Reaper has been spotted on the 4500 block of Manchester in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. Demolition permits have been pulled for 4534, 4358, 4540, 4544, 4552, and 4556 Manchester. The buildings are owned by Grove Properties. The vacant lot at 4542 is owned by the LRA and presumably would be acquired for […]

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