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Located just 1,000 feet from MetroLink’s Grand Station and across the highway from City Foundry (another huge success), the pedestrian experience is a complete afterthought for the Armory. The Armory opened at the end of 2022 to much skepticism about how successful it would be. Advertised as a massive indoor entertainment venue, the new concept […]

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Recently, NextSTL ran Revisiting the Chouteau Lake and Greenway Plan and Imagining a Traffic Free Corridor.  In that article, I discussed the plan’s merits, questions involving its demise, and its continued prospects for transforming the Mill Creek rail valley.   The plan’s creator, developer Richard Baron, Co-founder and Chairman of McCormack Baron Salazar, reached out and […]

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Despite all the “pain at the pump” in 2022, fuel consumption in Missouri was up slightly over 2021. I’ve been covering the situation all year – NextSTL – Missouri fuel prices peak in June, demand falls a little, more wealth leaves the state NextSTL – Fuel demand in Missouri remains robust despite “high” prices NextSTL – Near […]

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My, my how times have changed. In 2015 fresh off the heels of the proposed sales tax increase for transportation (mostly for highways) going down in flames in August of 2014, MoDOT came up with the Missouri 325 plan. It was an austerity plan based on only $325M in state funding for road construction. Many […]

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The next time you buy something in the City of St. Louis, take note of the sales tax at the bottom of the receipt. A portion of that tax has been the city’s primary means of funding infrastructure improvements since 1993. Thirty years later, the process for allocating that tax funding, called “Ward Capital,” is […]

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A 27-year-old man was killed by a driver while crossing Lucas-Hunt Road after exiting a #64 Metrobus around 11 pm last Wednesday night. The driver stayed at the scene and is spinning err cooperating with police investigators. The reportage in the Post Dispatch didn’t have much more detail, so we don’t know if the driver […]

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2616 Cherokee Street, located on the first block of Cherokee west of Jefferson in the Gravois Park neighborhood, is being rehabbed by South Side Spaces. The property, most recently occupied by Rent-to-Own furniture store Rent One, was purchased in March 2022 and will be be converted into nine units. The first floor will include three […]

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Pier Property Group of Steelcote fame is renovating the Rock Spring School at 3974 Sarpy in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. A $350k building permit application for interior demolition was submitted this week. Rock Spring School is a William B Ittner designed school built in 1898. The building is on the National Register of Historic […]

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Twenty-Four years ago St. Louis based real estate development firm McCormack Baron (now McCormack Baron Salazar) released a plan to transform the Mill Creek railyard valley near downtown.  The plan included two lakes, urban wetlands, bike trails, office, retail, and residential development within a 195-acre footprint running south of Interstate 64 along the rail corridor.  […]

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The Future64 planning effort for I-64 from Jefferson to Kingshighway is hosting a open house is today from 4-7 pm at the COLLAB at 4220 Duncan in the CORTEX District. Options for reconfiguring I-64 and nearby transportation facilities will be shown for comment by the public. Let MoDOT know that more of the same is […]

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With all the new development at DeBaliviere and Pershing bridging the Skinker DeBaliviere and DeBaliviere Place neighborhoods, it’s becoming even more clear that the intersection needs an intervention. We’re patting ourselves on the back for building Transit-Oriented Development here by the Forest Park DeBaliviere Metrolink station, on the Loop Trolley line, and on the #1 […]

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Filing closed for running for St. Louis Board of Aldermen races. The next dates in the primary election- Note with approval voting you may vote for as many candidates as you like in the primary and the top two vote getters move on to the April general. There are new and fewer wards! Be sure […]

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Construction continues in full swing at many job sites big and small. Below is a sampling. Grand and Papin – Edwin – 196 market-rate apartments, 249 affordable structured parking spaces, 65,000 square feet of retail for Target, and 141 surface parking spaces Nextstl – Target, Incentive Package For Next Steelcote Phase Come into Focus NextSTL – Steelcote […]

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2022 was another banner year for development in St. Louis. The pandemic and inflation didn’t slow things down, resulting in a record dollar amount of building permits issued surpassing 2018. In nominal terms at least. The 2018 amount adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (July 2018 to July 2022) would be $1.425B,a hair more than […]

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The agenda of today’s meeting of the Preservation Board at 4 pm includes two new builds and an appeal to demolish part of the Wells Fargo campus sold for redevelopment into hotels. Zoom link. You can comment at the meeting or submit comments in writing. First up is a 3-unit condo building at 6000 Washington […]

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The Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority Board will consider tax abatements for several developments around St. Louis at its December 13th meeting. These include the vacant 909 Chestnut, formerly the AT&T/SWBell building, the Albion at Lindell and Kingshighway, the second phase of Doorways on Jefferson, and rehab of t704 N 2nd. First is the vacant […]

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After months of seeming dormancy of the proposed not-so-grand QT gas station at Grand and Lafayette, we have our first of many steps before us to facilitate the development in the Tiffany neighborhood. This proposal is by far not the “signature development” the Midtown Redevelopment Plan called for at this location. Check out the previous […]

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Two Lux Living proposals are back before the Preservation Board at its December 5th meeting at 4pm. Update – The Preservation Board granted preliminary approval to the Engineers’ Club proposal and upheld the denial for demolition for the 1000 S Kingshighway proposal. First a revamped Engineers’ Club proposal. The seven story, 168-unit apartment building would […]

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The Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council (SDCC) will vote this month on the issue of supporting the Delmar Form-Based District. The council’s support (or lack thereof) will most likely determine whether the city adopts the FBD. In November, SDCC discussed the Delmar FBD and held a lengthy debate. As a result, the Delmar FBD steering committee […]

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Since the publication of the last part of the Moving Forward Series a lot has happened. Mayor Tishaura Jones announced a proposition to the the Board of Aldermen for an investment of at least $40 million in American Rescue Plan funds to fund a city-wide comprehensive traffic plan and funding for traffic calming on high […]

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