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June 28, 2022 St. Louis Land Tax Sale

2 years 11 months ago

The next St. Louis Land Tax Sale is June 28th. These are properties for which the owner has not paid property taxes for four years. The owner has until the last minute to pay up, so it is likely some of these will not go for sale in the end. It’s an auction with the bidding starting […]

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Richard Bose

Hotel, Condos Proposed at 10 S Central in Clayton

2 years 11 months ago

Green Street and Midas Hospitality are proposing a 25 story (294 feet tall), 600,000 square-foot building on about 0.88 acres at 10 S Central at the corner with Forsyth where World News used to operate. The architect is Green Street’s HDA Architects. The Clayton Board of Aldermen will consider the proposal at its June 14th […]

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Richard Bose

Revised Lux Living Proposal for Oakland and Kingshighway

2 years 11 months ago

Lux Living has revised their proposal for the 1000 block of South Kingshighway in the Forest Park Southeast (FPSE) neighborhood. The architect is VE Design. FPSE NA will hold a neighborhood meeting to discuss the new revision June 21st at 6:30 pm. A PDF with more details and drawings is posted on the FPSE website. […]

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Richard Bose

Groth Guide to North Hampton

2 years 11 months ago

North Hampton is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by Scanlan/59th Street/Connecticut to the north, Chippewa to the south, Kingshighway to the east and Hampton to the west. Unlike its neighbor to the south, Southampton, or SoHa, North Hampton is spelled with two words. To the best of my knowledge, there is no effort underway […]

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Mark Groth

The South Grand Community Creates A Special Use District

2 years 11 months ago

The South Grand Community Improvement District’s mission is to cultivate a robust and supportive business climate on South Grand in order to establish the Tower Grove community as the premiere urban lifestyle district in the Saint Louis Metropolitan area. The District is located just south of Tower Grove Park from Arsenal to Utah Street on […]

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Rachel Witt

Calls for tax incentive moratorium grow following federal indictments of three St. Louis City BOA members

2 years 11 months ago

St. Louis City politics dominated the local news cycle on Thursday when current Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed along with current Alderman Jeffrey Boyd and former Alderman John Collins-Muhammed faced federal indictments for racketeering and bribery. Per the indictment, it appears that all three members of the Board of Aldermen were receiving payments in […]

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Tony Nipert

National Building Arts Center Announces Summer Lecture Series

2 years 11 months ago

The National Building Arts Center in Sauget, IL is hosting a summer lecture series highlighting topics and research selected by regional subject matter experts in the building arts. The lectures are free (tickets required) and open to the public. Select areas of the NBAC campus will be made available for self-guided touring before and after […]

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The Lagosian Apartments in Lafayette Square

2 years 11 months ago

The Lagosian Apartments at 2300 LaSalle in the Lafayette Square neighborhood took another step forward after a couples years of inaction. A $3M building permit application was submitted for the five story building west of Missouri Ave. Planned are 34 apartments, each two stories, a pretty unique configuration. Surface parking would be located behind. This […]

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Richard Bose

St. Louis needs more creative solutions than demolition

3 years ago

St. Louis has a long history of believing that demolition will solve all of its social and economic woes. The 20th century saw the demolition of entire neighborhoods like the riverfront, Kosciusko, Mill Creek Valley, and Carr Square. James Neal Primm’s Lion of the Valley notes that the Post Dispatch declared that the city “voted […]

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Tony Nipert

Construction Photo Roundup May 2022

3 years ago

Construction continues in full swing at many job sites big and small. Below is a sampling. 8125 Forsyth Residence Inn Hotel 227 S Central AC Hotel Clayton NextSTL – 2019 – Updated plans submitted for AC Hotel in Clayton 8029 Forsyth Forsyth Pointe Bemiston Place 236 apartments, 10,667sf of retail 301 DeBaliviere Expo at Forest Park Will be […]

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Richard Bose

Near record demand continues despite high? gas prices

3 years ago

Last month we saw how fuel sales in Missouri have remained robust despite rising prices nearing record highs. It appeared that fuel demand was very inelastic, that Missourians are captive—in the face of price increases, Missourians for the most part have no practical substitutes. For a state which produces almost no oil and has no […]

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Richard Bose

Sowing Insolvency at 800 S 7th

3 years ago

The area south of the highway downtown has long been choking on parking and automobile infrastructure. It become a little more asphyxiated recently with the demolition of 800 S 7th Street once home to The Bird House STL later called The Batter’s Box Sports Bar. Terrence McDonald of 800 4th Street LLC and The Dent […]

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Richard Bose

1711 Locust has a new owner

3 years ago

Held by Koplar Properties since 2007, hopes for 1711 Locust in Downtown West were buoyed recently with the start of rehab of the Butler Brothers building across the street. The property was listed for sale for $100k (Koplar paid $385k in 2007 according to city records) and under contract in April. Now city records show […]

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Richard Bose

Albion West End to go before Preservation Board

3 years ago

The Preservation Board will consider preliminary approval of the Albion West End, 293 apartments with 360 parking spaces, at Lindell and Kingshighway at its Monday May 23rd meeting. The Cultural Resources staff recommends – That the Preservation Board grant preliminary approval of the project with the stipulation that final plans and exterior materials be reviewed […]

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Richard Bose

What Should Be At Olive And Lindell

3 years ago

The Flatiron @ Olive and Lindell Background Grand Center is a neighborhood whose rich, extensive history and built environment are scarred by the prejudices of the past and the suburbanization of our urban core. Hollowed out by years of total disinvestment, targeted demolition, and gross neglect, much of what is left in Midtown today is […]

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Elek Borrelli

May 24, 2022 St. Louis Land Tax Sale

3 years ago

The St. Louis Land Tax Sale is tomorrow. These are properties for which the owner has not paid property taxes for four years. The owner has until the last minute to pay up, so some of these may not go for sale in the end. It’s an auction with the bidding starting at the taxes owed. If […]

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Richard Bose

Seeking Solutions to Generations of Abandonment and Neglect

3 years ago

When buildings are not maintained or occupied, they quickly become susceptible to the elements. Think of the extremes we experience here. An unoccupied home freezing and thawing over the winter and then baking under the summer heat and humidity year after year eroding the bones and chipping away at the insides. A small hole in […]

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Mark Groth

Demo Alert: 5207 Loughborough

3 years ago

Ameren is planning to raze 5207 Loughborough in the Princeton Heights neighborhood. The company acquired the properties 5207, 5211, 5215 Loughborough in 2019, boarded them up, and submitted demolition permit applications in August of 2020. The electric utility has a substation on the triangular-shaped parcel formed by alleys and Macklind Avenue to the north. The […]

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Richard Bose

Demo Alert: 6030 Delmar Rosedale Building

3 years ago

Washington University is seeking to raze 6030 Delmar, the Rosedale Building, in the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. They say it is very unstable and is prohibitively expensive to save. WUSTL acquired the building in early 2020 from Joe Edwards, who had owned it since 2007. In 2014 part of the façade collapsed, and was repaired that […]

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Richard Bose