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Looking down at the Mississippi River from Bellerive Park in south St. Louis, the most prominent features aren’t eagles and egrets but barges and tows. The Port of St. Louis may lack the natural beauty of other parts of the Mississippi, but it’s a busy place. Millions of tons of bulk products move through every […]

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The Preservation Board will consider the Powell Hall expansion in Grand Center and an apartment building in the Central West End at their Monday March 28th meeting. Agenda Powell Hall renovation and expansion Snøhetta us leading the effort. Christner Architects StlToday – $100 million SLSO renovation at Powell Hall will add new lobby, learning center […]

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Koplar Properties, Albion Residential, and Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture presented their proposal for a $135M, 30-story, 293-unit luxury apartment building at Lindell and Kingshighway to the community last night at the Chase. They launched a website for the proposal – www.4974lindell.com Sam Koplar said the family had waited so long to develop the site not due […]

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Charles Deutsch and Company is proposing an apartment building on a 6.2 acre site south of Delmar to the west I-170 in University City dubbed the Avenir. The five-story building would be comprised of 262 apartments and a 1,300 square foot coffee shop. There are planned 185 one-bedroom, 69 two-bedroom, and 8 three-bedroom units. There […]

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Koplar Properties and Albion Residential of Chicago are proposing a 30-story $135M building with 293 apartments at the corner of Lindell and Kingshighway in the Central West End neighborhood. The site at the northeast corner of Forest Park has long begged the question, “when is something going to happen here?” With each economic expansion and […]

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Mark Twain/I-70 Industrial is a north St. Louis neighborhood bound by I-70 to the north, Natural Bridge to the south, the city limits to the west and Kingshighway to the east. The 2000 census data counted 1,361 residents (down 14% from 1990’s count) of whom 74% were black, 24% white and 1% Asian. There were […]

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Hi-Pointe is a southwest St. Louis neighborhood located south of Clayton Road and Oakland Avenue, east of the city limits, north of Dale Avenue and west of Louisville Avenue. The 2000 Census data showed a decline in Hi-Pointe population of 7%, down to 2,454 residents: 86% white, 7% black, 3% Asian and 2% Hispanic/Latino. There were […]

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The March 23rd University City Plan Commission meeting will consider a proposal by Opus  Development Company to construct a 76,750-square-foot warehouse, retail showroom, and offices for Crescent Plumbing Supply Company at Olive and Kingsland. They plan to move in in mid-2023. The properties at 6610 Olive, 6662 Olive, and 950 Kingsland are owned by Washington […]

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Let’s take a look at developments in Downtown and Downtown West starting at the river and heading west. The Traders Lofts ate 801-805 N 2nd Street will contain 20 apartments, and 5,395 sf of retail/office space. Still no building permit application. The Hoffman Lofts (left) at 700-702 N 2nd Street will contain 24 apartments, 8,136 […]

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In the 1995 Forest Park Master Plan that has guided much of the park’s improvements over the last 25 years, there was no mention of basketball courts. It’s sort of unfathomable that a 1,300 acre park with 13 million visitors per year (6th most for urban parks in the nation) had no intentions to provide […]

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The last two generations have not been kind to many of the fragments in St. Louis County. The population losses of St. Louis City have been closely tracked and well publicized. The city lost 320,000 residents (-51.5%) between 1970-2020. NextSTL – 2016 – Failure of Fragmentation: St. Louis County Population Loss While there is endless […]

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A major overhaul of one of St. Louis’s high-crash roads cut the number of deadly crashes, improved pedestrian safety, but still has a long way to go. A year-long overhaul of Natural Bridge Avenue in St. Louis City has led to a 65% decrease in injuries and deaths but raises other questions about road safety […]

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Construction continues in full swing at many job sites big and small. Below is a sampling.

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I didn’t think I was going to be able to write another post like this this year since the Missouri Legislature passed a fuel tax increase last session after voters rejected a sales tax increase in 2014 and a fuel tax increase in 2018. For the first time in 25 years, the state’s fuel tax […]

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St. Louis’s controversial decision to vote down a resolution that would have banned legislators from voting over Zoom while driving — a measure which one lawmaker debated while actively operating a car — is sparking a heated conversation about distracted driving, and how little America does to stop it. Last week, the St. Louis Board […]

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Franz Park is a south St. Louis neighborhood roughly bound by Dale to the north and east, Manchester to the south and the city limits to the west. The 2000 census data counted 2,621 residents (down 10% from 1990’s count) of whom 11% were black, 85% white, 1% Asian and 2% Hispanic/Latino. There were 1,318 […]

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Crowned by Streetsblog readers in 2015, America’s Sorriest Bus Stop is no more. The stop ran away with the title, garnering 42% of the votes in a field of eight. Streetsblog – St. Louis Stunner Runs Away With the Vote for America’s Sorriest Bus Stop The stop was removed as part of a bus system […]

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Lindenwood Park is a southwest neighborhood of St. Louis south of Arsenal, north of Chippewa, east of I-44 and the city limits and west of Hampton. Lindenwood Park lost 3% of it’s residents from 1990-2000 where 10,207 were counted, 95% white, 2% black, 2% Hispanic/Latino, 1% Asian. 96% of its 5,032 housing units are occupied, 71% […]

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178 people have died as a result of traffic violence in 2021. For the 4th year in a row pedestrian fatalities have risen in the City of St. Louis and for the first time, total traffic fatalities eclipsed 100 in St. Louis County. Trailnet, a local walking and biking advocacy non-profit, believes that all traffic […]

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On Sunday, The New York Times wrote that “the next affordable city is already too expensive.” The article provided some important cautionary tales about constraints on housing supply and the tensions between old-timers and newcomers borne from housing scarcity. Spokane, Washington, “the next affordable city” saw its home prices rise 60% in the last two […]

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