I actually like the first rendering of Union Club, but both are nice. Here's the website of Union Club. It's a big building.
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Construction to begin on downtown condo tower
By Riddhi Trivedi-St. Clair ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 06/01/2007 The Cityside Residences of Park Pacific will will offer 42 one-, two- and three-bedroom condominium homes, ranging in price from $283,900-$876,900. This architect's rendering shows an interior view. (The Lawrence Group) Alberici Living, a subsidiary of Overland-based Alberici Constructors will be the construction manager for Cityside Residences of Park Pacific. The $150 million project by St. Louis-based The Lawrence Group includes a historic rehab and a new construction condominium building as well as retail and commercial spaces. Construction on the building at Tucker Boulevard and Olive Street is expected to begin in mid-summer and could signal the beginning of a new wave of residential development in downtown St. Louis. Cityside Residences is one of three of three construction projects planned for downtown which has so far seen mostly historic rehab projects. The other two projects are Skyhouse at 14th Street and Washington Avenue and a 25-story condo tower adjacent to the Roberts Mayfair Hotel on Ninth Street by the Roberts Brothers Properties. Cityside will offer 42 one-, two- and three-bedroom condominium homes, ranging in price from $283,900-$876,900. Cityside will be linked to Parkside – the rehab portion of the development – by an amenity deck with a pool and fitness center, atop a nine-level parking structure for 730 cars. The residential floors will be on nine through 14 above the parking structure and feature seven units per floor. Cityside will also provide retail services on the first floor of the building. Parkside, in the former Union Pacific Railroad building offers 98 condos priced from $261,900 to $1.65 million. About 30 rental apartments will also be available. Parkside has commercial space from the second to sixth floors and retail on the first floor. Construction and renovation in Parkside also begins mid-summer. Source The Cityside Residences of Park Pacific |
^A rendering of the project in the previous article.
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it's a shame the cityside part wasn't larger. i know there will be a bounty of condos from the old upac building but the new one seems so completely dominated by the parking garage (which, by the way, looks fairly good from renderings, not that i'm condoning the fact that they didn't bother to put any levels below grade). an even bigger factor that confuses me is, if they want to have cityside residences with a view, every resident will have to get on their toes to see over the shameful 8com slab right across the street and whatever the slab a block south is. too bad.
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Saw the picture of the Four Seasons Hotel
Sorry I'm a pledge...what is "cladding"?
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Those godforsaken bastard(s) are torching our new construction again! :hell:
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Renderings of Old Post Office Plaza in downtown St. Louis. Old Post Office Square has about $700-million in new and renovated projects completed or under construction. Construction on the new plaza is set to start next month.
The OPO Plaza will be adjacent to the new 24-story Roberts Tower, the first "green" condo high-rise in St. Louis. http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984425.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984426.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984427.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984428.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984430.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984431.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984432.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984433.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/80984434.jpg Source, bsnarchitects.com |
Rumor has it that Centene will leave in a huff, and is being actively courted by cities in other states. This begs the question of WTF is wrong with putting their new headquarters in Downtown St. Louis? I'm sure a handsome incentive package would be forthcoming from city hall.
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Bruce Development is renovating the old downtown Best Western hotel for $12-million renovation. It will become the Washington Avenue Apartments. There will be 95-rental units.
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$100-million project planned for Midtown St. Louis
McCormack Baron, SLU plan on Grand
St. Louis Business Journal - June 29, 2007 by Lisa R. Brown Saint Louis University and developer McCormack Baron Salazar are partnering on a $100 million plan to transform the intersection of Grand and Lindell, which is a main entry into the Grand Center arts and entertainment district. McCormack Baron's proposal for a 400,000-square-foot mixed-use development on 4.3 acres owned by the university calls for 100 condos, 155,000 square feet of retail space and 100,000 square feet of office space. McCormack Baron plans to move its corporate headquarters and 300 employees from 1415 Olive St. downtown to about half the new office space upon completion in 2009. Part of the retail component includes plans for a multiscreen movie theater. "Our hope is this will be a transformative project that will finally bring people to this area of the city," said Richard Baron, co-founder, chairman and chief executive of the real estate development firm. "We think the housing component is an important ingredient to provide more energy to the district." The property, zoned for commercial use, is located in an $80 million tax increment finance district created in 2002. The university has sought for several years to develop the site, which includes a vacant parcel at the northeast corner of Grand and Lindell and a vacant lot north of the corner parcel at Olive and Theresa. The property is next to Pyramid Cos.' $30 million redevelopment of the Metropolitan building into a Hyatt Place hotel and is the gateway into Grand Center, which includes the Fox Theatre and Powell Symphony Hall. The Grand and Lindell project will be McCormack Baron's third major project in the North Grand Boulevard area. In recent years, the company has completed work on the multiphase Blumeyer Housing Complex redevelopment, renamed the Renaissance at Grand, which totaled more than $100 million in development. McCormack Baron also is redeveloping the former Woolworth building at 501 N. Grand Blvd. into a new home for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri. That project totals more than $10 million. The development team McCormack Baron is interviewing two architectural firms, TEN Arquitectos and Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K), for the project at Grand and Lindell. EE&K is based in New York City, and TEN Arquitectos has offices in New York and Mexico City. Both firms have experience designing facilities in academic settings. A general contractor has not yet been selected for the project, which is set to get under way in spring 2008. McCormack Baron is partnering on the project with Philadelphia-based U3 Ventures, led by principal Omar Blaik. Source |
This would be a really big deal for the riverfront area in South St. Louis city.
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We can officially add to the list the future Centene Corporation World Headquarters in downtown St. Louis. Major new 700,000 sq. ft. office tower with an additional 550,000 planned in a seperate tower on top of 2 stories of retail and 1750 parking spaces. First tower looks to be at least 400 feet tall, possibly approaching the 500 foot range. In addition, a third tower (details still unknown, most likely the 250 condo units which are a part of phase 1 of Ballpark Village) is shown in the initial models of BPV supplied by Centene. Height looks to be also around 450-500 feet. BIG NEWS FOR STL!!!
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Great news for St.Louis.this should shift the skyline further to the south.
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Damn I really need to update the first post in this thread it's 2 years out of date!
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More Big News
Major retail district announced for downtown By Riddhi Trivedi-St. Clair ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 09/26/2007 http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/...rel27flash.jpg Architectural rendering of "The Laurel," a proposed redevelopment of the Dillard's store on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis The developer of the much anticipated St. Louis Centre renovation has announced plans for a broader $400 million hotel, condo and shopping district and tapped a prominent national company to help find retailers. The district is an expansion of the $280 million St. Louis Centre renovation proposed last year by St. Louis-based Pyramid Cos. General Growth Properties, the nation’s second largest publicly-traded real estate investment company, will handle retail leasing for the project. The company owns and operates the Saint Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights and Water Tower Place in Chicago. The district, called the Mercantile Exchange, will include several buildings, all but one of which is owned by Pyramid and its partner, Spinnaker Real Estate Partners LLC of Connecticut. • St. Louis Centre and the office tower on top, One City Centre, at 6th Street and Washington Avenue. The two will be renamed the Concord. • The Mercantile Library building at 6th and Locust streets. • The Macy’s building, formerly known as Railway Exchange Building. The building is owned by Cincinnati-based May Department Stores. Advertisement • The former Dillard’s building at Washington Avenue and 7th Street, will be renamed the Laurel. The plan for Mercantile Exchange calls for 160,000 square feet of new retail, a 216-room hotel, 525,000 square feet of office space, as well as 175 condos and 120 luxury apartments. The hotel, the apartments and 74 condos will be in the 580,000-square-foot Laurel building. The district has about 1,200 parking spaces. "We are starting now. Our goal is to have people moving in by end of next year," said John Steffen, chief executive of Pyramid. "In three years, we will see significant completion; in four years, a substantial portion will be completed, and in five years, it will be done." This is the second major development announced this week for downtown St. Louis. Clayton-based Centene Corp. said Sunday it will moving its headquarters to Ballpark Village in downtown. Centene’s $250 million development will add up to 1.2 million square feet of office space, 50,000 to 75,000 square feet of retail space as well as a hotel Ballpark Village. That is in addition to the condos, 360,000 square feet of retail and 100,000 square feet of office already committed by Baltimore-based Cordish Co., developers of Ballpark Village. Centene’s move will bring 1,200 new jobs to downtown. The Laurel, will be the first portion of Steffen’s project to get underway with a grand opening scheduled for Thursday. The skybridge over Washington Avenue will be demolished in spring of 2008 with construction on the Concord building beginning in the summer. The skybridge linking the building to Macy’s on the other side will be demolished later in 2008. Given the renaissance already underway in downtown, Steffen said, this is the perfect time for a retail district. "Downtown is on an upswing and we can push the momentum up," Steffen said. "We are not working against the momentum as we were 20 years ago when downtown was going downward, this time we are working with the upward momentum." Steffen said the time was right because downtown population has grown quickly in recent years. The population is estimated today at 10,000 to 13,000. Downtown, he said, has a overall healthy condo and loft market. Downtown also attracts a large number of business and leisure travelers. The retail district will be anchored by the existing Macy’s, Steffen said, and added that Chicago-based General Growth would work to bring national retailers to downtown St. Louis. General Growth owns, develops, operates and manages more than 200 regional malls in 44 states. The company is the largest third-party manager of regional malls. The company has 4,700 employees and its malls have 24,000 retail and department stores as well as theaters, restaurants and entertainment venues. Being able to bring a company like General Growth to downtown St. Louis is a monumental accomplishment, said Mayor Francis Slay. "It is a big company that does business in 44 states and they have recognized the potential and opportunity in St. Louis," Slay said. At least 70 new restaurants and local businesses have opened in downtown in the last five years, Slay said, and what the city needs now is the kind of mainstream retailers that General Growth can bring to the market place. "I am thrilled that one of the nation’s largest and most successful retail developers is coming to St. Louis," Slay said. His goal for Mercantile Exchange is to have boutique-type stores on top of national retailers, Steffen said. Steffen also wants to have dining and entertainment venues in the district. The development includes an extensive upgrade in streetscape. Steffen has secured $30 million in tax incentives under the state’s Downtown Economic Stimulus Act. Those improvements will extend not only to Steffen’s project but will cover landscaping for about two-thirds of downtown streets, said Barbara Geisman, deputy mayor for development. "That will allow people to visually tie the pedestrian areas together from the landscaping and bring all the projects together," she said. The project also will receive $85 million in city tax breaks, Geisman said. The Mercantile Exchange will complement other developments already planned for downtown, Steffen said, including Ballpark Village, Centene’s new development, and Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.’s new casino, Lumière Place, on Laclede’s Landing. The hope is that all of them together will create greater density and draw more people to downtown, Steffen said. "Let’s hope that someday we get to the point where tax incentives are no longer needed to get projects like this done in downtown," Steffen said. |
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Light-rail line could share city streets
By Ken Leiser ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 10/01/2007 St. Louis — Regional planners see a future where trains could share the road with cars through St. Louis neighborhoods and the downtown business district. have drawn plans for a nearly 17-mile path where a light-rail MetroLink line would run from Goodfellow Boulevard and Interstate 70 in the north to Bayless Avenue in the south. It would wind through downtown St. Louis, reach Interstate 55 and Jefferson Avenue and then follow the I-55 right of way to Bayless. But, local officials warn, the dream has a long way to go before it ever becomes reality. The plan has a price tag approaching $1 billion — in 2007 dollars — and, as of now, no money. It also comes at a time when the agency that runs MetroLink has warned that it will need more money just to operate what it already has. Advertisement For the new 17-mile line, the region would first have to prepare environmental studies, compete for federal money and raise a significant local share of the cost. Elected leaders sitting on the East-West Gateway Council of Governments later this month will take up the idea. "This could happen," St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said last week. "Funding is a huge issue here. If we wait until the funding is available to start the planning, we'll be left out. There is a lot of competition at the federal level for funds for mass transit." East-West Gateway hired HNTB Corp., a transportation consultant, to work on the proposal. Kenneth Kinney, director of transit planning for HNTB, told the council last week that the line was drawn up after public meetings and talks with St. Louis political leaders and city staff. Several corridors in the region are being eyed for future light-rail growth. The 17-mile line through the city would have to jockey for position with other local plans. St. Louis County, for instance, is preparing to ask voters to increase the county sales taxes up to a half-cent to help fund MetroLink expansion in the county. Metro, the agency that operates MetroLink, buses and paratransit services in the area, opened an eight-mile line from Forest Park to Shrewsbury last year and has warned that it needs additional money to continue its existing operations. In this latest proposal, the concept is for light-rail trains to run alongside cars, Kinney said, "not in mixed traffic like the old street car, but in separate rights of way on streets." On the north side, trains would run from Goodfellow down Natural Bridge Avenue to North Florissant Avenue to 14th Street. It would run "through the heart" of commercial and residential neighborhoods, Kinney said, and could stimulate future development. Once it reached downtown St. Louis, MetroLink would continue to run on two parallel tracks before splitting into separate one-way tracks at Ninth and 10th streets. Kinney said the proposed alignment was the "cleanest, simplest" approach to serve downtown. From downtown, the alignment would follow Chouteau and Jefferson avenues before running alongside I-55. "We would not be running in the median of (Interstate) 55, but we would be on one side or the other in order to be physically and psychologically closer to residential neighborhoods," he said. Chris Poehler, a project manager for Metro, said the proposed light-rail line would be separate from the existing system, using vehicles that would be slightly different from the existing trains. Those light-rail vehicles would have lower floors to accommodate street-level boarding, for instance. Tom Sullivan, spokesman for the Public Transit Accountability Project, said the proposed line is "pie in the sky" and that north St. Louis first needs good buses that run on time. "They act like reality is just something that doesn't seem part of their thinking," he said. But Slay said mass transit projects like this one would make the region "more livable" and promote economic development. "If we do not continue to focus on trying to find ways to expand our capabilities of mass transit, we will fall behind other areas," Slay said at last week's East-West Gateway meeting. kleiser@post-dispatch.com | 314-340-8215 http://www.northsouthstudy.org/OH907/s3p4LG.gif |
Riverfront
I was in st Louis a while back. Beautiful city. Love the Warehouse District. I was very disapointed in the riverfront and the connection to the city. Are there any plans to develop the park and surrounding areas more? Im from Pittsburgh and we are going thru a complete transformation of our riverfronts and connections to the city. St Louis really seems to be ignoring it's greatest asset. Check out myPittsburgh thread here
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Note: This project is different from the Old Post Office Plaza (renderings above) currently under construction.
Sculpture garden is planned for downtown By David Bonetti POST-DISPATCH VISUAL ARTS CRITIC 10/21/2007 http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/...gateway315.jpg (Nelson Byrd Landscape Architects) Picture this: a two-block sculpture park with work by internationally renowned artists. The splash of a waterfall. A cafe overlooking sunny, spacious lawns and a shady grove of river birches. That isn't downtown St. Louis. But it may be on its way. On Monday, the city's Preservation Board is expected to approve a design for the downtown Gateway Mall that will include all those features in a $20 million to $25 million sculpture garden. Architect Warren Byrd will present the final design. [snip] The design was conceived and executed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Designers of Charlottesville, Va. In a phone interview, Byrd painted a vision of an interactive park with multiple uses. It should attract visitors who are not particularly lovers of sculpture as well as those who are. "We needed to be open and inviting and accessible to everyone," he said. One goal was to make the park appealing during the steamy summer. "The combination of shade (trees) and water should make the park appealing even on the hottest summer days," Byrd said. Byrd was determined to incorporate appropriate natural and historical references into an urban, inherently artificial setting. His solution: Superimpose two plans — one geometric and rational, the other natural and organic — on each other. Byrd acknowledged that his first response was to produce a totally gridded design. That would relate to the street patterns that define the site. But the interview committee challenged him to consider something more natural. Source More renderings. http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/87644326.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/87644327.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/87644328.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/87647317.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/87647319.jpg http://www.pbase.com/stlouis_314/image/87644329.jpg |
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