This project will rise in The Grove/Manchester Strip area - a few blocks from the new IKEA and CORTEX.
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Chouteau’s Grove Development Drops Grocer, Sheds Units, Gains Better Design)
Green Street Development plans to begin construction late this year on its redesigned Chouteau’s Grove, which no longer has the supermarket of the initial plan.
Brian Pratt, Green Street’s vice president of development, said Tuesday the company was unable to lure a grocery to the $61 million project planned for the eastern end of the Grove nightlife district in St. Louis.
Green Street pitched the site to “fresh grocery concept” operators but all replied the area needs more residents to support such a store, he said.
The redesigned Chouteau’s Grove has 271 market-rate apartments, about 20 more than the initial $85 million plan Green Street announced in November.
With a 30,000-square-foot grocery off the drawing board, Green Street revamped the 4.5-acre site to give the project a more urban look. Instead of having a parking lot to accommodate grocery customers, the new plan rings much of the site with a four-story apartment building that wraps around a parking garage.
“It will feel very urban, unlike an urban-suburban blend like we had before to attract a grocer,” Pratt said.
About 100 of the garage’s 565 parking spots will be set aside for the public and to serve the 20,000 square feet of retail space planned as part of the project’s new plan.
Humphreys & Partners, of Dallas, is the project’s architect. The firm also designed the Cortona apartments completed last year at the Highlands development near Forest Park. Like the Cortona, Chouteau’s Grove will have an exterior that includes fiber cement panels of various colors.
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