ST. LOUIS & CLAYTON | Project Rundown

[sbarn]

There are some great projects going on in St. Louis. That new central library is spectacular!!!

[Arch City]

Here's an update on two premium outlet malls going up in suburban Chesterfield, which is about 25-minutes from downtown St. Louis. Typical designs, however, what makes these centers unique is that they are going up simultaneously - just miles apart. The two competing centers are expected to draw shoppers from throughout Missouri, as well as from the border states of Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee plus southern Indiana.

Taubman Prestige Outlets, Chesterfield

Taubman Prestige Outlets, a $150 million development on North Outer 40 east of Boone’s Crossing, is being developed by Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Taubman Centers and Warren, N.J.-based OutletPartners LLC.

Taubman Prestige Outlets Chesterfield, an upper-moderate fashion outlet mall, will celebrate its Grand Opening on August 2, 2013.

The open-air, village-style property will feature 310,000 square feet of retail space in Phase I.

Its family focus environment, dog-friendly hospitality, and access to the levee fitness trail will create a unique retail experience and make it a shopping destination for locals and visitors alike.

Stores announced include: Banana Republic Factory Store; Gap Outlet; J.Crew Factory; Furla; Anne Fontaine; Brooks Brothers Factory Store; 2b Bebe; American Eagle Outfitters - Off Campus; Lucky Brand Jeans; Nine West; Ed Hardy; Body Shop; Jones New York; Carter's; Designer Fragrance Outlet; Easy Spirit; Elegante; Famous Footwear; Hot Topic; Kasper; Thomas Sabo; Aerosoles; Bachrach Outlet; Kitchen Collection; Maidenform; Motherhood Maternity; Ultra Diamonds; Naturalizer; Osh Kosh B'gosh; Billabong; Mikino/Mikino Men's; Gloria Jean's Coffee; Robert Wayne; Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; Saucony; T-Mobile; Things Remembered; Sunglass Hut; Time Center USA, and AT&T.





















St. Louis Premium Outlets, Chesterfield

St. Louis Premium Outlets, a $100 million project on the south side of Highway 40 east of the Daniel Boone Bridge, is being developed by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group and Fort Worth, Texas-based Woodmont Outlets.

85 OUTLET STORES. List of stores announced to date:

Adidas, Ann Taylor, Asics, Bass, BCBG Max Azria, Brooks Brothers, Carter’s, Charlotte Russe, Claire’s Accessories, Clarks Bostonian, Cole Haan, Converse, Crabtree and Evelyn, Easy Spirit, Elie Tahari, Famous Footwear, Finish Line, Fragrance Outlet, Fox Racing, Gold Toe, Gymboree, Haggar Clothing Co., Hanesbrands, Hartstrings, Hot Topic, Izod, J.Crew, Jockey, Jos. A. Bank, Jones New York, Kay Jewelers, Kitchen Collection, Lids, Loft Outlet, Maidenform, Max Studio, Motherhood Maternity, Naturalizer, Nike, Nine West, Reebok, Rue21, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, Samsonite, Sarar,Skechers, Sperry Top-Sider, Sunglass Hut, Sunglass Warehouse, Tommy Hilfiger, Ultra Diamonds, Under Armour, Van Heusen, Vera Bradley, Yankee Candle, Wilsons Leather and more.














The outlet malls are going up along a four-mile stretch of the already heavily-retailed I-64/U.S. 40 corridor in the Chesterfield Valley.

[Busy Bee]

^And then there's that.

[Arch City]

An update on the new five-story, 275,000-square-foot Cortona at Forest Park, which will contain 276 apartment units, a clubhouse and courtyard pool with cabana. These exceptional luxury units will be situated within the Highlands at Forest Park located off of I-64/40 in close proximity to the shopping, dining, and cultural facilities of Forest Park, the Central West End and Clayton.

It's to be amongst the last two buildings planned for the mixed-use business park.


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photo credit: Balke-Brown Transwestern

[Arch City]

Apartments coming to Millennium Center downtown
6 hours ago • By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
04/12/13


Millennium Center, seen next to Macy's/T-Rex and Metropolitan Square Tower.


See on Google Streetview: Millennium Center


ST. LOUIS • Downtown’s first glass-walled office tower has a new owner who plans to relocate existing tenants to lower floors and renovate the higher floors as apartments.

Developer Brian Hayden completed his purchase of the Millennium Center last week and hopes to have some apartments ready for tenants by late summer in the 51-year-old building. The entire project is scheduled for completion in 2014.

Hayden, who redid last year a former downtown hotel as apartments, said that despite several other residential projects under way or planned, the area’s market has room to grow.

“I think that if you plopped a thousand apartments downtown right now you’d fill them up by the end of July,” he said.

At his newly purchased Millennium Center, 515 Olive Street, Hayden plans 102 one- and two-bedroom apartments on the top 11 floors of the 20-story building. Office tenants will be consolidated on floors two through nine.

The Millennium Center, originally the Executive Office Building, is downtown’s first structure featuring a lightweight, glass curtain-wall facade. The Modern Movement-style tower, designed by the Chicago firm of A. Epstein & Sons and completed in 1962, was the first big building erected in downtown St. Louis since the Depression.

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[Arch City]

Stamping Lofts to open Wednesday
3 hours ago • By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stamping Lofts, the housing component of a planned indoor fish farm and other urban agriculture endeavors, is set to open tomorrow afternoon in an old factory north of downtown St. Louis.

Developer Craig Heller is behind the project of 56 low-income studio apartments in what had been the St. Louis Stamping Co. building, constructed in 1870. The housing is part of a development called FarmWorks, which will focus on aquaponics, hydroponics, vermiculture and vertical growing systems.

Gateway Greening, a nonprofit organization, and St. Patrick Center will help Stamping Lofts residents grow and market FarmWorks' products. Novus International, a producer of animal health and nutrition products, will assist with aquaponics, fingerling production and fish processing.

Mayor Francis Slay and Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel are among those scheduled to speak at the Stamping Lofts opening.

The project overcame a wind storm in that in March 2012 blew down part of the four-story brick building at 219 Cass Avenue. Heller said then that the setback wouldn't halt the project.

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All photos by pasa47/flickr.com

[sbarn]

Originally Posted by Arch City

Stamping Lofts to open Wednesday
3 hours ago • By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stamping Lofts, the housing component of a planned indoor fish farm and other urban agriculture endeavors, is set to open tomorrow afternoon in an old factory north of downtown St. Louis.

Developer Craig Heller is behind the project of 56 low-income studio apartments in what had been the St. Louis Stamping Co. building, constructed in 1870. The housing is part of a development called FarmWorks, which will focus on aquaponics, hydroponics, vermiculture and vertical growing systems.

Gateway Greening, a nonprofit organization, and St. Patrick Center will help Stamping Lofts residents grow and market FarmWorks' products. Novus International, a producer of animal health and nutrition products, will assist with aquaponics, fingerling production and fish processing.

Mayor Francis Slay and Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel are among those scheduled to speak at the Stamping Lofts opening.

The project overcame a wind storm in that in March 2012 blew down part of the four-story brick building at 219 Cass Avenue. Heller said then that the setback wouldn't halt the project.

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This is an awesome project.

Yeah those outlet malls... not so much.

[Arch City]

Originally Posted by sbarn

Yeah those outlet malls... not so much.

Well, I think they are good projects. The designs are typical - not particularly spectacular - however the benefit of the outlet centers as stated are:

#1. The hundreds of construction and permanent jobs they are creating will be a big boost to the local economy.

#2. The developers planning these centers expect them to be a huge tourism draw from surrounding states. More tourism spending will be a big boost for the local economy.

#3. St. Louisans now have quality premium outlets within the region eliminating travel to Lake of The Ozarks.

#4. These centers and the new Daniel Boone bridge - near both centers - are likely to spark more new development in the Chesterfield Valley.

#5. The point of the photos, for the most part, were to show the scope of the individual projects, how fast they being constructed and the potential for new development around these centers.

[nature's calling]

What's up with the barren architecture of these outlet malls, especially these Tanger development? It is not inviting at all.

[Arch City]

Originally Posted by nature's calling

What's up with the barren architecture of these outlet malls.....

Barren architecture? They are not finished and won't be until August 2013.

[Arch City]

Another rehab/conversion of an old pharmaceutical building into lofts near St. Louis University in the Central Corridor/CORTEX area.
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Apr 3, 2013, 2:16pm CDT Updated: Apr 3, 2013, 3:14pm CDT
Construction under way on $10 million Laclede Lofts
Matthew Hibbard
Social Engagement Manager - St. Louis Business Journal



Construction started this week on Laclede Lofts, a $10 million redevelopment project just west of Saint Louis University.

The project, located at 3965 Laclede Ave., includes converting the old Pfeiffer Pharmaceutical Co. building into 50 luxury loft apartments. The development received approval for $2.2 million in Missouri Historic Preservation Tax Credits as well as $1.8 million in federal tax credits.

Park Central Development, Alderman Joe Roddy and the St. Louis Development Corp. facilitated a 10-year tax abatement on the project. There will be 21 one-bedroom, 25 two-bedroom and four three-bedroom apartments, along with 19 indoor parking spaces and 47 spaces in a outdoor lot separated from the building by a garden space.

One-bedroom units will average about 670 square feet and projected rent will cost $850 to $925 a month, said Jeff Winzerling, whose Universatile Development Inc. partnered with Pete Rothschild’s Rothschild Development on the project. Two-bedroom apartments will average 1,045 square feet and cost $1,400 to $1,500 a month. Three-bedroom apartments will average 1,415 square feet and cost about $2,200 a month.

[Arch City]

Shipping Container architecture has made its way to St. Louis. In recent weeks, several reused shipping container projects - including this one to be located in Old North St. Louis - just north of downtown St. Louis - are in the works.
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Used Shipping Containers Transforming into Bistro Box in Old North St. Louis This Fall
April 15, 2013 4:34 pm • Written by Barbara E. Stefano
Feast Magazine

The Sustainable Land Lab Competition in St. Louis is a prime example of what tasty ideas might spring forth from a pile of refuse and an empty lot. The challenge – to put vacant land to good, sustainable use – inspired local architects and chefs to conceive a winning idea, the Bistro Box, a café to be built from used shipping containers and run by a rotation of guest chefs.

Bistro Box is one of four winning ideas in the Sustainable Land Lab competition, a partnership program between the city of St. Louis and Washington University, which drew 48 submissions. Winners receive $5,000 in seed money and a two-year land lease. The Bistro Box will share its lot with fellow contestant Our Farm, a sustainable agriculture network.

John Burse, architect and urban designer with Mackey Mitchell Associates, originally teamed with landscape architect Jim Fetterman and Elaia and Olio chef/owner Ben Poremba to conceive and submit the idea to the competition. Although Poremba is no longer involved, chef Clint Whittemore is now consulting.

The vacant lot selected for the Bistro Box sits at 1303 Montgomery St., a block south of Old North Grocery Co-op and a block north of the community art center, Haven of Grace.

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[Arch City]

Here is a planned mixed-use Shipping Container infill project for The Grove (Tower Grove) neighborhood in South St. Louis along the Manchester Strip.

Read more about it here.

[Arch City]

St. Louis has a number of rooftop food and botanical gardens, but Food Roof will be among the first two rooftop food gardens downtown. Food Roof is to be located in the loft district and will include areas for gardening, hydroponics and dining. FarmWorks is under construction on the North Riverfront.

The Food Roof was a collaborative effort with RallySTL, which is a first-of-its-kind crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding platform that generates ideas and uses funding from the region's residents to help market greater Saint Louis.

The Food Roof effort has received full-funding because of a major donation by St. Louis-based Bunge North America - a global agribusiness and food company. (Read More)

To check out how many green roofs are listed for your region visit here.



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[Arch City]

Another rehab underway in St. Louis's Downtown West.

Long-ago perfume factory becoming apartments
10 hours ago • By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch



What opened in 1916 as a perfume factory is under renovation as loft apartments in a growing residential area just west of downtown St. Louis.
Kyle Miller, whose Paramount Property Development, of Waterloo, owns the building, plans to have the apartments ready by Thanksgiving. Work on the $4.5 million project began this spring.

Until about a year ago, part of the building at 2200 Locust Street housed a company that makes animal-care products. Miller, who bought the building in 2011, had planned to rehab the five-story structure around the products company with a mixture of retail and office uses.

But the products company relocated, prompting Miller to revise his rehab plan, which had suddenly encountered financing difficulty.

“When they moved out, it forced our hand to go in a different direction,” he said.

That direction was apartments, construction of which is barely keeping up with the demand downtown. Miller’s building in the Downtown West neighborhood is joining several other old warehouses and factories converted in recent years to apartments or condos. They include the Majestic Stove, Leather Trades, Locust Street and Edge lofts.

Miller is renaming his building the Lacassian Lofts in recognition of Lacassian Laboratories, the perfume maker that occupied the building when it opened. Its new configuration is for 27 one- and two-bedroom apartments. Projected monthly rents range from $800 for the smallest units to $1,200 for two-bed, two-bath apartments.

[Busy Bee]

Are they going to save those awesome windows? The rendering shows plain ol double hungs. That would be a real shame.

[Arch City]

Freedom Place
A new. reuse. mixed-used development for veterans in St. Louis' northwest Midtown/Center Corridor - near Grand Center.

-Springfield, Mo.-based, The Vecino Group LLC's rehab to create 68 units in Freedom Place at 4011 Delmar.

-About 7 years ago this property was supposed to be developed into market-rate apartments. Financing problems and the recession slowed its redevelopment.

-Planned completion, Spring 2014.

Media
Vimeo: 4011 Delmar
Google Streetview: 4011 Delmar
Building For Sale: Preservation Research.com

[Arch City]

Recently, this 6,000 sq. ft. 120-year old jewel on downtown's Washington Avenue was renovated into a co-working space called Lab 1500 operated by Ignition Tank - a support company for local start-ups.

Downtown St. Louis is fast-becoming a major tech node for many of the region's IT, data and other tech start-up companies.

For example, St. Louis-based Yurbuds recently graduated from a local incubator and signed a lease for Cupples Station #9 - a refurbished warehouse in a historic warehouse district downtown.




























All photos are from Facebook.

[goat314]

East-West Gateway (EWG), the regional association of local governments in the St. Louis area, is leading a regional planning effort that will examine the potential for economic development around the 37 existing MetroLink light rail stations. EWG is working collaboratively with local municipalities, Metro, other partner agencies and the private sector within the study area, to develop a master plan that will be used as the framework to encourage economic development also known as Transit Oriented Development, or “TOD” for short, around the existing light rail stations. TOD represents the creation of compact, walkable communities centered around a high-quality rail system, creating a sense of place. Well-executed TOD will allow our region to improve mobility, create sustainable and livable communities and improve transportation options for the future. The overall effort aims to create a vision and roadmap for how to encourage TOD in the St Louis region.

The East-West Gateway Council of Governments (EWG) and its partners have selected five stations to complete more detailed station area plans. Those five stations area are: Emerson Park/Jackie Joyner Kersee; Fairview Heights; North Hanley; Rock Road and Union Station/Civic Center.

This regional Transit Oriented Development study for St. Louis is part of a Regional Communities Planning Grant awarded to the St. Louis region by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). East West Gateway is working with local and regional partners as part of this grant process to complete a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (RPSD). The RPSD’s goals are to build the capacity of the region to implement sustainable practices by sharing knowledge, best practices, and resources, and to connect various local and regional planning efforts in the St. Louis region. Visit the RPSD website for more information.


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Fairview Heights Metrolink Station


Civic Center/Union Station Metrolink Station


Rock Road Metrolink Station


Jackie Joyner Kersee/East St. Louis Metrolink Station


N. Hanley Metrolink Station

[Arch City]

Here's yet another health care medical complex planned along St. Louis' 50-mile 'Healthcare Highway' (I-64/U.S.40), which cuts through St. Louis City by stretching from suburban O'Fallon, Missouri to suburban O'Fallon, Illinois.

Mercy brings 'future care' to expanding Chesterfield complex
By: Jim Erickson
Newsmagazine Network
Posted 04/01/13 11:16 am

Mercy Hospital’s upcoming operations at its Chesterfield campus will include cutting-edge technology designed to monitor the care not only of local patients but also those in other facilities many miles away.

A preview of those capabilities – and other plans now being developed for the health care provider’s 40-acre site at Clarkson and I-64 – was presented at a recent meeting of Progress 64 West.

Terry Bader, Mercy’s vice president of planning, design and construction, told the group what the new virtual care facility will be able to do brings back images of Dick Tracy using his wrist watch as a telephone in the popular cartoon strip of decades ago. While the detective’s use of unheard of technology seemed fanciful at the time, the ability of skilled nurses and doctors to monitor the condition of stroke victims at multiple locations up to hundreds of miles away not only is mind-boggling, it’s also a proven lifesaver, he said.

Mercy officials estimate that similar monitoring already being done with heart patients has enabled an estimated 6,000 people, who probably would have died, to complete their treatment successfully and return home, Bader noted.

Also envisioned not that far in the future is when a parent whose child has an earache will be able to send a doctor an image with a microscope-like device attached to a smartphone, enabling the physician to make a long-distance diagnosis and prescribe any necessary treatment, Bader added.

The road system in and around the new Mercy campus is the first priority for the Chesterfield location and work on that project now is under way with city officials and the Missouri Department of Transportation, Bader observed. Also in the planning stages is the new orthopedic hospital that will be part of the complex.

The virtual care facility and a new corporate headquarters building will round out the operations now planned for the site.

While retail shopping locations may appear to have little in common with medical activities, the strategy applied by both to selecting new sites is much the same, Bader said, explaining why the Chesterfield site was selected. Similarly, health care operations also must respond to what’s going on in the marketplace if they are to be successful, he added. Read More

-40 Acres
-200,000 SF Ministry Building
-160,000 SF Virtual Care Center Building
-200,000 SF 48 bed Orthopedic Hospital
-170,000 SF office building - Phase 2
-140,000 SF office building - Phase 3
-Parking to accommodate 2600 cars






^FYI,

I-64/U.S. 40 is being dubbed the 'healthcare highway' because this corridor already includes a half dozen hospitals, the headquarters for a range of major health-care systems, health care companies, career schools, nursing-care facilities and specialty-care providers.

Here's just a few:

-Wellpoint, Downtown St. Louis
-St. Louis University/SLUCare Medical Center, Midtown St. Louis
-Washington University in St. Louis Medical Center - undergoing $1-billion expansion, St. Louis
-Shriner's St. Louis
-CORTEX (biotechnology research district), St. Louis
-St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis
-St. Mary's Health Center, Clayton
-St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Creve Coeur
-Missouri Baptist Medical Center, Town & Country, Missouri
-Mercy Health Medical Center, planned
-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chesterfield
-Logan College of Chiropractic, Chesterfield
-Coventry Health Care of Missouri
-TLC Vision Corporation Headquarters
-BJC Progress West, O'Fallon, Missouri