ST. LOUIS & CLAYTON | Project Rundown - Page 28

Arch City · #**541** Posted **May 16, 2013, 2:05 PM**

RGA to break ground for new headquarters

May 14, 2013 2:48 pm • By Tim Bryant

Groundbreaking is scheduled for Monday in Chesterfield for Reinsurance Group of America's new headquarters on Swingley Ridge Road.

RGA officials say the expanded HQ will have two five-story buildings joined by a two-story atrium. Clayco is the contractor that will build the structure on the 17-acre site. Completion is scheduled for next year.

The company says it will eventually add more than 300 new jobs in the St. Louis area. RGA currently employs 730 people who work in buildings in Chesterfield and St. Charles.

In addition to offices, the new RGA headquarters will have a café seating 500 people, a 2,500-square-foot fitness facility and below-ground parking. The complex will be about two miles west of RGA's current headquarters in leased space.

In November, Chesterfield and St. Louis County officials said that to help pay for the $150 million project, RGA was seeking breaks on county real estate and personal property taxes.

Arch City · #**542** Posted **May 16, 2013, 11:14 PM**

It was officially announced today that famed Boston start-up incubator, Cambridge Innovation Center will expand outside of Boston for the first time. Setting up a location in St. Louis - in its CORTEX Biotechnology District -CIC-St. Louis is to be located in the @4240 Building and will take up most of the 2nd floor.

Below are photos of the ground-breaking announcement.

CIC-St. Louis

Today, the stakeholders, politicians and press toured Cambridge Innovation Center-St. Louis' 2nd floor digs under construction in the @4240 building in CORTEX. The @4240 building, also known as the Heritage Building, is under-going a $74-million renovation.

Photos from Twitter.

St. Louis Mayor, Francis Slay.

Touring work being done on the second floor.

Arch City · #**543** Posted **May 24, 2013, 10:54 PM**

City Walk project grows in size
May 22, 2013 5:19 pm • By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

City Walk on Euclid, the Central West End apartment project that includes a Whole Foods Market, is growing in size.

Bruce Mills, whose Mills Properties is behind City Walk, said today the building will have seven floors, instead of the six proposed earlier.

Whole Foods will occupy 28,500 square feet on the first floor plus 10,000 square feet of space below street level, Mills says. That level will have direct access to the underground portion of City Walk's parking garage, which Mills says also will be bigger than first planned.

An elevator will connect the store's two floors, he adds.

Before Whole Foods showed up, City Walk was to have only 9,000 square feet of retail space and about 150 apartments on six floors.

The project, at Euclid and West Pine, has grown in grocery space and gained underground parking. Mills says that those changes, plus enlarging City Walk to about 177 apartments means adding a floor to the building. The changes pushed up the project's cost $10 million, to $70 million.

Mills says that enlarging the project means redoing construction documents and rebidding the work. As a result, groundbreaking could be pushed back from June to September, he says. Construction would take 21 months.

177-unit building with a Whole Foods Market

Site where the project will rise. (Photo, Michael R. Allen)

ChiPsy · #**544** Posted **May 25, 2013, 7:00 PM**

Very good news for the Central West End!

Arch City · #**545** Posted **May 26, 2013, 9:24 PM**

The Washington University in St. Louis Medical Center is about to embark on a $1.2-billion expansion. Construction is already underway on the new $ 47-million Shriners Hospital St. Louis.

In addition to Shriners-St. Louis, below is a Phase I concept rendering for expansions of St. Louis Children's Hospital and Siteman Cancer Center, which is a top ten cancer center.

Left, is the first phase concept expansion.

A preliminary concept of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital north campus and St. Louis Children’s Hospital expansions is developing. Designers and planners, along with leadership of BJC HealthCare, Barnes-Jewish, Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, are developing the concept design of the Campus Renewal Project as permission is sought to take down older buildings on the north campus.

The Campus Renewal Project will transform the campus over the next 10 years through renovations and new construction, creating an environment and experience for patients that match the excellence in medical care they expect.

The first phase is concentrated on the north end of the campus. It includes an expansion of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, as well as women and infants services, Siteman Cancer Center, surgical programs, diagnostics, new space for university faculty practice offices and clinics as well as community physician practices, parking and additional green space. As part of this expansion, the former Jewish College of Nursing building, as well as the Kingshighway, Yalem and Steinberg buildings, are slated to come down sometime this fall.

During the current concept design, user groups (employees, clinicians, leadership) are helping designers understand how services and floors function today and how they should work in the future.

That work has enabled architects to create very preliminary models of how the facilities will relate to one other. This concept is known as ‘stacking’ and is used to ensure that necessary adjacencies and alignments are achieved in the building design. The design and programming work that continues this year will determine the final architecture of new buildings.

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Arch City · #**546** Posted **May 26, 2013, 9:46 PM**

Continuing.......

^Ahead of expansions at Washington University's medical campus and the CORTEX bioscience and technology research district, a new I-64 interchange is being built to better access the complexes.

photo credit, pasa47

photo credit, MoDot

photo credit, pasa47

Arch City · #**547** Posted **May 28, 2013, 2:55 AM**

Progress construction is under way on the $42 million Cortona at Forest Park, a 280-unit apartment complex in St. Louis. The project will occupy the southwest corner of Balke Brown Transwestern's 26-acre Highlands mixed-use development.

The gated community will feature a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse, a saltwater swimming pool and an outdoor kitchen with lounging areas. Residents will also have access to a car-detailing service and a leash-free pet park. Monthly rents are projected to range from $1,000 to $1,750 when the property opens in 2014. Balke Brown hopes the development will attract young professionals.

The development is near Forest Park, Washington University's main campus and its medical center, the CWE and CORTEX - St. Louis' technology and biosciences district.

Arch City · #**548** Posted **May 28, 2013, 2:58 AM**

Site activity for the new $47-million Shriners Hospital of St. Louis, which will be located in the Washington University Medical Center.

photo credit, pasa47

Arch City · #**549** Posted **May 28, 2013, 3:07 AM**

Work continues on the new $53-million BJC Administrative Building in CORTEX.

Boyle Avenue will connect to the new I-64 interchange.

photo credit, pasa47

Arch City · #**550** Posted **May 28, 2013, 3:52 AM**

Progress on Washington University's $80-million Loop Living project. A St. Louis-based grocer, Global Foods Market, could become a tenant.

photo credit, unknown

Arch City · #**551** Posted **May 30, 2013, 4:06 AM**

Earlier this month, the light box on St. Louis University's new $54-million downtown law school was tested.

Work crews are hustling to put the finishing touches on the new home for the St. Louis University law school at 100 N. Tucker (12th St.) in downtown St. Louis. KMOX News got an exclusive look at the work being done inside the 12-story building to get it ready for 800+ students, faculty and staff who will start moving in on June 24th. The school's expected to be completely occupied by mid-August.

photo credit, Michael Calhoun

Views from the 12-story law school.

sbarn · #**552** Posted **May 30, 2013, 4:50 PM**

Just curious, will St. Louis ever lift its height limit downtown?

Arch City · #**553** Posted **Jun 2, 2013, 6:03 PM**

Cranes over The Loop for Washington University's Loop Living project - a mixed-use development.

photos credit, pasa47/flickr

Arch City · #**554** Posted **Jun 2, 2013, 6:17 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by sbarn

Just curious, will St. Louis ever lift its height limit downtown?

I don't know if there is a height limit. I believe that is a myth. Last decade, there were a few proposals for structures that would have been taller than the Gateway Arch. Unfortunately, those proposals never took off for a variety of reasons.

Arch City · #**555** Posted **Jun 3, 2013, 1:03 AM**

Latest scenes from the $186-million Phase II development of an emerging bioscience and technology corridor called CORTEX (Center of Research, Technology, and Entrepreneurial Exchange).

Metrolink tracks near the new BJC Administrative Building. A Metrolink stop is proposed for the district, which is near Washington University Medical Center.

Foreground, right, BJC Admin and @4240 - future home to CIC-St. Louis. Background, left, the international headquarters of Solae Company (a Dupont subsidiary) and CORTEX Building One. Other district buildings are unseen in the photos.

@4240 - future home to Cambridge Innovation Center - and BJC Admin. (See Video)

Right, Solae Company, a private $1-billion ag firm and subsidiary of Dupont. Lots of street work, signage, a public plaza and other features are planned.

All photos courtesy of pasa47/flickr.com

Arch City · #**556** Posted **Jun 3, 2013, 1:34 AM**

Progress on the Gotham Apartments and Gotham Annex, which will include a total of 90-market rate units when complete.

Gotham Apartments In The Loop (website)

Video: Loop Trolley Bringing Hope For Development On East End Of Delmar

photos, pasa47/flickr.com

Arch City · #**557** Posted **Jun 3, 2013, 7:44 PM**

Here's progress on the Aventura at Forest Park - a 150-unit apartment community being marketed to medical professionals and students. Situated near Wash. U. Medical Center and CORTEX, there are plans for a future expansion.

Multi-family projects like these below are going to help inch up and stabilize the city's population.

Across from the complex a new city park is under construction.

Also, this small complex of townhomes is going up near the Aventura at Forest Park apartments.

Read More: Tower Grove Townhomes

All photo credits, pasa47/flickr.com

Arch City · #**558** Posted **Jun 3, 2013, 8:11 PM**

A new $15-million, eight-story 145-room Hyatt Place hotel is under construction next to an existing 274-room Drury Plaza hotel in the Chesterfield Valley. The new hotels will share parking lots. Both hotels are located across from Chesterfield Mall.

Arch City · #**559** Posted **Jun 3, 2013, 9:43 PM**

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) - a $10-billion Fortune 500 (#245) global reinsurer - recently broke ground on its new $150-million global headquarters off Interstate 64 in Chesterfield. RGA’s new campus will be a stone’s throw from Monsanto’s expanding campus. Its neighbors include the headquarters of Scottrade and Edward Jones. As of December 31, 2012, the company had approximately $2.9 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of $40.4 billion.

When completed in 2014, RGA’s new 405,000-square-foot complex will contain two five-story office towers, each equal in size and linked by a two-story atrium lobby.

RGA selected the site with growth in mind. The company plans to hire 300 new workers. The new complex will include room for the workforce expansion the company anticipates over the next several years. In the long-term, the site has space for another office building to support future growth.

“Breaking ground on our new global headquarters is a great way to celebrate RGA’s 40th anniversary.

The headquarters will include state-of-the-art security features, a café seating 500 people and a 2,500-square-foot fitness facility.

Arch City · #**560** Posted **Jun 4, 2013, 2:35 PM**

Streets of St. Charles

Cullinan Properties' is building a $300 million mixed-use development in suburban St. Charles - just across the St. Louis County line.

The mixed-use development, which will offer retail, residential and commercial space as well as two hotels, is under construction as part of the 26-acre, 1 million-square-foot development at the southeast corner of South Fifth Street and Interstate 70.

Tenants of the project include the Art Institute of St. Louis, Denver-based Tucanos Brazilian Grill, which is the seventh restaurant in the chain and first in the Midwest, the third location of Chicago-based Prasino, Five Guys, Massage LuXe, corporate offices etc.

• 100,000 sq. ft. Phase I now open including retail,
restaurants, ofﬁce, and The Art Institute of St. Louis
• Over 250,000 sq. ft. of retail and restaurant space
• Over 250,000 sq. ft. of Class A ofﬁce space
• Two hotel sites available for development
• 300+ luxury residential units under construction with 2013 occupancy

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