ST. LOUIS & CLAYTON | Project Rundown

^ that's a great pic. 100 is going to be beautiful.

quick correction: Forest Park is about 500 acres larger than Central Park. in terms of "largest", though, it depends on what qualifies as an "urban park".

Alamo Drafthouse, Punch Bowl Social, and Fassler Hall to anchor City Foundry

https://nextstl.com/2018/01/alamo-dr...-city-foundry/

Lawrence Group confirmed today that Alamo Drafthouse, a movie theater with higher-end amenities will, as previously reported, anchor the City Foundry project along with Punch Bowl Social, an “eatertainment” concept combining arcade gaming, virtual reality, bowling and karaoke with dining and cocktails, and Fassler Hall, a “German-inspired beer hall.

None of these establishments currently have a St. Louis outpost, making this the first foray into the region for each of them. These tenants amount to 40% of the first phase of the project. In addition, the Lawrence group says that another 30% of the space is committed to retail and office tenants for a total of 70% preleased.

The three tenants announced today are leasing space outside the previously-covered “food hall” area, which is being reserved for local St. Louis culinary vendors.

CBRE represented Lawrence Group in lease negotiations with the new tenants and are leasing the balance of City Foundry STL’s retail space. City Foundry STL’s first phase is planned for 122,000 sq. ft. of restaurant and entertainment space, roughly 105,000 sq. ft. of shops and 111,000 sq. ft. of offices.

Lawrence Group is the architect, with construction management performed by S.M. Wilson, and financing is provided by CIBC Bank. Colleen O’Neill has been hired as Managing Director of the project responsible for overseeing marketing, operations, and management.

[Arch City]

Progress on 1400 Russell. 126-units in Historic Soulard.









Renderings

[Arch City]

Below are photos of Tribeca-St. Louis going up in the West End (DeBaliviere Place) part of the city. Units: 150



See larger photos by Jambo at urbanstl.com, below

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[soulard&como]

Long abandoned building at 3600 S. Grand to be resorted by Garcia Properties. Live/work space and 12 market rate apartments planned.

[Arch City]

4400 Manchester, 55-luxury units, retail and office spaces in The Grove is nearing completion and is now leasing.

[Arch City]

Land has been cleared for the massive NGA West Campus in lower North St. Louis. (See Video)

The $1.75-billion Next NGA West is the largest federal investment project in the history of St. Louis. It is a mega-project jointly managed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Air Force. The 97-acre site is located in the historic St. Louis Place neighborhood at the intersection of Jefferson and Cass avenues.

The project will feature an approximately 712,000 square foot office building, parking garages, visitor center, inspection facility and access control points.


• Video Link

Only a concept rendering is available at this time.

[Busy Bee]

How... inspiring?

[The North One]

Oh god, don't rip up all that grid.

[deja vu]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

How... inspiring?

Originally Posted by The North One

Oh god, don't rip up all that grid.

Yeah...my reaction too. I guess it's good to see this huge of an investment in the area, but it's a really suburban-looking design that is cutoff from its surroundings.... What has the surrounding neighborhood reaction been?

[Busy Bee]

It looks like a 1970s level mistake. They could build the complex on a quarter of the amount of land and plan for the existing grid to be refilled with new residential and multi-use over a period of years. This current program is actually shockingly bad. Even notice the property on the north side backs up to an alley, it's not even properly framed by a street that could be lined with new development.

[Busy Bee]

Compare to just one example of a complex of similar scale placed in a more urban format with much more dynamic architecture, the new Allianz Stuttgart campus: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...7&postcount=15

^ ... ^^^^^ yes, everyone's aware that it's an atrocious, suburban site plan but there was nothing to be done about it. the NGA requires 500 ft setbacks for security purposes. so while that Allianz Stuttgart campus looks great, it's not an option for this project. this is a multi-billion dollar investment which will have 5000+ employees, and if it hadn't gone here we would have lost the investment to Illinois AND lost several thousand existing city jobs.

for comparison, here is the NGA East campus in Virginia:



while it sucks to lose that chunk of street grid, there are already plans for new housing and commercial on the mostly-vacant land surrounding the site to accommodate future employees. The land on which the facility is being built was already decimated (immediately adjacent to the Pruitt-Igoe site/urban forest) with few inhabited homes, and those home owners forced to relocate were compensated for their properties.

at least one historically significant property was moved:


https://nextstl.com/2017/02/permit-i...2530-n-market/

but i'm most upset about losing this beauty, which wasn't even located on the property (it was across the street):


http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/im...446b15f5&gid=3

[Arch City]

It's sad that Bunge North America could be absorbed into a bigger AG conglomerate such as ADM or Swiss-based Glencore AG after recently moving into their new Chesterfield HQ's in December (2017).

Personally, I hope Swiss-based Glencore buys Bunge Ltd. That way Glencore is more likely to keep offices (at least some) and assets in St. Louis.

I'm not so sure about ADM - especially considering their HQs are in Chicago now.

Perhaps Bunge could be left as a St. Louis-based subsidiary of either company.

[Chris Stritzel]

AC Hotel Unveiled for Former Clayton Police HQ

...the AC Hotel will be situated on South Central in Clayton and will flow through to South Meramec on the opposite side. At 200 rooms, it will add a ton of space for visitors to come to Downtown Clayton. This means it will also add to the streetscape, there will be more people in Downtown Clayton to patronize the cafes and small shops that dot Clayton...

https://www.buildingstlnews.com/the-...yton-police-hq

[Arch City]

Designed by Chicago-based Studio Gang, the $110-million, 36-story One Hundred (Kingshighway) Tower construction site prep work is underway. Official ground-breaking to occur soon.

Webcam coming soon too.



Photo by chriss752 @ urbanstl.com


Photo by chriss752 @ urbanstl.com


Photo by quincunx at urbanstl.com

[Arch City]

A new office project in the works for suburban Creve Coeur, near St. Louis balloning Ag research corridor

Plans call for 750,000 square feet of new Class A office space to be spread over three buildings along I-270 just north of DeSmet High School where a small neighborhood sits today.

Clayco said the firm has all 38 homes under option agreements and that the project still needs to be rezoned to move forward.

[Chris Stritzel]

The Hibernia Apartment project at 6300 Clayton Avenue in Dogtown hasn't even begun yet and developers are already touting that it will be open in 10 months. I highly doubt it since an underground garage has to be built first before the actual structure starts to rise. I do like the minty green colors on the place and I really like how mush density this will add to Dogtown.

the Post-Dispatch and KTVI/KPLR reported that Indianapolis based Pearl Companies will have their 5 floor, 100 unit apartment building completed by the end of the year

https://www.buildingstlnews.com/the-...y-the-new-year

[hoffa270]

Updates
Projects Under Construction
Downtown Only


#1. Arch Grounds
Before


Renderings



Present


#2. Ballpark Village Phase 2
Baseball Theamed District
29 Story Luxury Apt Tower
10 Story A Class Office Building
8 Story Live By Loews Hotel

Before


Renderings

Office & Hotes



Luxury Apts



Present
Luxury Apts


Office & Hotel


Under Construction
Hotel Indigo
Before


Renderings


Present



#3. Union Station
1.3Million Gallon Aquarium, 200 Ft Ferris Wheel & 25 Room Clock Tower Hotel

Before



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Present


#4. The Last Hotel
Before


No Full Renderings
But Is Under Cunstruction

Present


#5. 917, 921 & 923 Locust Redevelopment
Before


Renderings (Not A Fan But Hey)


Present


#6. Blackhawk Boutique Hotel


No Full Renderings
But Is Under Cunstruction

Present



This Post Is Alread To Long But
These Are More Things Going on Downtown


Under Construction
500 Locust/Mercantile Library Block - mixed-use redevelopment.
701 First Street - mixed-use conversion of Peper Building.
1706 Washington - residential conversion of old CPI office building.
Soldiers Memorial & Museum restoration.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by hoffa270

#5. 917, 921 & 923 Locust Redevelopment
Before


Renderings (Not A Fan But Hey)

Good heavens this is just incompetent. Wow.