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A recent policy change at the Land Reutilization Authority (LRA), the city’s land bank, is concerning for a city seeking to reverse population loss and struggling to keep up with infrastructure liabilities rendered more difficult by the ever-present rip tide spreading out the region. When a property owner doesn’t pay property taxes and no one […]

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One would think that the US would have a museum dedicated to the history, interpretation, and evolution of maps–a National Map Museum if you will–but we do not.  If such a place existed, you might expect to find it on the National Mall in Washington D.C. among all the other great institutions there that hold […]

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Spitzberg-Lassen Holdings of St. Louis and Tailwind Group of Mankato, MN have teamed up to propose a new 12-story, 158-foot tall mixed-use building with student oriented housing at 3800 Laclede Ave in the Midtown neighborhood. Saint Louis University currently owns the land, which is under contract. St. Louis-based Design Alliance is the architect. Spitzberg-Lassen has […]

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Green Street‘s plans have come to light to rehab the old Famous-Barr warehouse next to The Armory at 3728 Market in the Midtown neighborhood. We got an indication that something was cooking when they sought a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places before the Preservation Board last September. The listing paves the way […]

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Between Delmar Divine, the Delmar Maker District, Delmar Main Street, and the Kingsway Elevation District, there is concerted effort to bridge the Delmar Divide underway. There are some new tidbits on planned developments by Kingsway Development in the Kingsway Opportunity Zone, which encompasses Delmar from Kingshighway to Taylor as well as the Fountain Park and […]

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The Independence Center in partnership with ND Consulting Group is planning a new construction apartment building for seniors at 4221 Forest Park Avenue next door to the Clubhouse Shop of Independence Center in the Central West End neighborhood. They submitted a $0 zoning-only building permit application March 6th, 2023. The four story building on 0.65 […]

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AHM Group plans a new construction of an 18-unit apartment development on seven vacant lots on the 3000 block of Minnesota north of Arsenal in the Tower Grove East neighborhood. The architect is studioDVLP. The proposal consists of two two-story buildings fronting Minnesota meant to fit contextually with their surroundings each with six rowhouses. Two […]

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Looking Back to Look Forward The Expo at Forest Park might give a glimpse into the future of the neighborhoods just north of Forest Park. On St. Louis’ west side, DeBaliviere Avenue tells the history of St. Louis from the early 20th century through the present day. What began as a street that operated as […]

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One-hundred years ago this year St. Louis voters passed an $87M ($1.5B today) bond referendum to make major changes to Downtown St. Louis.  Among the projects funded–which included demolition for the Gateway Mall and the suite of municipal buildings built along it–was widening Tucker, Market, and Olive in Downtown West, a project that was complete […]

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AHM Group is proposing what would be their third new construction development along Morgan Ford in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. The four-story apartment building would be at the corner of Morgan Ford and Juniata. The architect is JEMA who were the architects for AHM’s other two developments nearby, MoFo and Yio. AHM already has […]

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This past week, a Missouri House committee advanced HB580, a bill that would place statewide limits on residential building energy codes and potentially make it illegal for St. Louis area municipalities to enforce portions of locally adopted ordinances. If made into law, the bill would weaken the 2018 suite of International Code Council (ICC) building […]

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We should have been celebrating this weekend as our new MLS expansion team, CITY SC, opened their season with a stunning win over Austin FC. A game winning goal in the 86th minute was a historic moment and was met with cheers and jubilation around our entire region. But on Sunday, our City was waking […]

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Traffic violence is top of mind again in the St. Louis region due to horrific crashes killing and crippling people inside and outside of cars. 17-year-old Janae Edmondson visiting from Tennessee for a volleyball tournament was maimed downtown in a crash caused by a driver without a driver’s license and in violation of his bond […]

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Located just 1,000 feet from MetroLink’s Grand Station and across the highway from City Foundry (another huge success), the pedestrian experience is a complete afterthought for the Armory. The Armory opened at the end of 2022 to much skepticism about how successful it would be. Advertised as a massive indoor entertainment venue, the new concept […]

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Recently, NextSTL ran Revisiting the Chouteau Lake and Greenway Plan and Imagining a Traffic Free Corridor.  In that article, I discussed the plan’s merits, questions involving its demise, and its continued prospects for transforming the Mill Creek rail valley.   The plan’s creator, developer Richard Baron, Co-founder and Chairman of McCormack Baron Salazar, reached out and […]

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Despite all the “pain at the pump” in 2022, fuel consumption in Missouri was up slightly over 2021. I’ve been covering the situation all year – NextSTL – Missouri fuel prices peak in June, demand falls a little, more wealth leaves the state NextSTL – Fuel demand in Missouri remains robust despite “high” prices NextSTL – Near […]

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My, my how times have changed. In 2015 fresh off the heels of the proposed sales tax increase for transportation (mostly for highways) going down in flames in August of 2014, MoDOT came up with the Missouri 325 plan. It was an austerity plan based on only $325M in state funding for road construction. Many […]

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The next time you buy something in the City of St. Louis, take note of the sales tax at the bottom of the receipt. A portion of that tax has been the city’s primary means of funding infrastructure improvements since 1993. Thirty years later, the process for allocating that tax funding, called “Ward Capital,” is […]

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A 27-year-old man was killed by a driver while crossing Lucas-Hunt Road after exiting a #64 Metrobus around 11 pm last Wednesday night. The driver stayed at the scene and is spinning err cooperating with police investigators. The reportage in the Post Dispatch didn’t have much more detail, so we don’t know if the driver […]

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2616 Cherokee Street, located on the first block of Cherokee west of Jefferson in the Gravois Park neighborhood, is being rehabbed by South Side Spaces. The property, most recently occupied by Rent-to-Own furniture store Rent One, was purchased in March 2022 and will be be converted into nine units. The first floor will include three […]

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