Tag Archives | Chouteau

Grand Boulevard Bridge progress

After years of planning, the Grand Boulevard Bridge, running from Chouteau Avenue to Interstate-64 in Midtown St. Louis, was finally torn down in early-Spring 2011. Once complete, the resulting new bridge, along with a remade Metrolink Station, will be a big improvement to the area. Fears of massive traffic jams due to eliminating access to Interstate-64 on [...]

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$22 million Chouteau Crossing development progresses

Construction of the $22 million Chouteau Crossing project at the NE corner of Chouteau and South Jefferson is finally showing some real progress.  The long-neglected warehouse, located on the southern border of Downtown, just north of Lafayette Square at 2301 Chouteau, went under construction April 1010 . Clayton-based Green Street Properties LLC is handling the project, [...]

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Site of former “Praxair Explosion” remains idle

When a chemical storage warehouse in the St. Louis neighborhood of Lafayette Square exploded in 2005, it garnered national media attention (see video of the fire here). The damage to the warehouse at 2210 Chouteau Avenue and the surrounding buildings was fairly substantial, though thankfully nobody was injured. Following the fire, the surrounding buildings were soon [...]

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Station G in FPSE

Station G in FPSE

Last October a pair of big projects were announced for the northern section of the Forest Park Southeast (The Grove) neighborhood. One was to be developed by Jerry King of Citirama fame (Gaslight Square) and the other by Saaman. I was as excited as the next guy about these projects, but following the collapse of [...]

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