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SLU Law School to move to Downtown St. Louis

By on January 30, 2012 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

While St. Louis University continues to expand further north and south across the Midtown area of St. Louis, it seems that are also setting their sights on invading Downtown as well. Come August 2012, SLU Law School will be moving it’s 1,100 students, as well as associated faculty and staff, to 100 Tucker Boulevard. Donated [...]

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Northside developer Paul McKee given the green-light on the Bottle District

By on November 30, 2011 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

Can Paul McKee and the St. Louis Board of Alderman put the 17-acre Bottle District project in Downtown St. Louis be put back together again? Despite the fact (or maybe because of it) that his massive Northside project has yet to gain enough traction to get off the ground, developer McKee seems to think so. And more importantly, [...]

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Escape from New York (St. Louis)

By on September 22, 2011 in St. Louis Business

In 1981′s Escape from New York, felon Snake Plisskeen (played by Kurt Russell) traverses some pretty rough looking places in the post-apocalyptic New York setting. In this grim future  (1997 in the film), New York had become a maximum security prison and pretty much left to rot. When an airplane carrying the President of the United [...]

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Mercantile Exchange about to help St. Louis Centre be reborn

By on September 17, 2011 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

Other than possibly St. Louis Marketplace, there is really no other development project in St. Louis that reeks of failure more than St. Louis Centre. Doomed from the start, this urban mall faltered almost immediately after it opened. Who knew that nobody wanted a suburban mall shopping experience in the shadow of the Arch? Failure though it was, developer Spinnaker  is about [...]

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$22 million Chouteau Crossing development progresses

By on August 21, 2011 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

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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Connecting ONSL to the Riverfront

By on July 10, 2011 in St. Louis Parks & Recreation, St. Louis Transportation

With construction of the new Mississippi River River Bridge along Interstate 70 progressing every day (2014 completion), increased attention is finally being paid to the northern side of Downtown St. Louis, as well as near-north neighborhoods such as Old North St. Louis (ONSL) and Hyde Park. Unfortunately, over the years, these areas have not only been cut off from easy access [...]

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Last vacant Cupples Station building purchased by Koman Group

By on June 1, 2011 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

Although most of the original Cupples Station warehouses in Downtown St. Louis have either been rehabbed or demolished by now, there are still two rather prominent buildings that remain untouched on the 900 block of Spruce Street. If you have ever been and Busch Stadium and noticed the hulking board-ups to the west of the ballpark, you know which [...]

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Pyramid’s John Steffen facing fraud charges… again

By on May 9, 2011 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

John Steffen, former head of now-defunct Pyramid Construction, is again facing federal fraud charges for allegedly mishandling of Missouri Historic Tax Credits. Specifically, the charges say the funds in the amount of $827,000, were defrauded from the Business Bank.  The one-time Downtown St. Louis developer escaped unscathed from similar charges in late 2010, but prosecutors are bringing the issue back [...]

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Ballpark Village to be Stifel headquarters?

By on January 16, 2011 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

No other active real estate development project in the St. Louis area has received as much attention as Ballpark Village. The planned $800 million project is the product of the St. Louis Cardinals and Baltimore-based Cordish Company, but has faced hurdle after hurdle. “On again, off again” since the completion of Busch Stadium III, the developers say [...]

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Fraud charges dropped against Pyramid’s Steffen

Fraud charges dropped against Pyramid’s Steffen

By on November 10, 2010 in St. Louis Real Estate Development

Charges against the former owner of Pyramid Construction Co., John Steffen, were dropped today by a federal judge. Best known for rehabbing historic structures and lofts in South St. Louis and Downtown, the firm went belly up in 2008, leaving a wake of unfinished projects on their demise. via St. Louis Business Journal

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