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Today, the Gateway Arch Park Foundation announced that they selected the Cordish Companies to redevelop the site of the vacant Millennium Hotel at 200 South 4th Street. The Millennium has been vacant since January 2014 and has been an eyesore in recent years. Cordish's plan calls for a 1.3 million square foot mixed-use development with a 45-story apartment tower, a 14-story office tower, retail restaurants, a food hall, amphitheater, and public space. Clark Avenue will be connected to Memorial Drive from 4th Street via a pedestrian plaza.

The tower is the tallest building proposed in the City of St. Louis in decades. The entire development has an unobstructed view of the Arch, Park, and River.

The current estimated cost is $670 Million.

The proposal will go before the City's LCRA Board next week, kicking off the approval process. Further reviews in front of the City's Preservation Board and the Board of Adjustment (for variances) are expected. The Board of Adjustment will almost certainly need to approve of a variance in height as a height limit of 300ft+/- is established in the area bound by Chouteau, Broadway, and Carr.

Cordish is familiar with St. Louis and this particular area of Downtown. They've been linked up with the Cardinals for over 20 years at this point with the Ballpark Village development just one block west. That project is still only half finished, but rumors continue to abound that a 3rd phase (featuring a new office building and a 2 Cardinal Way apartment tower) is in the later stages of planning and could be announced this year. The renderings of 200 South 4th show a very basic outline box for a potential 2 Cardinal Way.

City leaders are expected to rush this one through the approval process because of how badly the City wants the Millennium Hotel to go away.
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The design of the taller tower just screams Solomon Cordwell Buenz. I wonder if they are the design architects.

My favorite Cardinals player is Number 22 Guy Cardinals.

NICE!

45 stories is BIG time tall for st. Louis!

Awesome new for St. Louis!

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan (Post 10375806)

NICE!

45 stories is BIG time tall for st. Louis!

It's certainly one of the more ambitious proposals to publicly come forward. Downtown St. Louis still has a vacant building problem with the Railway Exchange, AT&T Building (redevelopment plan actively in the works), the old Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chemical Building, the old Municipal Courts, old Police HQ, and the Orpheum Theater. Removing the Millennium Hotel and replacing it with something like this is the best possible outcome on that site. It's something that can't be done with the other properties. My thought is that if Cordish successfully builds this and a 2 Cardinal Way and they fill up, other 'luxury" residential towers will start to be proposed and built in Downtown St. Louis. The office component is the one that raises the eyebrows among people I know in the St. Louis real estate world.

An interesting twist in this project, and something that might lead to a 3rd Phase of Ballpark Village being delayed.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis Cardinals mull role in Millennium Redevelopment
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metr...38a969c-efb8-11ef-94e3-b3efeadf5200.html

In short, Bill Dewitt III says the Millennium site plans are further along than the next phase of Ballpark Village. Depending on how fast Cordish moves and the economics of it, the Cardinals might invest into the project.

We now have some project specifics (thanks to the LCRA agenda).
- 41-story residential tower with 600 apartments.
- 10-story, Class A office building with 250,000sf of space.
- 60,000sf Arch archive.
- 52,000sf of retail space (overall).
- 35,000sf food hall and winter garden.
- Amphitheater.
- 1000 space parking garage underneath the residential tower (2 floors below-grade, and 3 floors above-grade).

Oh god, please make the parking garage look better. Fingers crossed. I remember back when I was working my first job at the old Busch stadium. All I could think was how terrible that part of downtown looked.This could be a huge improvement. Also, I find that amphitheater pretty cool. :tup:

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan (Post 10375806)

NICE!

45 stories is BIG time tall for st. Louis!

Yes! And- using 3.1 meters per floor as a general rule- a 45-story residential/hotel tower is the approximate equivalent of 457 feet tall. That would make it the fifth tallest building in the city!

Can we get a title update with 41 & 10 stories vs the originally posted 45 & 14?

We East Coasters have an old fondness to St Louis.. Escape from New York was primarily filmed there

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Look similar to Kohn Pedersen Fox's Waterline in Austin :cheers:

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Originally Posted by futuresooner (Post 10390603)

Can we get a title update with 41 & 10 stories vs the originally posted 45 & 14?

Residential tower is still 45. 41 of residential over a 4-story garage. Office should be changed down to 10.

The Gateway Arch Park Foundation announced that they completed the acquisition of the Millennium Hotel from an ownership group who are based in Singapore. Cordish reaffirmed their commitment to delivering this project.

The Foundation also released rendering of what the buildings will look like from inside Busch Stadium and across the River. More of the Arch is revealed when viewed from the Ballpark (the south leg is partially blocked by the Millennium Hotel).
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This defining project will look so good from the two most known angles of the skyline. I love the fact they've pushed the main tower as far south as possible in order to help with framing the Arch.

Demolition has commenced on the former Millennium Hotel. The shorter portions are being taken down first followed by the tower.

St Louis really needs this. Such a cool city with so much potential. Fingers crossed.