This project update is for Midtown-Grand Center. All photos were taken by me over the past several days.
3000 Locust Lofts
This is in the Midtown Alley District of St. Louis. This development was done by Collegiate Development Group. CDG moved their offices from Clayton to this building and now calls Midtown home. Upstairs, there are just over 20 luxury apartment lofts. This is the first market rate housing development along Locust in Midtown Alley for a very long time. This will soon be joined by the Malone (Beaumont Building) at the corner of Beaumont and Locust. For now, future apartment projects in the area will probably be determined by the success of 3000 Locust.
Olive West Homes
The Tatiana Bilbao master planned Olive West housing development is starting to come together. 3 model homes have been erected and a 4th is having it's basement framed. An in ground pool has also ben built behind the partially renovated Wolfner Building, which will become a community center. By next summer, a majority of this site should be seeing homes sprouting up along with a Michael Maltzan designed apartment building at Olive and Vandeventer. This project is significant as it brings many renowned architects together along with building single family homes in Grand Center.
The developers are Steve Trampe and Emily Pulitzer.
The City Foundry
The City Foundry project still has some work to do but is more or less completed. Office tenants are moved in but the Retail and Food Hall portions of the project remained closed due to Coronavirus. The Alamo Movie Theater is still under construction as well. One thing that I do not like about the project is the lack of color along "Foundry Way". It's all gray. I hope that the murals that will be painted add some color but I also hope that the Lawrence Group (developer and architect) adds planters (with trees, bushes, and flowers), umbrellas, and colorful chairs to Foundry Way to brighten it up a bit. There's still time before the development is officially opened to the public, so I'll wait till it's 100% completed rather 90%.
Element Hotel on Forest Park
The project missed it's target opening of August 2020, but that's ok. The project will now open later on in the Fall. HotWorx Fitness will open on the first floor when the hotel opens. It will serve Midtown and the City Foundry along with whoever else would like to stay here.
3765 Lindell (The Verve)
3765 Lindell now has a name: The Verve. I discovered this during my walk because a leasing office is being put into the Gerhart block on Vandeventer. A website for the development was also available and it included a new rendering of the 7-story structure showing the name on the building. Currently, the site has a shallow hole dug, which will become the lower level of the parking garage. The apartments will be geared towards students of SLU with unit sizes ranging from studios to 4-bedrooms. The building only has a little over 70 apartment units in it, so it will be a tight squeeze.
I attached photos of the leasing center, new rendering, and construction photos here.
