What an improvement over the 1 story building this replaced. I prefer the brick to the one across Missouri Ave with the fake stone bottom layer. LaSalle and Missouri in Lafayette Square neighborhood
The before and after
#2 Lawn Place across from Forest Park (yes technically) for sale at $500K - rebuilt after fire. Some odd choices including just a parking pad outside of the fenced yard; no landscaping; kept the rusty old shed.
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I’d found this drawing a while back of the 4101 Manchester wedge. Real image below!
Market Street Brickline Greenway segment grand opening April 13
Market Street Brickline Greenway segment grand opening April 13
New larger Papa John’s signs on Tucker actually help make the garage retail spaces look more legit. Needed something to break up that bare concrete 🧐
I do wish he would have pursued historic tax credits (which he never did), as the design constraints and extra funds would have resulted in better projects long-term
$27.5M building permit issued yesterday per @stlrainbow.bsky.social
And the standalone oven with drywall to catch the grease...
Here are some examples of Hayden finishes 🫣
It's great that Hayden stabilized & filled the buildings, but their Menards-style finishes are ROUGH - hopefully new ownership can restore/improve the properties' desirability.
(2/2)
Brian Hayden's Laclede Gas bldg (720 Olive) and 515 Olive containing mostly apartments have both been foreclosed on, and 511 Olive is now in receivership. Hayden has now listed for sale 555 N. 4th and 1014 Locust. (1/2)
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Festus “will pay Olive Garden's affiliated company a partial refund of the general sales tax revenue stemming from the restaurant for 10 years” 🤣
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Full article
AT&T data center downtown has received more than $7M of upgrades since 2020. Reports in '88 stated "Special features include a floor-to-floor height of 16 feet, 6 inches, which is needed to accommodate large computers. As a result, the building is as tall as a 17-story building."
“Damned Good People” opening March 28 in the Grove - Coffee Shop and gathering place
Speaking of STL Treasurer: former FedEx store in same garage has been vacant 2yrs & former bank branch for ~4yrs. Why not invite popup tenants if they pay utilities & commit to steady hours? Treasurer could improve ghost town stretch of Olive directly across from Hotel Saint Louis entry
For Hill residents looking to one-up neighbors with a $16K golf cart, behold the arrival of Gateway Golf Carts at the former NTB on Kingshighway. $1M+ of bldg renovations getting started
Also why are there so many abandoned cars in the City Treasurer-owned garage at 7th & Pine? Cars unmoved for years w/ flat tires and caked in dust 🤔
Fiddlehead Fern to open 2nd location in the former Songbird space at 4476 Chouteau in the Grove
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Sunday in Shaw
- Conversion of Mt. Olive Church to Apartments progressing (after a 🔥)
- Long, long vacant split-use brick baller on busy S. Grand under rehab (multi-fam permit issued)
- Framing going up on the Green House Venture Education Center
- Brick infill single-fam well underway.
How did I never see this. That's literally the best photo available of the Dust Bowl in Mill Creek, where they played baseball at Grand/Market and there's a fucking football game taking place...
That would have been exhibit gold
3 story brick exterior structure well underway at the corner of Tower Grove Ave and Vista.
Closer pic of the exterior detailing on the Tower Grove side.
Forest Park SE Fill-in Friday! 🧵
The “Square On Tower Grove” is moving along and pre-leasing. 1 beds $1,877+ and 2 beds (I believe these are 2 story townhome-style units) $2,805+. 1/
I covered the inside and outside back in September: stlouispatina.com/chapel-of-th...
1015 Locust is for sale - remove the curtain walls!
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In 1941 Lungstra's Cleaning and Dye Co moved from 1300 Park Ave, their original plant built in 1874 to 2101 S. Vandeventer. What a glow down
Perfect example of how many of the postcards you see of St. Louis in the era of 1905-1920 are actually based on photographs.
“Gerard Craft will transition his [Expat BBQ] concept at the City Foundry to a sports-centric bar and event space called Brickline Brew House in partnership with BEAST Craft BBQ”
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“David Lambiaso, one of the developers behind the project, will go before the board on March 19 to argue for a conditional use permit”
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Why am I only now reading about this new chapel at Resurrection Cemetery in Affton? 🤔 As featured in Dezeen?
(Architecture by Design Alliance, landscape by SWT, built by BSI)
www.dezeen.com/2026/02/24/d...
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