Redevelopment

The city’s Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority paid about $2.6 million Friday for the 10 parcels that make up the vacant parking garage and surface lot that comprise the city block.

A study released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution examines how St. Louis could reverse the perception of downtown as a "real estate nightmare" by converting office buildings to residential uses.

The development by AHM Group aims to transform 12 acres north of CityPark into more than 450 apartment units and tens of thousands of square feet of offices and retail.

The Staenberg Group has plans to redevelop the site into a “Downtown Chesterfield” with housing, retail spaces, restaurants and more. Developers expect it to be four years before people can start moving into new residential units.

It’s a project that takes cues from similar ones built across the country in recent years in places like Austin, Dallas, Phoenix and San Jose.

The small district tucked directly north of the Gateway Arch National Park has quietly undergone a massive redevelopment in the past half-dozen years.

The new wellness center, once completed, will offer a place to help men recover from addiction in a region that only has a handful of detox beds.

St. Louis business leaders announce financial incentives aimed at bringing businesses downtown. They say $350,000 in grants and other incentives could attract retail shops, restaurants and pop-up enterprises.

For the past two and a half years, the 90-some students of Venice Elementary have been going to a makeshift school in Granite City after their school was condemned.

Jeff-Vander-Lou and St. Louis Place neighborhood associations are proposing a redevelopment to city officials that would allow residents to use tax abatements to improve their homes and block eminent domain from being used to force them to sell.