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Not sure who needs to hear this besides everyone. (Metro level data from
@EWGateway
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We’ll this is the kind of traffic jam you don’t mind seeing. Donation drop off line for Afghan refugees goes around the corner at
@iistl
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Row of four newbie townhomes made to look like oldies is wrapping up in Benton Park. End unit is “Coming Soon” at $495k.
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Advocates of so-called "Missing Middle Housing" pee their pants with this kind of Saint Louis City badassery. (Six unit condo building, built 1913, just off South Grand in Tower Grove East.)
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Election night results if Harris promises to sign an Executive Order banning provel cheese within her first 100 days in office.
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A row of newbies made to look like oldies in Lafayette Square. Silly gooses.
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@whstancil
A lot of kids in the southern part of the Saint Louis metro are having a snow day today. I weep over their futures being ruined.
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You can see my boys in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri tomorrow! Cardinals, too!
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omg this 1929 Princeton Heights home that just sold. I don't know what architects call this Saint Louis style; I'll just refer to it as hot.
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Seen along S. Kingshighway:
“neighborhoods are for neighbors. NOT SHORT TERM RENTALS.”
Anyone know if these yard signs are going up citywide?
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As a famous St. Louisan once remarked, "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded!"
Old Victorian walking parks make for such a great place to host a festival
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Came across this oddity in Benton Park. “City of New Orleans Louisiana.”
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New owner of this long vacant 1892 home in Fountain Park received a rehab permit. Hopefully it'll get back in action soon!
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An exquisite multi-fam down in Carondolet has some renovated units listing for rent.
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Instead of becoming part of Illinois, heavily Democratic St. Louis City & STL County should become the State of Saint Louis. It's 1.3M population would be greater than numerous states including Montana, Wyoming and North and South Dakota. Merge N & S Dakota and we stay 50 states!
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I complimented someone for their nice garden landscaping while walking by one of these new homes in FPSE and the person replied they were just staying for the weekend. Sure enough, turns out it’s a short-term rental owned by an investor. And it’s 100% tax-abated. 👎
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Ocean's 11 but where Kansas City and Saint Louis metros heist vaccine doses deprived of them by the governor who hates them.
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Speaking of Paul Mckee. Yet another of his properties up in flames last night.
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Expressway/Interstate construction really did the dirty on American cities. I'll do an on-going 🧵on some of what went down in Saint Louis City, starting with this hell hole by Anheuser-Busch. Began in the 1950s as the Ozark Expressway; now known as I-55.
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Guten Morgen, Saint Louis, Missouri!
After 20 some years as a board up, the old Bavarian Inn on Arsenal once again is a looker. Not sure on specific plans (a second building is in back) but I believe it’ll be multi-fam/commercial use.
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Still completely wild to me that St. Louis City has fewer people now than it did in 1870 yet it still has a significantly higher population density today than Atlanta. Such a fascinating, complex city.
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STL City has among the highest number of old industrial buildings converted into new uses (mostly residential but some office, etc.), but no dice yet for the old Falstaff Brewery in Benton Park. Hopefully there’s still time for this important part of our city’s brewing history.
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This infill container house in the Tiffany neighborhood looks like it turned out pretty nice. A lil different for the Brick City.
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Good morning from Saint Louis, Missouri. I hope you have a fantastic day!
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Good morning, St. Louis! Anyone looking for a round mound of Mid Century Modern?
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1948 pic of Mill Creek Valley; what loss.
Not sure how mid-20th Century STL City planners and officials thought that clearing whole neighborhoods and enacting restrictive zoning would add people, but they did. And their legacy continues to this day with structural racism. Let's end that, please.
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OMG, SLU really did it. Sold premier lots extremely well suited for mixed use development along S. Grand, our region's highest frequency bus line, to QuickTrip. I thought it was a joke when I first heard about this. Hang your heads in shame
@SLU_Official
@ProspectYards
.
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Those who say that America doesn't have magnificent cathedrals are simply wrong.
A thread of the finest churches in the U.S. 🧵
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Some “Missing Middle” eye candy in Benton Park. 4 infill townhomes nearing completion.
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Three-fam Thursday!
This rather unusual infill three-fam in the Central West End is making slow but steady progress. Looks like it may be getting close to lift-off!
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Split-use Sunday! A sandwich shop will be opening in the commercial space of this circa 1906 baller on Morgan Ford.
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The state of the Lemp Brewery complex is so sad to see. Such untapped potential though still for this massive place.
(2 pics of one of the buildings undergoing partial demolition after a collapse. Pic on bottom right of another portion of the large complex.)
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Good morning, St. Louis, it’s Three-Fam Thursday!
This one has been underway in the CWE for some time, but the Skelton crew is making slow but sure progress.
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Was sad when this wee one from the antebellum period (and possibly connected to the Underground Railroad) was all alone. One of the nicer rehab saves of the year and she's not so lonely anymore.
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Just one game into the season and Cardinals fans already are fed up.
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Still can't believe the jabroni who got pulled over for going 76 in a 60 mph zone and got out of his car and later called the respectful officer who didn't escalate an a**hole while crying to the media is an alderman who chairs the Public Safety Committee. Oh, Saint Louis.
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It’s Happening! Cheese curds coming to S. Kingshighway!
iirc this will be some kind of chain coming to the old Courtesy Diner.
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Two tremendous turrets for your Tuesday.
Forest Park SE on left and the Gate District on right. Don’t fret, the fencing surrounding the long vacant Garavaglia’s building is not for demo; it’s poised for a rehab by new owners.
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Ah, yes, the famous Saint Louis February patio season is in full swing! (These ballers are all in Shaw; I believe all split-use but not fully sure if all 3 have apts. up top.)
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Someone reminded me it’s Turret Tuesday so here’s Soulard submission.
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Sorry to interrupt, but I suspect you might like a turret with your Tuesday.
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Sure it may be grey and rainy but it’s still a festive Four-Fam Friday!
I believe all of the 15 four-fams on this block in TGS were built in 1929, but each has individual touches in design. Baller of a block.
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If a neighborhood doesn’t have a windmill is it actually even a neighborhood?
Pondering while at a stoplight in Bevo Mill.
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Oh, wow, my TL has been full of collapsing buildings and other threats of demo recently. But here's some good news! SLU agrees to sell the Olive ballers instead of demo.
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Developer Spitzberg-Lassen
Rendering by architect Design Alliance.
14 2-story townhomes over 14 garden apts. 28 parking spaces, the max.
No tax incentives.
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Pretty sad how STL is trying to figure out how to extract itself from the trolley folly while KC is figuring out how to offer free public bus service.
The City Council just took a monumental, unanimous step toward
#ZeroFareTransit
– setting Kansas City up to soon become the first major metropolitan city with free public bus service.
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Ghost bike on S. Grand this morning for Danyell McMiller, killed by a hit and run driver earlier this week. (Decoy police car.) Very sad.
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Self-confident 1883 wee in Soulard refusing to be intimidated by its larger neighbors just sold.
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Someone (with CA address) bought this four-fam in Soulard in 2019 for $300k, painted the brick in violation of the historic preservation ordinance, and is now trying to avoid the paint police by selling it for $650k. Units are Airbnb currently.
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A wee bit of change from 2022 to today for this 1890s oldie in Gravois Park. Listing for $575k.
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TopGolf construction is coming along in a former intensive industrial area of Midtown (The poles are for the netting.) Will be interesting to see what comes to the prime grass lots across from TopGolf owned by SLU.
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A few years ago I had a thread on how Henry Shaw was a cruel enslaver. I was surprised by how many St. Louisans were unaware and felt the
@mobotgarden
needed to step up in telling this story. I was so pleased to see this sign last night and I look forward to seeing the result.
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This part rehab/part new construction project on Morgan Ford is nearing completion and leasing has begun. Studios at $1,250+ and 1 beds at $1,400+/mo. (I think there’ll be some 2 beds as well.) A hair salon will move down the street and take up the ground floor commercial space.
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This City. This State. Such good people here but such horrible leadership.
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Peed myself a lil seeing this Soulardian. According to the listing it's known as the "Keyhole House" for it's unique entryway and the 1800's home was built by the city's premiere brick mason of the time.
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Neighborhood music school in a baller building. (In TGE.) Could hear piano playing as I walked by on this beautiful day.
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Pretty neat noticing new things while walking on a nice sunny day.
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Re-posting an oldie but goodie for "Missing Middle Monday!"
Advocates of so-called "Missing Middle Housing" pee their pants with this kind of Saint Louis City badassery. (Six unit condo building, built 1913, just off South Grand in Tower Grove East.)
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Senator
@HawleyMO
needs to pay a high price for helping lead this descent into insurrection. Clearly he is unfit for office and possibly seditious. His political career should be over.
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Splendidly Spooky! This 1889 haunted house is on S. Kingshighway across from Terror Grove Park:
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Good night, Chicago.
Good night, Wisconsin.
Good night, Saint Louis.
Good night.
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I’m late to the Fill-In Friday party, but here’s some residential infill in the Benton Park neighborhood.
First up, a four townhome project wrapping up and on the market (one unit appears under contract) and a two townhome project making progress. 1/2
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Painting red brick oldies has been all the rage lately but here’s a rare restoration removing yellow paint. (In TGE.)
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In theory police are supposed to protect and serve rather than recklessly ram their vehicles into South City split-uses. I can’t imagine living upstairs your biz and that happen to you; and then you get arrested and held without bond.
Breaking: St. Louis Police have now filed felony assault charges against a Bar:PM co-owner. The incident began when police crashed their SUV into the LGBTQ bar in the early hours this morning
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I believe prohibiting short-term rentals for tax abated properties like this is among the proposed amendments from
@CaraSpencerSTL
on the bills coming up for debate by the full Board of Aldermen.
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Introducing New STL City. Added the area outlined in black to current city limits to get 135 sq.mi. - the size of Atlanta. (Adds over 40 small incorporated cities/villages and the airport.) Density is eroded some but the 2020 population is about 540k, still more than ATL's 499k.
Still completely wild to me that St. Louis City has fewer people now than it did in 1870 yet it still has a significantly higher population density today than Atlanta. Such a fascinating, complex city.
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Damn, another long vacant oldie in a hot market neighborhood owned by a long-time absentee owner from the County that is now at risk of collapse. And this one hasn't paid taxes since 2020.
@stlcsb
@CaraSpencerSTL
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Unfortunately passengers exiting Union Station were met with snail's pace streetcar service on congested streets. But imagine upon arrival to STL being whisked away to the CBD, Midtown or West End in minutes via subway/rapid transit. There were plans, but they never materialized.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, the busiest train station in the world at the end of the 19th century wasn’t in Europe. It wasn’t even on the east coast of the US. It was this one:
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This circa 1933 building on Cherokee recently completed a renovation. It previously had a National Rent to Own store on the ground floor and I believe was vacant up top. Now there’s three local small businesses and 6 apartments with modest rents. 👍
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Good grief. No suprise, but the 1926 Report for Rapid Transit for St. Louis saw the low percentage of Foreign-Born population as among the assets that bode well for future growth for "The Most American City." No wonder the region stagnated with this kind of nativism.
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How it started and how it turned out. The 1892 West End home a couple blocks north of Delmar is listing for $675K. 👀
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Pardon me if this is tmi but I just peed myself a little looking at this Mt. Pleasant 1893 bounty of bodacious brickwork.
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So of course the St. Louis Art Fair cancelled the Palestinian dance troupe. So St. Louis.
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This Soulard Saturday’s selection is an 1800s former corner split use that had been a long time board up. The building is now under rehab and the sign for the Buell Street Pub, closed decades ago, is once again visible. (I think the project underway may be all residential.)
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Work is progressing on the residential conversion of the former Masonic Temple in Grand Center; certainly one of the more interesting projects in town. (No tax abatement. Not sure how many units.)
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St. Louis County has Tower Grove Park under military occupation right now. Looking for their escapee, I think.
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While I really enjoy the South Grand commercial district, I gotta admit Cherokee Street is something even more special imo... that sucker is more than a mile-long strip of small businesses & creativity and has a level of diversity rarely seen in this town.
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Always nice when a new restaurant sneaks up on you. I don’t think I’ve seen anything about Manileno Philippine Cuisine coming to the old Sno spot in the
@SouthGrandSTL
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This one just hits hard. One of Tower Grove South’s first Black homeowners lost the home at tax sale. Assessment was sky high. Had owned the home since the late 1970s.
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Airbnbs in general can be problematic in neighborhood settings, but ones that take active rental units off the market are especially frustrating. This four-fam in TGS was occupied with below market rents when sold a few years ago. Now a new airbnb after some reno wrapped up.
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Missing Middle Monday! This elite level baller just off S. Grand in TGE is getting some care.
Advocates of so-called "Missing Middle Housing" pee their pants with this kind of Saint Louis City badassery. (Six unit condo building, built 1913, just off South Grand in Tower Grove East.)
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These two largies are about 1,000' apart but on opposite sides of the "Delmar Divide." Both sold this month and can use some work. 1917 Visitation Park home on left sold for $255k; 1908 DeBaliviere Place home on right sold for $537k. 1/
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Funny, but not really, how the new owner of this vacant lot in SW Garden would need to get a variance in order to build a 4-fam even though it's surrounded by 4-fams and a (1926) 4-fam was on the lot until it was demolished in 2000. Make it make sense. More zoning reform, please.
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