Downtown Living Tour This Weekend
Increasingly Downtown living is the place to be. For the past five years we’ve seen more and more lofts become available and the population is steadily increasing. This is in part due to the twice per year Downtown Living Tour where you can easily see nearly all the projects going on downtown. And, each year the list continues to grow with 25 this year. The tour is this weekend, June 10-11, and will be held from noon to 5pm both days. Tickets for the tour are $12 and can be purchased at the starting point at the corner of Washington & Tucker. Click here for more information.
The tour will take you through both rental & for sale projects. The other day I got a sneak peak at one such project, the Majestic Stove Lofts. Developer Robert Wood gave me a personal tour of this 3-building project which has been in the works for five years. This project is all rental with some really unique spaces and some great finishes. I will be doing a full review soon but be sure to check it out this weekend.
Separate from the tour will be many lofts that are individually for sale and listed with real estate agents, such as myself. In the 10th Street Lofts five units are for sale ranging from $329,900 to $664,500 and all will be open both Saturday & Sunday afternoon. No ticket is required to see these lofts. I will be at my listing in the 10th Street lofts, 1010 St. Charles #804, from noon to 5pm both days so be sure to stop by. A quick scan of the MLS shows a number of lofts open in other buildings as well so there is a lot to see this weekend.
The meters are free downtown on the weekend so no need to worry about that. Of course, MetroLink is convenient and you can always bike or scoot downtown. Even if you are not in the market for a loft, come check it out and have some lunch or gelato and take in the urbanity.
– Steve
Steve, I have a question for you regarding the renovation of the Old Post Office.
Your main complaint w/r/t this project was the destruction of the building next to it (the name I forget… the Century Building, maybe?) for a new parking garage.
This seemed (and does still seem) tragic to me, too. But at the time, I assumed that the destruction of the old building/creation of the parking lot was *insisted* upon by the *Developer* as a necessary component of the overall project.
Reading Suburban Nation right now, I see that most cities have ordinances *mandating* the creation of new parking structures with the erection (and/or renovation?) of new buildings.
So which was the case here? Should we direct our ire to the developer who tore down the building, or the city code that demanded it be torn down?
[REPLY – St. Louis’ codes like so many cities are outdated and require excess parking while smart cites like Portland OR actually limit parking in their CBD to encourage compact design, density and use of mass transit. However, in the case of the Century the city & developer are both to blame. Both were in the deal together by ignoring the available parking within a couple of blocks each direction as well as ignoring the option of actually putting parking in the Century buiding itself. – SLP]
Mike,
I fear that your innocently-posed question may set off community-wide retching in the St. Louis urblogosphere…
Another bucket, please…
I hope they’d consider not charging admission.
I’m interested to see what’s popping up there. But, I don’t see the reasoning in charging for the opportunity to see developers make their sales pitches.
I’ve never had a listing agent charge me twelve bucks at the door at an open house!
I went down and have to say, I was thoroughly unimpressed by the lofts I saw.
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