Update 05/22/2025 After a very long wait, work finally seems to be underway on 144 W Adams. The lot has been leveled and the site shed is in place. Here’s to hoping things go vertical soon! The site as of May 2025 Update 06/07/2023 The fourth unit is back, and the design has changed as… Continue reading West Adams Missing Middle Set to Rise at Last
Update 01/07/2021: The Starbucks was unanimously voted down upon first reading. I'll keep you updated if Starbucks comes back to the drawing board as I suspect they will. Previous Story: First of all, I just want to say sorry for going AWOL for a couple months. The end of the semester got sort of busy… Continue reading The Starbucks Project is Really Bad, Actually.
I've long contended that Webster Groves and Kirkwood are natural rivals. That Webster certainly had it's advantages: A more distinguished cultural scene facilitated by Webster University and especially its very legitimate Repertory Theatre, and a more distinguished culinary scene featuring four restaurants on Ian Froeb's STL100 (including two in the top ten: #5 Olive +… Continue reading Arms Race: Webster Groves Takes a Step Kirkwood Must Match
Update 11/20/2020 Last night, a proposal recently redubbed "The Hutton", Savoy's twelve unit condominium proposal for 134-138 West Madison was approved 6-1. Pitched as the"last of it's kind" by Savoy, this project completes their rapid transformation of this block long stretch that up until very recently had been dominated by small businesses located in small… Continue reading The Hutton
Well, it's been a while, but we finally once again have news on the development front. Next week, after more than a three month layoff, Kirkwood's Planning & Zoning Committee will meet for double session: once on Tuesday and once on Wednesday. They will have a jam-packed agenda to take on when they do so.… Continue reading Starbucks, Flats, and Banks, Oh My!
Manchester Road is the chicken and the egg problem at a Kirkwood-sized scale. New developments are built as auto-centric and car oriented because Manchester accommodates nothing else, and the Manchester corridor accommodates nothing else because everything that is built along it is built in an auto-centric way. If Manchester is to ever improve, if the… Continue reading Manchester Road
A new 125-unit, mixed-use, independent living project is in the works for 300-350 N. Kirkwood Road, a site currently occupied by Commerce Bank and its parking lot. Sound familiar? No, this is not the Kirkwood Flats/UMB Bank proposal, (that one would be across the street), but rather a brand new project in what is turning… Continue reading 125 Apartments Coming to Commerce Bank Site?
Update 05/22/2025 After a very long wait, work finally seems to be underway on 144 W Adams. The lot has been leveled and the site shed is in place. Here's to hoping things go vertical soon! The site as of May 2025 Update 06/07/2023 The fourth unit is back, and the design has changed as… Continue reading 144 W Adams Set to Start at Last
Update 07/07/2020: Construction on the site is underway and we've gotten our first glimpse of what the finished form of the product will look like. Turns out it basically looks like every other house in Kirkwood, just closer together and without a big garage in front. See everybody, building more homes can be painless! Rendering… Continue reading The Townes at Geyer Grove
Please Note: I should have linked to this Webster Kirkwood Times article on the rail spur that much of this proposal is based off of. It is interesting and informative, and great local journalism. But I did not because, like an idiot, I did not read it until after I finished writing this post. It… Continue reading Grant’s Trail Extension: A Silver Bullet
