Update 08/19/2021 After receiving first reading approval on a 5-2 vote, Altus used up almost all of their year-long window to submit their final plans. That wait is finally over. At tonight's Planning & Zoning meeting, they will present the fruits of that process, and pending a pro-forma second reading approval by City Council, begin… Continue reading The James (formerly the Kirkwood Flats)
Update (12/7/19) As the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center moves towards completion, (scheduled for May) exciting news regarding traffic calming infrastructure at its intersection emerges. Generic rendering of a raised intersection! First brought to my attention via the Safer Streets for Kirkwood facebook page and corroborated by the city's website, a raised intersection is coming to… Continue reading Performing Arts Center: Is this Acting?
Update (05/06/2019) Rendering of The Barclay condos courtesy of CityScene STL More details (and perhaps most excitingly a rendering) have emerged regarding the recently green lighted condominiums at the corner of Clay & Madison. Chris Stritzel of CityScene STL reports that the building, marketed as “The Barclay” will cost approximately 12 million dollars and take… Continue reading The Barclay Condos
Updates (07/27/2019) Yikes... (02/22/2019) Kirkwork's design seems to be a pretty solid one. The structure is built to the street with parking limited to the sides and rear of the building. While dual curb cuts onto Big Bend (one on either side of the building) are less than ideal, they do represent an improvement from… Continue reading Kirkwork & The Triangle
Update: After the February 7th city council public hearing, more details are known regarding the proposed apartments. The first thing to notice is that the apartments are actually comprised of two separate buildings. In addition to better fitting the shape of the lot, this seems to be in an effort to adhere to zoning language… Continue reading Big Bend, Big NIMBY
Kirkwood Gadfly often, almost exclusively, focuses on hypotheticals and things that should happen rather than things that actually are happening. That's for a variety of reasons I guess but mostly its because I don't know anything more than you do. I'm really not sure how other people that are good at this, buildingstlnews.com and nextstl.com,… Continue reading The Madison: A Mid-Summer’s Update
Meramec Community College's large campus and voluminous student traffic makes for a challenging environment to craft a more walkable neighborhood. With that being said, however, there are steps that can be taken in both the short-term an the long-term to ensure that this stretch of Geyer is not only walkable for the residences that sit… Continue reading College Town
Kirkwood Road is the eye of the hurricane that is Kirkwood. Around it the rest of Kirkwood, especially downtown Kirkwood, revolves, taking its energy and spinning that energy ever further outward. Just because Kirkwood Road is doing its job, however, doesn't mean that, given ideal conditions, it can't further organize, coalesce, and strengthen. Step One… Continue reading Kirkwood Road Re-Imagined
