On January 8th, Kirkwood City Council will hold a public hearing on Double Eagle Development's proposal for the former public works site. The proposal, the Council's preferred response of the six they received, calls for 203 homes across six all-residential buildings and 303 surface parking spots. In reviewing each of the RFP responses, a picture… Continue reading How Double Eagle Won Over the Council
Well folks, after nearly a year of waiting, the results of the Request for Proposals on the former Public Works site have finally surfaced via this week's Planning & Zoning agenda. The selected proposal comes from St. Louis-based Double Eagle Development and calls for 202 homes across six four-story buildings, accompanied by 247 parking spots.… Continue reading 202 Homes Proposed for Former Public Works Site
Update 02/07/2025: At last night's meeting, City Council passed a modified version of the sidewalk infill zoning text amendment. Instead of ditching the requirement that homeowners building large additions be required to add sidewalks wholesale, the Council decided instead to expand Director of Public Services Chris Krueger's discretion in deciding whether or not sidewalk infill… Continue reading Foregoing Sidewalks Won’t Make Kirkwood Affordable
Kirkwood has issued a Request For Proposals for mixed-use development on 6 city-owned acres in the heart of Downtown. The city hopes the responses will yield a multi-faceted windfall for the community, but the stipulations listed in the RFP and the —$12.5 million the city has already sunk into facilitating such development— may mean that… Continue reading Public Works Site RFP Issued: Kirkwood Seeks to Recoup $12.5M
I've written 95 stories since I started Kirkwood Gadfly back in 2017. Of those 100 stories, my three stories covering the Jefferson RFP responses the city rejected rank 2, 3, and 8 in terms of numbers of views. Why? Well, my theory goes a little something like this: Kirkwood residents have repeatedly indicated that their… Continue reading Council Passes on $60m Investment & 362 Parking Spaces from NOVUS
I've long made the case that in order for Kirkwood to get the most out of its significant development in the Grant's Trail extension, they should clear the way for the private sector to invest in the land alongside it. That mostly means loosening zoning restrictions for what uses are allowed on adjacent land, but… Continue reading Present & Future Development Along Grant’s Trail
Last week I wrote that the city had officially rejected IPG's proposal for the city-owned East Jefferson Parking Lot. That plan would have added a 66-room boutique hotel, shopping, and a net increase of over a hundred parking spots to Downtown Kirkwood, but it was only one-half of their submission to the city. Today I… Continue reading IPG Part 2: Council Rejects Another $33m of Investment
There has long been a lament amongst the Kirkwood intelligentsia that maybe adding more homes is good in theory, but the development we've actually gotten in the recent past are of the wrong type. They're too big and too expensive. In other words, they're ruining the charm of Kirkwood while doing nothing to address its… Continue reading A Closer Look at Kirkwood’s Building Code
Update 10/02/2023: New Renderings were made available in Monday's Architectural Review Board agenda: Additionally, in an interview with the St. Louis Business Journal, the developer stated that price ranges for non-penthouse condos would range from $750,000 to $1.5 million. That's a lot of dough, but if Kirkwood can stockpile 42 rich families on a single… Continue reading 42-Unit “Aria” Coming to Downtown
Update: 05/02/2025 The Kirkwood Apartments are dead after a construction permit expired earlier this spring. Cause of Death (presumably): Stubbornly high interest rates (a policy response to stubbornly high inflation) made the project unprofitable at its current scope. It's a shame that the lot will continue to sit empty and unused, but I doubt we… Continue reading Kirkwood Apartments: Dead on Arrival
