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: 03/03/2023 New renderings have been made available for 60 apartments coming to 300 N. Kirkwood Rd. Of greatest note is the inclusion of balconies for the first time, a change that Kirkwood's City Council encouraged the developers to explore during the hearing. We also have gotten our first rendering of the building's pool deck:… Continue reading Kirkwood Apartments Coming to Downtown
The area around Madison and Monroe, for a while now, has seemed to be the hotbed for development in Kirkwood. As far back as 2004, with the construction of the massive Kirkwood Plaza development, all the way through to today with the development of the Hutton, the final of Savoy's three condo developments along Madison,… Continue reading The Birth of Downtown North
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.
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 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
