Tonight at 7:00 pm, Kirkwood's Community Land Trust is holding a meeting at Kirkwood United Methodist Church featuring Farrell Carfield, executive director of the Webster Groves Community Land Trust. If you care about Kirkwood remaining a place for middle-class families and ensuring that the people who keep it running can afford to live here, I'd… Continue reading Double Eagle Be Damned: What If We Used Tax Breaks for Teacher Housing Instead?
Thirteen years ago, an ambitious plan to turn the intersection of Manchester and Kirkwood Road into a second walkable downtown fizzled, leaving behind an auto-oriented CVS and a Fresh Thyme grocery store. Now that long-stalled neighborhood may be getting a second chance. Debrecht Properties and their partners, CORE10 Architects, will go before the Planning &… Continue reading 38 New Condos Proposed For N. Kirkwood Rd
Last week I wrote up how Double Eagle won the Public Works sweepstakes. Ahead of this Thursday's City Council public hearing on the Double Eagle proposal, I wanted to explore the other proposals that the Council passed up. The Public Works RFP process unfolded in two stages. Initial bids were submitted by five applicants —Double… Continue reading Public Works Site: The Rejects
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
After winding itself through the approval process three times, the Council finally offered first reading approval to Pitman Place, the 60-apartment mixed-use project proposed for the former Commerce Bank site at 300 N. Kirkwood Road, at their November 20th meeting. The Kirkwood City Council was supposed to issue its verdict on the project in early… Continue reading Council Greenlights Pitman Place
I've long maintained that Kirkwood's tear-down crisis is merely a symptom of how expensive our land has become. After you spend $500k to purchase the lot, spending another $200k to tear down the existing small home that sits on the lot and build a new bigger one seems like small potatoes. The Venn diagram of… Continue reading How To Revive the Starter Home
The rumors of the Kirkwood Apartments' demise are greatly exaggerated. Just a few months after the 300 N. Kirkwood Rd project was finally pronounced dead, a new developer, TriStar Properties, has revived it in much of its original form —60 apartments, 2,940 square feet of retail, and 111 parking spaces across four stories— utilizing the… Continue reading Kirkwood Apartments: Episode II – Return of the Apartments
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
A few weeks back I began my exploration of the proposals that had been submitted to Kirkwood City Council in response to the RFP the city issued on the two city owned surface parking lots on Jefferson Ave. We first looked at IPG's proposal for a mixed-use boutique hotel and parking structure on the East… Continue reading PJ’s Rejected Proposal Shows the High Price of NIMBYism
