Five years after it opened, the verdict seems to be in: The Kirkwood Performing Arts Center is a boondoggle. It's easy to see how large swathes of the community arrived at that conclusion. The $26 million, 525-seat venue has lost the city an average of $225,000 per year on operations and costs it an additional… Continue reading In Defense of KPAC
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42-Unit “Aria” Coming to Downtown
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
Performing Arts Center: Is this Acting?
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?