There’s more space available, for less money, than there has been in quite some time in this town.

That’s the nut of a new report from CB Richard Ellis on the St. Louis commercial real estate market.

The lousy economy and high…

Office vacancy rates fell a bit in the second quarter in the St. Louis area, but the amount of space available for sublease grew, according to a new report out today from real estate brokerage CB Richard Ellis.

In all, nearly…

The rise of big-box retail raises all sorts of tricky questions for development, but one of the trickiest is this: What do you do with the box after the retailer has moved on?

One attempt at an answer opened Tuesday in…

Just came back from the big SIOR 2009 St. Louis Metro Market Forecast in Clayton this morning. And, along with a healthy dose of gallows humor and a fair number of “light at the end of the tunnel” analogies, we…

The latest sign of the fast-weakening commercial real estate market came today, in new Commerce Department numbers showing something we haven’t yet seen: Construction spending on big building projects is falling faster than it is on homes.

Yes, private sector residential construction…

Want to buy an old Dillard’s?

Now’s your chance.

Commercial brokerage Solon Gershman Inc. said today they will sell the 220,000-square-foot former Dillard’s at the Jamestown Mall to the highest bidder this April. The old department store, which closed in 2006 and…

Normally, Building Blocks likes to stay focused on St. Louis-area real estate, but some sad news this morning tugged at the heartstrings of this native Bostonian.

The John Hancock Tower, the 60-story I.M. Pei-designed glass tower that holds the title…

In researching this story about the re-use of empty big-box retail stores, which ran in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch, I came across an interesting experiment by Joel Garreau, “cultural revolution” correspondent at the Washington Post.

Back in November, he enlisted a team of architects…

Interesting piece in the New York Times Thursday looking at the prospects for more consolidation among small and mid-sized banks in the months to come, as the commercial real estate market sours. We’ve already seen a big shakeout among the…

The latest proposal for Ballpark Village takes up much of the agenda for a Thursday hearing of the Housing, Urban Development and Zoning subcommittee of the St. Louis Board of Alderman.

The long-awaited project, currently slated to be an office tower…