Work is set to resume on the Park Pacific project downtown now that the developer, Lawrence Group, has gotten a commitment on a $56 million federally insured loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Lawrence Group says HUD…

Word comes today that St. Louis officials are supporting a request of bondholders of the Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotels to help out in a plan to raise some money for the financially struggling convention hotel downtown.

A report of a…

A ribbon cutting scheduled for tomorrow morning will mark completion of the year-long renovation of the Railton Residence, The Salvation Army’s affordable downtown housing development, at 205 North 18th Street.

The Salvation Army has owned the Railton, formerly the Robert E.…

Among the effects of a bank failure in Chicago is a delay in the multimillion-dollar renovation of the Marriott Hotel at Union Station in downtown St. Louis.

Owner Gus Cervetto of Chesterfield-based CB&E Construction Group says he pulled his dozen or…

View from 7th and Washington; One City Centre in background

In case you missed it, today’s P-D has a story (read it here) about plans to redo St. Louis Centre.

The plan is interesting and it’s part of a project to make over…

A developer is seeking $2.35 million in tax-increment financing to rehab an empty downtown St. Louis building designed in 1941 to house Post-Dispatch presses. The building would house stores and offices.

The building at 1111 Olive Street later housed KSDK-TV and…

Sale of the Railway Exchange Building in downtown St. Louis is moving ahead with local developers prepared to reconfigure its main tenant–Macy’s–to three floors.

That’s the word this morning on Mayor Francis Slay’s website, mayorslay.com. According to the website, the city’s…

Plans are moving ahead for a $150 million transformation of the former Dillard’s department store downtown into apartments, a hotel, shops and restaurants.

Developer Amos Harris says he hopes the project is done in early 2012. Included in the work is…

Members of a key state agency this morning gave their initial OK to a $5 million loan to help kickstart renovations of the under-used One City Center office tower in downtown St. Louis.

The Missouri Development Finance Board agreed to enter…

City officials next week will take the next step in getting improvements to One City Center off the ground when they ask a state board for a $5 million loan to rehab the office tower.

The under-used 6th Street building, which…