10.14.2009 1:02 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just received a copy of the agenda for next week’s meeting of the Mo. Development Finance Board - which can serve as a useful indicator of which major projects are moving forward, and which are not.
First, the good news: Express Scripts…

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09.25.2009 3:21 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Urban Land Institute’s Jamestown Mall panel will present a full report to the St. Louis County Economic Council in 90 days. But to see the presentation they gave Friday morning, click here.

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09.10.2009 4:54 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It’s becoming a regular occurrence.
Each month, the agenda of the Missouri Development Finance Board comes out. Each month, it includes no mention of Ballpark Village. In other words, the long-awaited project is still on hold.
MDFB must sign off on the…

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04.22.2009 6:05 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Office vacancies rose a bit in the first quarter, but so did rents. And the region added 272,000 square feet of occupied office space, mostly in the health care sector, according to a report out Wednesday from brokerage Colliers Turley…

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04.21.2009 1:17 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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04.20.2009 10:01 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In case you missed it, we had a short item in print editions of the Post-Dispatch today about the St. Louis County Council seeking proposals for redevelopment of a 17.4 acre site at North Hanley and Geiger Roads, just south…

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03.24.2009 10:06 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Monday, we reported that median home prices for February fell again across much of the region. Today, we take a look at what, exactly, those prices would buy you in different parts of the St. Louis region.
We start our tour in…

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03.17.2009 9:49 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Looks like the plan to revitalize the Jamestown Mall has hit a detour.
Colleague Paul Hampel reports that the St. Louis County Council withdrew its support Monday night for the $120 million project. They were concerned about a lack of financing from…

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02.19.2009 1:43 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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02.12.2009 6:03 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just came back from a forum at UMSL on the neighborhood impacts of foreclosures in the St. Louis region. A few interesting findings from UMSL researchers William Rogers and Will Winter:
- Over the last year, home prices have fallen fastest…

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