Redevelopment

It’s a project that takes cues from similar ones built across the country in recent years in places like Austin, Dallas, Phoenix and San Jose.

The small district tucked directly north of the Gateway Arch National Park has quietly undergone a massive redevelopment in the past half-dozen years.

The new wellness center, once completed, will offer a place to help men recover from addiction in a region that only has a handful of detox beds.

St. Louis business leaders announce financial incentives aimed at bringing businesses downtown. They say $350,000 in grants and other incentives could attract retail shops, restaurants and pop-up enterprises.

For the past two and a half years, the 90-some students of Venice Elementary have been going to a makeshift school in Granite City after their school was condemned.

Jeff-Vander-Lou and St. Louis Place neighborhood associations are proposing a redevelopment to city officials that would allow residents to use tax abatements to improve their homes and block eminent domain from being used to force them to sell.

The region’s urban core has struggled to rebound since the pandemic, with a slew of companies relocating their offices away from downtown. Urban centers with more diverse economic sectors have shown to be more resilient coming back from the pandemic.

The demolition process will be complete by next summer. In the meantime, St. Louis Port Authority, which owns the 142-acre property, will start the process of figuring out how to redevelop the space.

The Gamma Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority plans to turn the north St. Louis home of Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, one of its founders, into a museum for Black women. The chapter’s foundation also will build a community center next to the museum.

The developer, Green Street Properties, hopes to open the entertainment venue in December. Original plans for the site included office space.