Greg Johnson, Author at nextSTL

October 20, 2017 9 comments

For the past twenty years, Lindell Blvd has been my own private freeway. I work on one edge of the…

October 19, 2017 8 comments

A St. Louis developer is moving ahead with plans to convert the former Metro headquarters at 701 N. 1st Street …

October 17, 2017 54 comments

A block-long commercial stretch in Carondelet faces potential demolition. The Watkins Block at 7200-30 South Broadway forms the center of…

October 12, 2017 20 comments

A midcentury landmark will fall to the wrecking ball to make room for new green space along the south side …

October 10, 2017 31 comments

My favorite residential street in St. Louis isn’t a tree-lined Central West End boulevard of stately European mansions. No. It’s…

September 25, 2017 25 comments

An abandoned modernist gas station in Benton Park soon will be serving clean food and grass-fed burgers. With project leadership …

September 22, 2017 27 comments

Jassen Johnson of Renaissance Development Associates is redeveloping 429 N. Euclid in the Central West End as mixed use residential …

September 12, 2017 11 comments

William B. Ittner’s historic Clark School on Union Blvd is slated to become 44 market rate apartments. Helix Realty of …

September 11, 2017 27 comments

Woodward Lofts LLC closed last month on the Suburban Packaging building on Tower Grove Avenue just North of Vandeventer. The …

September 8, 2017 9 comments

The vacant 16 story Chemical Building at 721 Olive Street downtown has a new owner. According to city records, Morgan …

April 14, 2017 37 comments

Thousands of students descended on the modern new campus on opening day in September 1967. There were housewives and veterans,…

April 9, 2016 10 comments

In one of its largest efforts at land assemblage since Ikea, the Cortex Innovation Community is seeing the demolition of…