Urban Living Archives

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 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…

October 9, 2017 6 comments

Last week, Civil Life’s proprietor, Jake Hafner, gave his annual State of the Beer Union address on the parking…

September 27, 2017 28 comments

Six new single-family market-rate homes are planned for the 4200 block of Maryland in the Central West End. The first …

September 26, 2017 67 comments

The East West Gateway Council of Governments (EWG) Board of Directors will voted this week to approve Transportation Alternative Program…

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 21, 2017 15 comments

In 1975, the Ford Administration pushed out the federal Earned Income Tax Credit as a way to shield low-wage workers…

September 19, 2017 24 comments

Fifty-one single family market rate houses and townhomes are planned for the Vandeventer neighborhood. Located just a few blocks North …

September 13, 2017 2 comments

On May 27, 1896, a tornado known as the Great Cyclone ripped through St. Louis killing 255 people and destroying …

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 …