Botanical Grove Development to Break Ground, City Garden Montessori School to Relocate

UIC+CDO is set to break ground on their Botanical Grove development this Friday, March 18th (press release below). In October 2010, nextSTL published an article titled: "4200 McRee: The Anti-Botanical Heights," providing a preview of the planned development. While much development in the City of St. Louis continues to ignore context, Botanical Grove shows that we can and are, doing things better.

In addition to 14 new and 17 renovated LEED-certified homes, Botanical Grove will be the new location for City Garden Montessori charter school. The school, with a waitlist a mile long, will be an incredible anchor to future development. UIC+CDO will renovate several contiguous structures to house the growing school, which is currently stuffed into a portion of a repurposed church at 2109 Spring Avenue in the Shaw neighborhood. The new City Garden will occupy several buildings on the northeast corner of Tower Grove and McRee Avenues.