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On March 13
at the Chase Park Plaza, St. Louis Commerce Magazine and
the RCGA are partnering with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) offering
a half-day symposium, 7:30 a.m. to noon, “Investments in Progress—Make
a Deal, Make a Difference in the Urban Core.”
Pay a little, learn a lot. Pre-registration is just $50 for ULI
members and $60 for non-members. If you pay at the door, it’s $10
more.
Roundtable participants will have the opportunity to meet and hear
insights from the developers of four project case studies, which
are also profiled in this issue’s cover story by Kevin Kipp:
• STATE STREET SHOPPING CENTER, EAST ST.
LOUIS. East St. Louis’ first retail development in 50
years, developed by Jim Koman, president of Koman Properties. Phase
one was a 15,000-square-foot Walgreens. Phase two 30,000 square
feet—now a Save-A-Lot grocery, Simply Fashion, State Farm offices
and Blockbuster Video. And they are finishing Phase three, 10,000
square feet for a Footlocker, Fashion Sense, and hopefully a pizza
place. Phase four is across the street.
• MERCHANDISE MART, ST. LOUIS, MO. Historic Restoration
Inc. (HRI), a New Orleans-based full-service real estate development
company specializing in adaptive reuse of historic structures, converted
the seven-story, 340,000-square-foot Merchandise Mart downtown into
212 apartments and an additional 10,000 square feet of street-level
retail space. Ron Silverman is senior vice president and regional
manager for HRI.
• ST. LOUIS COMMERCE CENTER, ST. LOUIS,
MO. On 20 acres at 900 North 23rd Street is Balke Brown’s
St. Louis Commerce Center I & II. In February 2000, Balke Brown
completed the first building—150,000 square feet of office/industrial
space—which is now home to Gateway CDI, Killark Electrical Products,
Swank Motion Pictures and McLeod USA Telecommunications. They completed
St. Louis Commerce Center II in March 2002. GPX, a worldwide manufacturer
of consumer electronics, anchors the second building. Sigma-Aldrich
occupies 140,000 square feet. And Bryan Cave uses 20,000 square
feet. Steve Brown, president of Balke Brown Associates, will be
presenting this case study.
• ALEXANDRIA PLACE AND RIVER ROADS, JENNINGS, MO.
Mark Morley, president and COO at homebuilder Taylor Morley Inc.,
is building 137 attached town homes and 81 single-family homes on
44 acres that was once the North Twin Drive-in, but is now Alexandria
Place. The development will also feature five acres of commercial
redevelopment.
And, just across Halls Ferry, on the site of the old River Roads
Shopping Mall, Taylor Morley plans to develop a different 44 acres
for homes, plus 12 acres of commercial. River Roads will also boast
a two-acre park.
In addition to case study discussions on these four projects, a
set of roundtable discussions will be facilitated by recognized
experts from the St. Louis community and will focus on a wide variety
of issues related to developing and investing in the center city
and older communities in the close-in suburbs.
The symposium, which is patterned after a highly successful similar
event held by the Urban Land Institute in Los Angeles last year,
is expected to attract private developers, investors, lenders, brokers,
planners, architects, attorneys, accountants, community leaders
and local government officials.
You may make your reservation by calling RCGA’s Linda Leonard at
314/444-1138 or ULI District Council Chair Lewis Levey at 314/963-0610.
St. Louis Commerce Magazine and the RCGA are pleased to be
supporting this venture, and we congratulate Lewis Levey and ULI
colleagues on this idea.
Richard C.D. Fleming
President and Chief Executive Officer
St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association |
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