St. Louis Neighborhood Development Blog
A Catalog of St. Louis developments, large and small
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Unofficially speaking, it’s Forest Park Southeast/Grove week here at STLNABEDEV. We have yet another Grove-area (south of Manchester) rehab for you.
This one, a two-family, is located at 4239-41 Norfolk. The owner, Preservation Group LLC was issued a $140,000 interior alterations permit on March 7, 2013.
Below is a Geo St. Louis photograph of the structure:
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A commercial building located at 4180 Manchester in the Grove (AKA Forest Park Southeast) may soon see an $80,000 rehab into a coffee shop named Rise (Facebook page linked here).
Below is a photograph of the building obtained from Geo St. Louis:
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At one point an eight-family building, 4216 Gibson in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood may soon see a $350,000 rehab into a four-family, according to city building permit records. The contractor on the rehab is UIC, which built the new home which now sits to the west of 4216 Gibson.
Below is a Geo St. Louis photograph of the structure:
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The small single family home at 420 Fassen in the Carondelet neighborhood (located near the popular Iron Barley restaurant) will soon receive an $80,000 makeover from Habitat for Humanity St. Louis.
Below is a (bad) capture of the building from Google Streetview:
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Garcia Properties is tackling a rehab of a vacant mixed use corner building located at 3731 McDonald in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. The permit amount is $60,000.
Below is a Google Streetview capture of the building:
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The mixed use building at 4831-37 Fountain Avenue may not be long for this world without immediate stabilization.
The building, which sits on the northeast corner of the lovely, oblong Fountain Park, beautifully envelops the gentle curve of its host street in a way we rarely see today. This is especially true since so many commercial buildings on complex parcels, like triangular wedges and traffic circles, have been demolished for much smaller, automobile-oriented buildings with parking lots.
It has been nearly six years since St. Louis blogger Toby Weiss has profiled this elegant building, and even then the building looked worse for the wear. Today, the building it at a crisis point and needs immediate investment to patch holes in its roof and repair the beautiful, though crumbling, storefront.
Below is a 2007 image from Toby Weiss’s BELT blog:
While it is hard to clearly make out the subsequent deterioration in this 2013 photograph obtained from the nextSTL Twitter account, nevertheless, conditions have indeed worsened.
So, readers, if you know of any angel investors willing to approach the owner of this property—Titsworth Properties, LLC according to Geo St. Louis—and make an offer on it, please do so. This is not to say the building is for sale, or even that the current owner is willing to fix the property up, but it’s worth a shot to try to save one of St. Louis’s most unique commercial properties, isn’t it?
Consider:
- The building is in a National Register of Historic Places district (Aubert Place-Fountain Park), which makes it eligible for federal and state historic tax credits.
- The building is located merely three blocks north of the bustling Central West End.
Click here for a map of the area.
Titsworth LLC’s Registered Agent is Mitchell D. Jacobs. His contact information is below.
Mitchell D. Jacobs
225 S. Meramec Ave., Ste. 1021T
Clayton, MO 63105
Telephone: (314) 726-6030 -
In the area of Forest Park Southeast lesser known to nighttime revelers on Manchester sits a freshly rehabbed former two-family home at 4342 Hunt. Grove Properties completed the rehab earlier this year. Per city permit records, the rehab cost $20,000. The now-single family home is available at the time of this writing.
Below is a photograph of the building after rehab, courtesy of Grove Properties:
And the before shot, from Google Streetview:
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A mixed use building located at 2648 Cherokee Street (in the Gravois Park neighborhood) may soon see a substantial rehab—valued at $450,000 per a city building permit application—into residential and commercial space. The owner is shown to be 2648 Cherokee Properties, LLC. Note that the building permit has not yet been issued.
Below is a recent Geo St. Louis photograph of the structure that is to be rehabbed:
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A two-family home located at 4122 Botanical in the Shaw neighborhood is currently being rehabbed into a single family at a cost of $52,000, according to city building permits.
Below is a recent photograph of the structure obtained from Geo St. Louis:
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A two-family home at 3022 Salena in Benton Park may soon undergo a $150,000 rehab into two fee simple townhouses. The owner is Renovations Unlimited, LLC.
Below is a Geo St. Louis photograph dating to January 2013:
