Building on its success in redeveloping its Midtown St. Louis neighborhood, and recognizing the lack of suitable hotel accommodations for visitors to its campus, St. Louis University developed Hotel Ignacio in a vacant historic building adjacent to its Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology. The former laundry-cleaner site was named one of the city’s […]
A recent announcement confirmed a niche opportunity for a Lucky’s Market urban grocer, which emphasizes fresh, local, and organic foods. Plans show the grocery store will be built at the street and serve as a pivotal anchor that will enhance the marketability of Cleveland’s Near West side as a place to live and shop. Per […]
Hampton, Virginia, Demographic and Retail Study Hampton sits at the southern end of a peninsula that stretches north through Newport News to Williamsburg. Across the wide Hampton Roads Bay to the south are Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Hampton’s retail challenge is this location. It’s the center of the region, but the bay severely restricts market […]
Development Strategies is pleased to have advised SSM Health Care and the Lawrence Group with market and feasibility analyses for the recently announced Bellevue at St. Mary’s Senior Living, which will be located near SSM’s St. Mary’s Medical Center in Richmond Heights, Missouri. Read the article from the St. Louis Business Journal here.
“A powerful sense of community rippled through a midtown art studio Thursday night. It didn’t take long to realize that an urban rebirth was well under way — and on Troost Avenue of all places. Yes, that longtime Kansas City symbol of racial division, blight and civic neglect is undergoing a transformation, and this gathering […]
A few years ago the nonprofit corporation that built hundreds of units of affordable senior housing on the JCC campus between Creve Coeur and Maryland Heights retained Development Strategies to provide a strategy to combat the property’s increasingly higher vacancy rates after years of full occupancy and a long waiting list. We found that—like other […]
The civic unrest in Ferguson has brought new light to a report Development Strategies completed in 2012 for the Office of Community Development of the St. Louis County Department of Planning. The focus of our study is on the provision of quality affordable housing and the role it can play in addressing anti-poverty efforts. The […]
Matt Wetli gave a talk on the Ohio State University campus yesterday as part of the Dresden-Columbus International Lecture Series on Sustainable Urban Development. The series is part of a 15-year-long idea exchange that seeks to enable planners to uncover creative solutions by taking in lessons from both sides of the Atlantic. Matt’s talk, called […]
We’re excited to see this mixed-use catalyst project taking shape following the Downtown Master Planning effort by Development Strategies and MKSK was completed last year. Development Strategies recommended the site for upscale apartments and an urban grocery store at the site, which are being incorporated into the development mix that will be anchored by an […]
While prominently located in Downtown Kansas City, the Commerce Tower has seen its tenant roster dwindle over the past 20 years, to the point continued operation as an office building became infeasible. Tower Properties has proposed a $30 million renovation and conversion of the 206,000 square foot, 15-story tower into a mixed-use project including luxury […]