Apartments Planned For Old Shriners and CID Buildings in CWE
Date Posted: November 30, 2016
Posted In: Projects,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Washington University is planning a multimillion-dollar apartment conversion of St. Louis’ first Shriners Hospital and the nearby vacant Central Institute for the Deaf.
Both buildings are in the Central West End, at the southern edge of the Washington University and BJC HealthCare medical campus.
Work on the 189 apartments might begin nearly next year, said Mary Campbell, the university’s associate vice chancellor for real estate. She said Tuesday the market-rate units, to be owned by a for-profit university affiliate, could be ready for tenants in mid-2018.
The Shriners Hospital building, at 700 South Euclid Avenue, opened in 1924 to care for kids with polio. Offices that occupy part of the former hospital will be moved to other buildings nearby, including the nearly completed Mid Campus Center at 4570 Children’s Place. The CID building, at 4575 Clayton Avenue, has been vacant more than a decade, Campbell said.
Both buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The listings, obtained by the university, qualify the renovation project for historic preservation tax credits. City building permit applications filed Nov. 23 estimate a $4.6 million cost for the CID building and $6.9 million for the Shriners portion of the project.