Butler Brothers Building to Undergo Massive Redevelopment
Date Posted: May 27, 2021
Posted In: Projects,
From CityScene STL: One of Downtown’s largest vacant buildings will soon undergo a thorough and massive redevelopment that could spur more development in Downtown West if successful.
After the news got out that Development Services Group, a company based in Memphis Tennessee, acquired the building that takes up a whole block in Downtown West, speculation began about what we could see here. Some imagined a hotel-apartment combo due to the building’s sheer size.
Now we know the scope thanks to plans submitted to the SLDC Planroom by Paric: 384 apartments, two retail spaces (totaling 15,000sf of retail space), and 406 parking spaces. The breakdown of the apartments is currently set at 24 studio units, 295 one bedroom units, and 65 two bedroom units.
The heavy reliance on one bedroom units has become more common in apartment developments in St. Louis recently with one developer I know telling me that those units tend to fill up the fastest.
Plans call for the building’s atrium to be expanded, which allows for a central courtyard space, allows for apartments, and cuts down on what would instead be dead space. Surrounding this interior courtyard, floor plans show a series of amenities including an amenity lounge, fitness center, juice bar, bike storage, dog spa, game room, and screen room. Parking would surround the amenity spaces and take up the remainder of the second floor.
On the first floor, the retail spaces will front 18th Street with one space including some frontage along Olive Street. The main entrance to the building will also be along 18th Street. Additionally, the first floor will include a coworking space, package room, mail room, and what’s assume to be building management and leasing offices as well as additional parking spaces. The western half of the basement will include parking.