Forum Drone: Cortex District Projects

Date Posted: July 23, 2024

Posted In: Drone, Projects,

There is a lot of activity in the vicinity of the CORTEX district, as Forum drone videographer shows in his fly around this week.

The flight begins with the conversion of the former Goodwill Industries building into a business incubator for Washington University.  The university is adding another 54,000 square feet of office and laboratory space on to the existing 120,959-square-foot Goodwill Building at 4140 Forest Park Ave. in the Cortex, for the purpose of testing and research.

The existing building has seven stories, while the addition will have four floors along with a seven-story elevator and stair exit tower, plans show. To make way for the addition, two nearby linked buildings will be demolished, according to a description of the project.

The contractor and construction manager for the project is Tarlton Corporation. HOK as architect of record and CORE10 and Arcturis are associate architects. Landscape architect is DG2 Design and Merritt Chase; David Mason and Associates is associate engineer; and KPFF is structural engineer.

The second part of videographer Kelly’s loop shows the apartments at Vande East, the  second, $125 million phase of the St. Louis Foundry project. It  features a 14-story tower with 272 apartments. Also planned are an 83,000-square-foot office building, 25,000 square feet of retail space and a 481-car parking garage.

Steve Smith, principal of New + Found, is partnering with London-based industrialist Swraj Paul on the second phase of the  Foundry development The pair invested in this Phase of the project. Greater St. Louis Inc, is also an investor. Lawrence Group is the lead architect for the project. ARCO Construction Co. is general contractor.