Lux Living Plans Massive St. Charles Project
Date Posted: April 6, 2023
Posted In: Projects,
From St. Louis Business Journal: A St. Louis developer hopes to build an apartment complex and new hotel next to the casino in St. Charles, expanding on another developer’s pre-pandemic project that didn’t take off.
Lux Living is proposing the project on a five-acre site at at 1406 and 1410 S. Fifth St., at the intersection of Ameristar Boulevard and South Main Street. The property borders Interstate 70 and the Ameristar Casino Resort.
The project is referred to as “Heart of St. Charles” in city documents because it’s at the site of The Heart of St. Charles banquet center and wedding venue, which would be demolished under the plan. An earlier plan, from Heart of St. Charles owner Sheri Steffens, never got off the ground despite the city’s 2019 approval, the city said in documents.
Lux is applying for city approval under the name Olympus St. Charles LLC, and the proposal expands on the earlier proposal, with a larger apartment complex and a second hotel at the site, according to city filings.
The project would add an apartment complex, restaurant, bar, retail and another hotel next to the new Hampton Inn that was built as part of the previous plans, according to a city report. The apartment building would total six stories and 280 units, built above a parking garage three levels below ground.