Historical Fall 2006 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Neighbors Amy and Amrit Gill have done a great deal of rehab, first in our neighborhood and then on a larger scale at the Coronado and the Moolah Temple. Their good work continues: they are now completing the renovation of the old Bardenheier Winery located at Skinker and Olive.
The winery consisted of several buildings, and the Gills have attempted to maintain many of the original features, including skylights.
The newly named Loop Lofts have 104 one and two bedroom units.
They have a genuine loft feel and are light and bright.
A few of the units have 30 foot ceilings and some are 1600 square feet. Given the establishment of Washington University’s north campus, it is not surprising that the school looked to these new loft-like units to accommodate an overflow crew of undergraduates. Juniors and seniors will occupy 85 apartments.
The university has signed a two year agreement with the Gills’ company.
The Gills plan on having a restaurant in one of the buildings.
Also very involved with rehab efforts taking place in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood, they have acquired 63 buildings there, both residences and businesses on Manchester. Amrit wants to make that street like it once was.
They are using ideas from the Delmar Committee as guideposts.
They are drafting a redevelopment plan.
They restored the building that the hot new restaurant, Five, is in and there are two other new restaurants close by.
They are also finishing two houses on Oakland east of Kingshighway now. Manchester, or the entire neighborhood, depending on who’s talking, is now the Grove. Our former alderman and neighbor, Dan McGuire, is working there for them. Amy thinks of the Grove as resembling Skinker DeBaliviere 20 years ago. Hopefully, this ambitious and gutsy couple will be able to replicate Skinker DeBaliviere’s move toward stability and diversity.
The Gills have not forsaken our neighborhood.
They hope to construct a house on 57xx Pershing and are also interested in doing accessible housing here. Certainly the new LoopLofts are wonderful harbingers of what they might be able to do here.
Original photograph caption
Amy Gill with architects.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Fall 2006.
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