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Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council Brandon Sterling has resigned his position as Executive Director of the SDCC effective February 29th. Brandon served as the Executive Director for four years and will be pursuing other career opportunities.
We thank Brandon for his four years of service.
If you know of anyone interested in the filling the position, please contact the SDCC at 314.862.5122 DeBaliviere Developments Pearl companies has proposed a redevelopment project on DeBaliviere Avenue to include apartments and retail space where the current strip mall exists between Waterman and Forest Park. Pearl has offered a verbal commitment to signing a community benefits agreement.
This project is in the boundaries of the Delmar-DeBaliviere Transit Oriented Plan and the proposed Form-Based District (as well as the CWE Historic District) so it has been undergoing the process of a neighborhood-based development review. For those unfamiliar, neighborhood development reviews allow residents, businesses and property owners to familiarize themselves and offer input into proposed physical development projects to gauge their impact on quality of life, the local economy and compliance with adopted neighborhood planning documents.
We typically engage neighboring communities like West End and DeBaliviere Place when a project is on a shared neighborhood border.
These reviews are led by the Community Development, Historic District Review, and Commercial Districts committees.
After review, committees typically issue a shared statement to the developer and the City of St. Louis indicating support or opposition to the project, citing specific details. Revival STL is proposing a mixed-used apartment building, tentatively called the “Hudson” on the site of the former St. Louis Italian Restaurant at Pershing and DeBaliviere.
This project will also go through a neighborhood-based development review.
This project is evidence that the Pearl project is already serving as a catalyst to revitalize underutilized sites along the commercial corridor. Delmar Developments Local developer GreenStreet has expressed interest in the site of the former Church’s Chicken Lot. Conversations are preliminary, but they proposed a mixed-used, multi-story building.
This project will also go through a neighborhood-based development review. Committee Chairs Rachelle L’Ecuyer was recently appointed as the chair of the Commercial Districts Committee by SDCC Board President, Molly Rater.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February–March 2020.
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