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Historical December 1979 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
I, like many of you, watch Pantheon’s redevelopment of DeBaliviere Place almost on a daily basis. As Bi-State takes me down DeBaliviere and Pershing on my way to work, I am eager to discover what project has been started or completed. or to guess toward what target the various activities are headed. My curiosity, or just plain impatience, finally steered me to Pantheon’s office and I found myself talking with Mary Stuart who is Pantheon’s public relations spokesperson.
COHEN: Mary, I’d like to know what the schedule of development is for DeBaliviere Place. Can you tell me what the plan for residential construction is?
STUART: The Wintergarden, which used to be called the Ranelegh-Wilmar. has 112 units of section 8 (rent subsidy) housing for the elderly. Applications are being taken now for occupancy in November.
On Pershing between Clara and Belt we now have 242 apartments under construction. The first occupancy of these should be in April of 1980. There is no definite plan for Pershing east of Belt as of now.
On Waterman, we’ve completed all the condominiums between Clara and Belt. No construction has started west of Clara. These will probably be condos but there is no firm schedule.
Kingsbury between DeBaliviere and Clara will be all rental units. This also includes one building at DeBaliviere and Waterman. The area the building that was recently demolished occupied will be used for parking. Construction should begin in the spring on this building and those east of DeBaliviere on Kingsbury.
Kingsbury Square, which is the new homes west of DeBaliviere, will be built about three units ahead of sales. Right now, all that are built have been sold and most are occupied.
COHEN: Are there any firm plans for commercial development?
STUART: Well, the building Pantheon and Central West End S & L are in will have a new tenant soon. Office space for Pitzman & Company, a surveying firm owned by a resident of
Kingsbury Square, is under construction. Ed Gordon, owner of Able Key, has begun work on a 6,000 square foot hardware store next to this present location on DeBaliviere. This should be finished around April, 1980. Besides a general line of hardware, he plans to carry items especially suited to homes in this area.
Next spring, work will begin on the building located at 5573.89 Pershing. No space has been rented there yet.
Leon Strauss (Pantheon’s President) is negotiating with Schnuck’s in an attempt to bring a new supermarket to the old Bettendorf store on DeBaliviere, but we haven’t gotten a committment from them as of now. Also, we have no firm plans to announce for the commercial space along DeBaliviere between Waterman and Pershing.
COHEN: From Pantheon’s perspective, has the project been successful?
STUART: Absolutely. DeBaliviere Place is well ahead of schedule. We’ve brought a lot of new people into the city. We anticipated problems in renting or selling when other properties on the block were still boarded up but this never happened. While the mortgage money shortage and high interest rates have slowed sales, we still have many qualified buyers looking and our rental units have done very well. Our tenants seem well pleased.
COHEN: I’ve heard talk about a swimming pool and tennis courts to be built in the area. If that’s true, where will this be located.
STUART: We will build a 30′ × 50′ pool and two lighted tennis courts on the north side of Pershing between Clara and Belt.
COHEN: Can residents of Skinker-DeBaliviere use these facilities?
STUART: No. Membership will be limited to residents of DeBaliviere Place.
COHEN: Do you see any role for the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council in DeBaliviere Place.
STUART: We have formed the DeBaliviere Place Association.
Leon Strauss, as developer, is now President of our neighborhood association: While we would certainly cooperate with the Council regarding common problems. I think any official relationship would be premature now. Our residents are new to the area and, I think, still cultivating a sense of neighborhood. Actually the association has not started holding regular meetings yet. But I can see that in the future we could meld, in some way, into the larger area as a whole.
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Expansion and new exterior under construction by Able Lock and Service Co. for hardware store on DeBaliviere. Original drawing signed “yager.” The Paper, December 1979, page 4.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1979.
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