BJC Health - South Campus
The south campus project includes a 10-story, 340,000 square-foot building housing a new Trauma level I emergency and urgent care department at street level. A cafeteria will be located on the second level and a heliport on the roof. The upper floors will contain clinical research labs. A 336,000 square-foot, 700-car replacement parking garage will be connected to the buildings north side. An elevated pdestrian walk-way will connect the garage to St. Louis Childrens Hospital. [More]

BJC Health - Taylor Avenue
This new office building on Taylor Avenue was a $6.2 million renovation of an 80,000-square-foot warehouse formerly occupied by Graybar Electric into offices for numerous BJC departments. Tenants include a wellness and fitness center and a television studio. [More]

Cardinal Ritter High School
Groundbreaking for the new Cardinal Ritter High School was held on June 19, 2001 at the school's new site at Spring Ave. and Delmar in Grand Center. Its current location at 5421 Thekla Ave. in Walnut Park in a 50-year old building, which lacks up-to-date academic and physical education facilities is outdated for the highly acclaimed Catholic school. [More]

Central Institute for the Deaf
The Central Institute for the Deaf recently added a 66,600-square-foot research and administrative building at 4560 Clayton Avenue in the Central West End. The building was completed in January 2001. This three-level building houses laboratories for conducting research that could lead to new treatments to prevent and treat hearing loss in children and adults. The Central Institute for the Deaf raised funds for the building through a capital campaign and a bond issue. Mackey Mitchell Associates was the architect for this $16.4 million building that marked the second phase of a $32 million renovation of the institute's campus that started in October 1998. The first phase of the massive renovation and construction project was completion of the new school building, which opened in 2000. The last step in the project will involve renovating the center's 70-year old building at 818 South Euclid Avenue. [More]

Chase and Park Plaza Hotels
The Chase and Park Plaza hotels, which date to 1922 and 1929 respectively, merged in 1956. Overlooking Forest Park, the hotels and their connecting buildings were featured in many architectural journals throughout their previous existence for their unique designs. Celebrities like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Bennett, stayed or performed there during their heyday. [More]

Childgarden Child Care Center
Childgarden Child Development Center provides comprehensive early childhood development services and early intervention services to children with special needs and their families. The facility is a joint venture between the Easter Seals Society of Missouri and The St. Louis Society of Retarded Citizens. Oculus, Inc. was involved early on providng pro-bono services involving needs assessment, collecting and analyzing data and assisting in establishing the mission of the facility. The center, completed in February 2001, is designed for the needs of children and parents including unique color schemes for easy room identification, a large interior play area as well as a parents' lounge for conferences with the staff and reference materials on child development. [More]

Continental Building
Rehabilitation on the Continental Building at Grand and Olive got underway in 2001, with a groundbreaking ceremony that took place on June 18th. Headed by the Owen Development Corporation, the $28 million rehabilitation project will include residential, office, and commercial space. The financial package is complex, with a number of private and public sources. [More]

Forest Park Hotel
The Forest Park Hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, will be redeveloped with apartments, retail shops and a restaurant, after being dormant for eleven years. Architect Preston J. Bradshaw (Chase Hotel) designed the hotel in 1923, followed by architect George D. Barnett, Jr's addition in 1926. [More]

Forum for Contemporary Arts
The new Forum for Contemporary Art will sit at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Spring Avenue, next to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Building. The new 26,000-square-foot building will have street presence, increased exhibition space, performance space, a café and other amenities. Constructed mostly of concrete, the new Forum will sit two stories high and will feature a dramatic swooping curved west wall that mirrors the arc of adjacent Spring Avenue. [More]

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
One of the newest additions to the Grand Center area is the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, at Washington and Spring Streets. The concrete building, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, will hold the private art collection of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Pulitzer's art collection, which includes works by Picasso, Miro, Rodin, Modigliani, Warhol, and Monet, as well as his books and periodicals. [More]

Saint Louis Children's Hospital
The St. Louis Children's Hospital underwent the expansion and renovation program covering a total of 160,000 floor space including a four-story vertical expansion for physician offices, surgical services, ambulatory care, intensive care and cancer services and renovations of the emergency department, surgery suites and several clinics and diagnostic facilities. The project also included a seismic upgrade of the low-rise portion of the existing facility. [More]

Saint Louis University Cook Hall
Saint Louis University’s newest addition is Cook Hall, a four-level 50,000 square-foot classrooms and auditorium building built for their business school. It was completed in July of 2000 at a cost of $15 million. [More]

Saint Louis University Rec Area
One of the most recent additions to the former Laclede Town site has been St. Louis University's Billiken Sports Complex, a recreational area built on 14.5 acres of the former Laclede Town site. The property extends eastward from SLU's Billiken Sports Center to Compton Avenue. [More]

Schlafly Library & Garage
The Argyle Site is a joint venture between the Treasurer's Office and the St. Louis Public Library. The three-level building, designed by Trivers and Associates, will house the new Schlafly branch of the public library, 5,000 square feet of retail space and a 430 space parking garage. [More]