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Cards announce Phase 2 Ballpark Village plans
- Updated: October 25, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Ballpark Village, which opened as an entertainment district just north of Busch Stadium in March 2014, will soon be expanding.
On Tuesday, the Cardinals unveiled plans for Phase 2 of the development. Those plans include the addition of a residential apartment tower, a Class A office building and additional retail/entertainment spaces to connect the new structures to the one already in place. Total construction costs are estimated at $220 million.
“It really takes us to the point where that vision of a neighborhood master plan accompanying what we’ve done with the ballpark is really going to come together with this phase,” said Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III.
Construction on Phase 2 is expected to begin around the end of the 2017 baseball season and will take approximately 18 months to complete, DeWitt said. In the meantime, the Cardinals are awaiting the passage of legislation that will help finance the project.
A bill was to be filed with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen on Tuesday seeking approval from the city to amend the existing development agreement that enabled the first wave of Ballpark Village construction. The bill, which is being sponsored by 7th Ward Alderman Jack Coatar, requests that a portion of new tax revenue …
