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Cards get approval for Ballpark Village Phase 2
- Updated: December 16, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Ballpark Village, which opened as an entertainment district just north of Busch Stadium in March 2014, will soon be expanding.
On Friday, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen approved plans for Phase 2 of the development. Those plans, which were first unveiled by the Cardinals in late October, 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.
The bill, which had been submitted to the Board of Aldermen in October, was sponsored by 7th Ward Alderman Jack Coatar and requested that a portion of new tax revenue generated solely within Ballpark Village be used to …
