ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals and The Cordish Cos. have broken ground on the $260 million second phase of Ballpark Village. The 700,000-square-foot mixed-use expansion project will complete a full build-out of Clark Street.
New buildings will be constructed on both the east and west sides of the existing Phase I development. A new street, running from 8th to Broadway streets, will be called Cardinal Way. On the east end of Cardinal Way will be a 29-story luxury residential tower called One Cardinal Way. On the west end will be a Class A office building, anchored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a convention hotel, Live! by Loews-St. Louis. In addition, a three-story retail pavilion just north of the existing Busch II Infield and event plaza will connect everything together. This glass pavilion will be anchored by a 31,000-square-foot Onelife Fitness.
Designed by Hord Coplan Macht, the 29-story One Cardinal Way will feature 297 apartment units and 10,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space on the first floor. The building will also feature 25,000 square feet of amenity space, including an infinity edge pool, demonstration kitchen, club room, entertainment room, fitness center and conference room.
Designed jointly by HKS Architects, HCM and Tao & Lee, the new office building will be the first new construction office building constructed in downtown St. Louis since Metropolitan Square in 1989, according to Cordish Cos. The 10-story building will feature street-level retail, amenities and more than 500 parking spaces.
The expansion project is slated to begin opening in 2019 and be completed by 2020.
The first phase of Ballpark Village opened in 2014, creating more than 1,000 construction jobs and 1,700 new permanent jobs. The second phase is expected to create 1,500 construction jobs and more than 1,000 new permanent jobs, according to Cordish Cos.