Tuxedo Park Leasing

Well, the crew has pulled off the stucco and revealed the brick front and windows.  Although it is not very nice at the moment, we are beginning to see it’s potential.  As my architect says, “It’s handsome!”.  The best part is it will look like two different buildings but with a consistent feel.  The arched windows and archways of the East building are beautiful.  One archway will have to be reconstructed and we discovered a huge crack in the corner, but all can be fixed.

They are currently painting the window frames and will replace the broken ones windows.  Now that the natural light is coming in on the second floor, it is amazing!  It makes a huge difference.  After this, we wait and hope that we get approval to move forward.  Keep your fingers crossed!

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We received our permit yesterday.  Thanks to everyone in St. Louis City building permit offices who worked to make this happen so quickly.  Although it is now very noisy at our office, the skin is coming off and what is underneath is what we hoped to see.  Here are a few pictures so far!

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Last week we approved having the stucco and concrete removed from the front of the building.  Why you ask?  We are applying for historical tax credits with the State of Missouri and they need to see the original front of our building.   After weeks of searching for pictures, it was decided that the only way to proceed was to remove the current front of the building.

With an architect and an environmental/redeveloper involved, we hoped to smoothly glide through this process.  Unfortunately, today the Building Inspector came by and issued a stop work order due to a building permit not being obtained.  I am reassured that this will be taken care of, but know this is only the beginnings of a long road to redoing our building into a magnificent property.

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