Construction to begin on Phase II of Ballpark Village

Ballpark Village is ready for expansion.

A groundbreaking ceremony for its second phase, a $260 million project that will include luxury apartments and office space, was held today by the St. Louis Cardinals and its development partner, The Cordish Companies. The second phase will complete a “full build-out” of Clark Street that will change the look of downtown St. Louis’ skyline.

Phase II will usher in a new street dubbed Cardinal Way, which will run from 8th Street to Broadway. On that street’s east side will be a 29-story luxury residential tower, One Cardinal Way. Its ground floor will house 10,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space.

On the west side of Cardinal Way will be a 10-story Class-A office building (the first to be built downtown since 1989), anchored by accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and a hotel, Live! by Loews. A three-story glass shopping pavilion will connect everything.

In a press release, St. Louis Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III said this second phase is seven times larger than Ballpark Village’s first phase, which opened in 2014. “By developing new housing, Class-A office space, an upscale hotel, and high-quality street-level retail, we are truly putting the ‘village’ into Ballpark Village,” he said.

Phase II is slated to begin opening in 2019 and to be completed by 2020. (See more renderings below.)

“This is a tremendous project that will bring hundreds of new residents and over a thousand new jobs to our city,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said in a release.

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