ST. LOUIS-After six years of planning after Busch Stadium opened, a partnership of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Baltimore-based Cordish Cos. are about to start work on the $550 million Ballpark Village. A few restaurants, led by Anheuser-Busch, have signed to anchor the $100 million first phase.
Some form of the project was promised by the partnership when the stadium was built, but economic pressures and a lost tenant held off the project. Stifel Financial Corp. had planned to anchor an office portion of the seven-city-block Village. However, the company pulled back and instead purchased its current headquarters.