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Exterior Walls Going Up on Wash U's Delmar Loop Project

Washington University is in the middle of an $80 million development project in the Delmar Loop.

Brick is going up on the exterior walls of Washington University's $80 million Delmar Loop project.

TheΒ 4.4-acre residential and retail development project includes 22,000 square feet of new retail space. Anchoring the space will be aΒ Global Foods Grocery Store.Β 

In all, the development will include five new buildings, with apartments for about 600 undergraduate students and 22,000 square feet of new retail space. The mixed-use development, to be built on existing university-owned property, will be between Delmar and Enright to the north and flanked by Westgate and Eastgate avenues.

Construction is expected to be complete in 2014.Β 

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