Some may remember the red-brick housing towers with repetitive balconies called Cochran Gardens on Biddle Street in Old North St. Louis. Built in 1953, Cochran Gardens was the city’s third federally-funded housing project built by the St. Louis Housing Authority.

Cochran Gardens was also the last of the city’s public housing towers to come down. In 2003, it was redeveloped into a mixed-income neighborhood called Cambridge Heights, using a federal grant.

Construction is underway on the $20.4 million Senior Living at Cambridge Heights facility at 728 Biddle Street in St. Louis. KAI Design & Build is the architect, general contractor and mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineer on the 89,900-square-foot development. With an anticipated January 2011 completion date, Senior Living at Cambridge Heights will feature 117 one- and two-bedroom apartments designed for older adults. Financing for the three-story building was secured through the Missouri Housing Development Commission, St.