Plans are in the works for a 67-unit apartment building in Downtown West.

Screaming Eagle Development LLC, led by Matt Masiel of Prime Building and Construction, plans to buy the warehouse and headquarters building of national tire distributor Tire Mart Inc., which distributes Pit Bull Tires.

The building, at 1815 Locust Street, would be acquired for $3.2 million and undergo a $21.5 million conversion into apartments, according to a report from a St. Louis economic development office.

The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority recommended five years of 90 percent tax abatement for the project followed by another five years of 70 percent tax abatement.

Screaming Eagle is the developer behind plans to rehab the vacant Lyon School in the Patch neighborhood into 42 apartments and another project in University City to rehab the Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School as 47 apartments.

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