Columbus Square

COLUMBUS SQUARE /
CAMBRIDGE HEIGHTS

Located immediately behind the Edward Jones Dome and America’s Center and just a couple of blocks from the Washington Avenue, Columbus Square offers a variety of modern housing stock on tree-lined streets that create an almost suburban feel in the heart of the city.


Like Carr Square to the west, Columbus Square was originally settled in the 1800s, by successive waves of immigrants, many of whom lived here in crowded tenement homes and later, in early versions of public housing. Over time, truck terminals and factories replaced many of these tenements and dramatically altered the character of the neighborhood.
However, the area’s close proximity to the CBD and the riverfront inevitably attracted residential development back into the district. In the 1980s, over 400 units of single family homes, town homes and garden apartments were built here and re-established Columbus Square as a viable residential community in the center of the city. Today, the nearly completed Cambridge Heights development has brought a fresh inventory of rental and for sale homes that complement the newly renovated apartments in the historic Neighborhood Gardens.

The $600 million Mississippi River Bridge (now under construction), as well as proposed development of the Bottle District and the nearby north riverfront promise of an even brighter future with the prospects of additional residential and commercial development and new neighbourhood amenities on the horizon.