Tag: Parking Garages
St. Louis Centre, Eviscerated
I decided to use the new St. Louis Centre Memorial Parking Garage last Friday. That was a big mistake. I had already seen the new exterior, but I wanted the opportunity to see the new parking garage built in the floors of the old mall. I must say, it is the most open, light-filled parking…
Cupples Warehouse #7
Update: Demolished before renovation could occur. There has been a lot of disinformation, and outright lies being spread about the condition of Cupples Warehouse #7. Perhaps the most infuriating disinformation is coming from KMOV, which is blindly reporting that a renovation of the building could cost $60 million. The report offers no source for that…
Downtown, From Above in the Early 20th Century
Can you identify which buildings are still standing, and which ones aren’t? All photos from “This is Our St. Louis” by Harry M. Hagen.
Street Level Renovations of the Former St. Louis Centre
Update: New commentary written in October of 2024. The renovation of the old St. Louis Centre into ground level retail turned out to be a great success, with numerous businesses moving in. The parking garage above, in the old mall space, can still be renovated into occupied leasable space in the future. I like the…
Skybridge Coming Down
They’re tearing down the bridge over Washington Avenue, and as one poster on the Post-Dispatch comment section said (I know, an intelligent comment from that forum?), you could probably put the officials’ remarks today next to the ones said 25 years ago, and they’d be nearly identical. BS like this will transform downtown, the best…
Apartment Buildings, Southwest, Washington, DC
After the clearance of thousands of rowhouses and viable corner businesses, the modernists came in and built their apartment towers in the their place. Erasing the grid and creating superblocks, the oldest portion of DC, the waterfront of Southwest, began to transform into a whole other world. Update: As of Summer of 2020, I dislike…
Interior Courtyard of Syndicate Trust Building
The Syndicate Trust, now completely renovated into condos on the upper floors and apartments on the lower floors, boasts two courtyards that bring light into the interior of the building. Sadly, the Century Building, the Syndicate’s conjoined neighbor, could have easily been renovated along with its taller blockmate. But that was not to be, and…
Centene Project Moves Forward–in Clayton
Update: The project is now complete. Also, foot traffic is far from “dead” along that stretch with the opening of the incredibly successful Pastaria and Niche restaurants. The negotiations with the City of St. Louis for Centene to move to Ballpark Village were probably a bluff to gain concessions from Clayton all along. Did we…