The 17-story Chemical Building, at 777 Olive Street, was sold to Campo Architects for $5 million. This is the same building where Kessler Mroz Jewelry resides, on the ground floor. Campo is known to take buildings like the Chemical Building and build a mix of apartments and hotel rooms on the upper floors and retail …
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Gunfire was heard echoing through Downtown St. Louis on a Sunday afternoon (November 21st) while sitting at the traffic light at Pine Street and N. Broadway, by One Metropolitan Square, the tallest building in St. Louis. Hearing shots ring out in the City of St. Louis is not uncommon but it is still an eye …
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* A look at the Gateway Arch Up-Close and Far Away The St. Louis Gateway Arch can be viewed from everywhere in St. Louis and it has been a landmark for directions since it was built in 1965. The Gateway Arch is 630 feet, which is 63 stories, 192 meters, or 7,560 inches tall, making …
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Ballpark Village Phase III was proposed recently and it consists of three new high rise towers in three lots currently being used for parking lots in Downtown St. Louis. The three mixed-use developments will put the finishing touch on Ballpark Village. With hope, and a lot of work, these towers should be up sometime around …
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Broadway Tower at 100 N. Broadway at Chestnut Street is under construction with an estimated cost of 7 million on the permit.. The building has 21 floors and was built 1977. It is located across the Street from the Old Courthouse. INVOLVED IN PROJECT: LARSON | HERMANN | PARIC |Trivers See building permits for St. …
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Railway Exchange Building with signage at front entrance in Downtown St. Louis, MO in November 2021. Credit Craig Currie
Reign Restaurant was permanently closed and is now completely boarded up along Washington Avenue in Downtown St. Louis. Before it closed, a few windows were already boarded and now the entire length of the restaurant that runs along Washington Avenue has plywood on all of the windows. City authorities closed it down due to multiple …
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This year’s Winterfest 2021 is a Christmas celebration over a month long that’s currently going on now in Kiener Plaza in Downtown St. Louis. There is an ice rink, a mobile restaurant, and Christmas lights that cover the entire plaza. There are heated Igloos to rent enabling guests to celebrate the Holidays in style with …
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Downtown St. Louis has its quiet times and this is one of them. This is around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, November, 20, 2021.
The inaugural Winterfest 5K presented by Caleres and produced in partnership with Big River Running started at Kiener Plaza and ended there as well. The proceeds benefited the Gateway Arch Park Foundation. The Winterfest 5K started at 7:30 a.m. at Kiener Plaza and had streets blocked off for the runners. Most of the running was …
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