Biggest mistake you can make on a rock climbing wall is you let go and all of the [Insert actual term here] ropes 'n stuff will catch you. Mess up with axe throwing and someone gets an axe in their head.mjbais1489 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:36 pmYeah but a lot of cities have these type of bars. So I assume people have figured it out. There was a bar in Milwaukee that had a climbing wall - that was certainly a liability.
Mind you, this sounds kind of wonky to me, but . . .
I have been to the one out in St. Charles. There are cages for each "lane" so you can't throw one into someone else's lane. The axes aren't all that sharp. They could still do some damage but they wouldn't even stick into the wood all that well. They have a line on the floor that everyone has to be behind that isn't throwing. You would have to screw up something crazy to hit anyone with one, like throwing it backwards.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Fri Apr 13, 2018 1:35 amMind you, this sounds kind of wonky to me, but . . .
You would have to tightly control the axes. The thrower and target could (should?) be in some kind of safety cage.
Hopefully this kick starts other residential developments on the landing. The view of the Arch is amazing from this angle and who doesn't like living in a older neighborhood. The Landing has tons of potential, now it just needs to be tapped.framer wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 11:33 am...And more here:
http://www.constructforstl.org/first-mu ... stination/
Amazing what an interstate will do to potential. I love river towns but even though I live in St. Louis I often can forget we are a river town since it's so cut off. I would love to live on the landing but wish it wasn't an island, the city needs a realistic master plan for the riverfront development.
The idea of removing the highway bridge in downtown could still happen but take the park over highway al the way down to either end and have a Boulevard transition into the tunnel and grow back into a highway around Park Avenue/8th Exit on the South and St. Louis avenue on the North. Make it like 141 where there are stop lights and things that make it into a street. That could help a lot without totally destroying the highway itself, if that makes any sense. It may cost a lot but we all know that sooner or later, those bridges will have to come down to make way for new ones so it is better to rid them all together now when it is cheaper than to do it in 20 or so years when it costs even more.ImprovSTL wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 11:19 amAmazing what an interstate will do to potential. I love river towns but even though I live in St. Louis I often can forget we are a river town since it's so cut off. I would love to live on the landing but wish it wasn't an island, the city needs a realistic master plan for the riverfront development.
Really happy to hear this is actually being discussed; it seems a no-brainer for the landing. Though I'm not sure how restoring Lucas Ave would cost Drury parking spots? What should become Lucas (again) is currently just an aisle. It will bisect the property, but then Drury has two parking lots - one on either side of the new street. Maybe they're talking about the four parallel parking spots near 2nd Street?dredger wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 6:33 pmBehind the paywall but interesting to note how quickly they are trying to correct for a huge missed opportunity with Arch Grounds to connect Landing. I think most would agree on the thread that a better plan then a band aid would be at a minimum to do away with raised section of freeway for a short but effective blvd starting with at an grade Wash Ave intersection as noted by a few others.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... the-latest
Forget the Arch tourists. Even lifelong St. Louisans will tell you it's a maze navigating their way to Laclede's Landing.
But a deal could be close between St. Louis and the owner of a Laclede's Landing parking lot that would add another entrance to the entertainment district. Business and property owners in the area have been somewhat cut off from downtown by Interstate 44 for decades, but the construction and street reconfiguration because of the Arch grounds revitalization have only exacerbated it.
