The Business Journal is reporting that the 292,000 square foot Globe Drug Warehouse is now listed for sale at $9.6 million.



Perhaps we'll be hearing about a new housing or office development in the near future...

I immediately wonder what kind of development would go there being directly across the street from the fire dept. depot.

Pet supplies store, emphasis on dalmations. Chili parlor, five alarm only. Candle shop. Fireplace store. Welding gear store. Bottled water supplier. Brass fixtures salon.

It's an odd building because the upper floors are literally just a few feet from Highway 40!

Ain't no further from 40 than the Sheraton!

It's now being nominated for the National Register:



http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/pla ... ohnson.pdf

Former Columbia Transfer Building/Endicott Johnson Shoe Distribution plant. Very strange inside. The guys that run Globe Drug use the space as storage. There are totally random palates of stuff like 700 pounds of garlic powder and boxes of Christmas cards from 1974............oh, and homeless people sleeping on the interior stairways. I think that with Cupples directly east, Spruce Street in the vicinity could (potentially) become a destination.

Also a bunch of old police cars in the garage.

That whole area is starting to pick up with the Ballpark Lofts and the Cupples lofts. This would be a wonderful addition, as it would tie that area all the way to Tucker. Major problem with that zone, however, are the fly-over exit/entrance ramps to 40 that end up on 9th and 10th streets. Image what could happen in the city tore those ramps down and relocated them to the South side of 40, buying some of the giant amount of surface parking to the South. A tall residential tower on that new open block on Clark between 10th and 9th would cause this area to explode. Plus the tower would have PRIME views of Busch. Too bad I don't have a degree yet, add that to some capital and I think that's a fairly solid plan!

Did anyone notice in the comments that they said the buildings were built in 1519 and 1923-24? I'm guessing a typo, probably should have been 1915. You would think they would catch a fairly important error, since its very relative to getting their designation.

Anybody have any information on this building lately? Its status currently is an eyesore, made worse by its visibility from I-64 (one of many decrepit buildings along the I-64 corridor that give first-time visitors or travelers a bad first impression).

It seems in good enough shape that a rehab could make it fit in with its surroundings. There's not a lot of retail in the immediate area, and a ground floor restaurant/retail could serve the Young federal building, the police station, City Hall, and the fire department. Plus, it's close enough to Busch and Scottrade to get game day business and as a convenience for lodgers at the Sheraton.

It seems like part of the building is being used for indoor parking, but I can't imagine why there hasn't been more interest in developing this area. I actually think this might be a good location for another smaller grocery store. People could walk over and shop there after work and bring dinner home, or Cardinals fans could pick up tailgating supplies. I don't know how many thousands of employees work within a two-block (or even just one block) radius of this site, but it's got to be many thousands.

I don't know how "on the record" the conversation was, nor was it said as anything other than a possibility, so I can't offer any real information or details.

But it was indicated to me recently that there are talks about potential re-uses of the building, including the possibility of some retail that would make sense in a lot of ways.

So I don't think anything is imminent, but hopefully something moves forward with it in the near-future.

jsbru wrote:Anybody have any information on this building lately? Its status currently is an eyesore, made worse by its visibility from I-64 (one of many decrepit buildings along the I-64 corridor that give first-time visitors or travelers a bad first impression).

It seems in good enough shape that a rehab could make it fit in with its surroundings. There's not a lot of retail in the immediate area, and a ground floor restaurant/retail could serve the Young federal building, the police station, City Hall, and the fire department. Plus, it's close enough to Busch and Scottrade to get game day business and as a convenience for lodgers at the Sheraton.

It seems like part of the building is being used for indoor parking, but I can't imagine why there hasn't been more interest in developing this area. I actually think this might be a good location for another smaller grocery store. People could walk over and shop there after work and bring dinner home, or Cardinals fans could pick up tailgating supplies. I don't know how many thousands of employees work within a two-block (or even just one block) radius of this site, but it's got to be many thousands.

We certainly have differing ideas of what's an eyesore. Let me guess, you want this building torn down too?

moorlander wrote:

jsbru wrote:Anybody have any information on this building lately? Its status currently is an eyesore, made worse by its visibility from I-64 (one of many decrepit buildings along the I-64 corridor that give first-time visitors or travelers a bad first impression).

It seems in good enough shape that a rehab could make it fit in with its surroundings. There's not a lot of retail in the immediate area, and a ground floor restaurant/retail could serve the Young federal building, the police station, City Hall, and the fire department. Plus, it's close enough to Busch and Scottrade to get game day business and as a convenience for lodgers at the Sheraton.

It seems like part of the building is being used for indoor parking, but I can't imagine why there hasn't been more interest in developing this area. I actually think this might be a good location for another smaller grocery store. People could walk over and shop there after work and bring dinner home, or Cardinals fans could pick up tailgating supplies. I don't know how many thousands of employees work within a two-block (or even just one block) radius of this site, but it's got to be many thousands.

We certainly have differing ideas of what's an eyesore. Let me guess, you want this building torn down too?

Well, given that I just spent 80% of my post talking about ideas for rehabbing it, you would be guessing wrong.

Broken/bricked-up windows, rusting steel, weeds growing on the roof, etc. I'm not sure what else you need to put it over the top as far as "eyesore" goes. That doesn't mean it can't be turned into something nice. The masonry still looks good. I would have thought this one would have been rehabbed by now. This and the Alverne building are two big buildings that seem salvageable, but there doesn't really seem to be any plans for one way or another. I walk past this building nearly every day and hadn't heard any plans at all, so I was just curious why this one had been forgotten/overlooked.