Grand Center is working with Labyrinth Technology to bring the same smart-street lighting to the neighborhood as is being installed Downtown. There will also be one of those smart kiosk things installed in Strauss Park this Summer.
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That's great but i hope people realize all it is right now is just a colorful light pole and thats it. the City needs to put out a RPF for companies to submit software ideas on how to use the smart tech that comes with the new light stripes. Its great that gov/CIDs/Non profits are funding the hardware because nobody in the industry wants to touch it- its too expensive.framer wrote: ↑Mar 31, 2020Grand Center is working with Labyrinth Technology to bring the same smart-street lighting to the neighborhood as is being installed Downtown. There will also be one of those smart kiosk things installed in Strauss Park this Summer.
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Looks like some drilling going on in the Powell parking lot. Anybody got a scoop?![]()
I do know that multiple projects are in the works for the area. I think this is one of them. They’re all supposed to be residential focused but we will see exactly. As for a timeline when we will see something, maybe later this summer or early this fall.
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Hoping for some retail element on the corner facing Grand
"Park Like" is now open for viewing from sunrise to sunset:
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https://pulitzerarts.org/exhibition/par ... land-arts/
Ah yes... the “drone + dramatic music + local celebrity spokesperson” economic development strategy. Ranks right below “stadium + stadium + stadium + parking” in terms of effectiveness.
Marketing/Communications people in STL are like lawyers. They’ll recommend whatever takes the longest and cost the most.
Marketing/Communications people in STL are like lawyers. They’ll recommend whatever takes the longest and cost the most.
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^ i feel like that applies to local government as well.
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If every "district" in St. Louis would expand their boundaries just 6 blocks in each direction and focus on stabilizing buildings, repairing basic infrastructure, and attracting new local residents, the city would be so much better off. St. Louis is missing the connections. Those gaps between districts / pockets of revitalization that are just forgotten about.
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I might mock the name as something deigned by a committee, but dang it, Grand Center kept the lights on. (Quite literally in a number of cases.) And that made a difference. And they fought hard to connect developers and buildings. There were and doubtless are some great folks on board and I'm thrilled to see every new success. It's not that long ago that my boss took me on a tour up a rotting skyscraper that's now the centerpiece of half those photos. Do we need to connect the dots? Yes. But you can't connect the dots if there are no dots to connect. GCI has done us a service. A real service.
Maybe I'll shut up and quit my Midtown harping. (Maybe.) But I will certainly say thank you and tip my hat to the great folks I was so honored to work with briefly so many years ago. (Who knows. I'm back in town and playing music now. Or well . . . I was playing music before the plague. And I will be again.) Here's to hoping we get to work together again soon. (If they can forgive a stubborn artist who has a hard time with new names.)
Maybe I'll shut up and quit my Midtown harping. (Maybe.) But I will certainly say thank you and tip my hat to the great folks I was so honored to work with briefly so many years ago. (Who knows. I'm back in town and playing music now. Or well . . . I was playing music before the plague. And I will be again.) Here's to hoping we get to work together again soon. (If they can forgive a stubborn artist who has a hard time with new names.)
If you're up for it, and this is off topic, but I would like to invite you and see where you could fit in to help transform the area South of Downtown. I think you'd like it. Just I have to see what my bosses say first.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Oct 02, 2020I might mock the name as something deigned by a committee, but dang it, Grand Center kept the lights on. (Quite literally in a number of cases.) And that made a difference. And they fought hard to connect developers and buildings. There were and doubtless are some great folks on board and I'm thrilled to see every new success. It's not that long ago that my boss took me on a tour up a rotting skyscraper that's now the centerpiece of half those photos. Do we need to connect the dots? Yes. But you can't connect the dots if there are no dots to connect. GCI has done us a service. A real service.
Maybe I'll shut up and quit my Midtown harping. (Maybe.) But I will certainly say thank you and tip my hat to the great folks I was so honored to work with briefly so many years ago. (Who knows. I'm back in town and playing music now. Or well . . . I was playing music before the plague. And I will be again.) Here's to hoping we get to work together again soon. (If they can forgive a stubborn artist who has a hard time with new names.)
As for the neighborhood, it's a fascinating story to read how a more or less grassroots movement saved Grand Center and is bringing it back. The neighborhood lost a lot, but I think it's in good hands now, and stable, to where this decade will be crucial for writing the next bit of history on the neighborhood.
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^Depends on what you have in mind. I'm a stagehand and a musician with an interest in history and a few other things. Happy to help preserve art, architecture, and history, but unless it's hanging speakers from a roof or writing weird ass old-fashioned music . . . I'm hardly a building professional of the usual sort. Not a designer of anything especially useful in a preservation sense. I could possibly write music for something. But beyond that, all I've done is yeoman grade theatre work and odd jobs. And the move and the pandemic have put me in an odd place. That said, I have time. You know how to PM me if you like, but no obligation.
Anyone know who's responsible for all the empty blocks along Olive/Washington/Delmar west of Grand? Those blocks and the demolition of Gaslight feel like SLU inspired travesties.
I was really bugged that many of the Gaslight Square buildings were still standing even after the MO HTCs became available, yet they were still razed.
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Fashion Fund is moving to Grand Center. I was a little worried they were off to the county, but think locating in an arts district is a really strong fit and they also won’t be far from the new textile manufacturer opening in the area.
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Not sure. They did have a pretty large space in their old building downtown.GoHarvOrGoHome wrote:Will they be taking the whole building?
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No. They're only taking a 1000 sq. ft. storefront. Their old space Downtown was 7500 sq. ft.
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Wish there was a way to get them into the Paladium instead. Still, interesting.
Is there any updated info on timing, specs, etc on this venue? Is it going to lean ORH or Ready Room/Delmar Hall? I hope the latter. Which is to say, not a reliance on jam bands and cover bands...