Great Forbes article and STL beating out even ATL in 3rd. Nice
Seems that Forbes loves St. Louis.
"In St. Louis, Landmarks Are Given New Life As Fine Hotels"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnoseid/ ... 7fdb1926b9
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"In St. Louis, Landmarks Are Given New Life As Fine Hotels"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnoseid/ ... 7fdb1926b9
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It's a great article, but I do find it funny that you have to get halfway in before you find a picture of a building that wasn't a hotel in the first place. (Note: The half of the Union Station headhouse that is a hotel now was built as the Terminal Hotel. Small point, but . . . that was always a hotel. You can't read it in the picture, but it still says Terminal Hotel on the nearest arch. The train station started at about the round tower, more or less.)
Nothing on the author, here. He hits the conversions first and moves on to the refurbs later. It's just that Union Station is so darned photogenic. (For a building that's actually supremely difficult to photograph well.)
Anyway, the rehabs are great to see. And the rehabs of historic hotels as hotels? (Like Terminal, Lennox, Mayfair, Statler, Railroaders Y, and doubtless one or two others I'm forgetting.) Even better!
Nothing on the author, here. He hits the conversions first and moves on to the refurbs later. It's just that Union Station is so darned photogenic. (For a building that's actually supremely difficult to photograph well.)
Anyway, the rehabs are great to see. And the rehabs of historic hotels as hotels? (Like Terminal, Lennox, Mayfair, Statler, Railroaders Y, and doubtless one or two others I'm forgetting.) Even better!
America’s Clergy Are Teaming Up With Scientists
In May 2015, S. Joshua Swamidass, a computational biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, received a curious email: would he like to try advising a theological seminary? https://www.wired.com/story/americas-cl ... cientists/
In May 2015, S. Joshua Swamidass, a computational biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, received a curious email: would he like to try advising a theological seminary? https://www.wired.com/story/americas-cl ... cientists/
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Well if that doesn't hit close to home. And leave me a bit sad and unsatisfied.
Here's an interesting little tidbit on rental housing construction:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luxury-apa ... al-market/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luxury-apa ... al-market/
I can only assume they mean that we're fastest by apartment growth, since all accounts I've seen suggest the metro area is growing at it's usual sluggish rate by population. Interesting to get a somewhat back-handed compliment, even if it is a bit misleading at best.Of course, high-salaried New York City and San Francisco renters would consider that a bargain. But this national figure also includes lower-than-average-income cities like St. Louis, Missouri, which happens to be the fastest growing metropolitan area in the country. It built "nothing but high-end apartments in 2017," said the survey.
I believe they are trying to cite this data: https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-ma ... into-2018/
(but butchering the citation, of course)
This shows that St. Louis is #1 in the country in terms of share of high end apartments built, out of total apartments built. It basically means that all apartments built in 2017 (and most apts built in 2018) were high end. But this does not say anything about how many apartments are being built (in total) in St Louis vis-a-vis other cities.
(but butchering the citation, of course)
This shows that St. Louis is #1 in the country in terms of share of high end apartments built, out of total apartments built. It basically means that all apartments built in 2017 (and most apts built in 2018) were high end. But this does not say anything about how many apartments are being built (in total) in St Louis vis-a-vis other cities.
St. Louis Aims to Deploy Wi-Fi-Enabled Smart Kiosks by January 2019
The city has issued a request for proposals for the touchscreen kiosks, which will direct residents and tourists to points of interest and offer directions.
https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2 ... ssion=true
The city has issued a request for proposals for the touchscreen kiosks, which will direct residents and tourists to points of interest and offer directions.
https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2 ... ssion=true
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^ That's interesting; good catch. I like that they're specifically including clauses to try and prevent a boondoggle in regards to the functionality of the kiosks.
Posted this quote from Jshank in the Lambert thread, but thought it could use a mention here as well:
Posted this quote from Jshank in the Lambert thread, but thought it could use a mention here as well:
Really a very well done article, and I just might have to go and find some of the places the author went to.St. Louis is the feature city in the Southwest Magazine this month. Really puts us in a good light, one of the better articles I have read about the city. Pages 50-69 https://www.swamedia.com/magazine
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Saw this click-through listicle ranking the "Best Suburbs" (not sure what they're best in/for). Brentwood, Clayton & Richmond Heights all in the top 10 - Creve Coeur & Glendale in the top 50.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realesta ... p#image=50
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realesta ... p#image=50
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^ Pretty good, but a couple quibbles. One, the City's population is about 500,000 less people then in 1950, not 100,000. While the Gateway Station is far from the opulence of Union Station, it's hardly a "shack."
Also, I think most Chinese immigrants have settled more closely to the area surrounding 170 and Olive, not the CWE.
Also, I think most Chinese immigrants have settled more closely to the area surrounding 170 and Olive, not the CWE.
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^You can add to that that Union Station was never the largest in the world. It was large, but never largest. It might have been number two for a while, when it was second int he US only to New York's Grand Central Terminal. And it does have the largest train shed (Boston's South Station was nearly identical, but the shed there is gone) and had the most tracks on one level. (Grand Central uses two.) And to be fair, he might have missed the new station. It's pretty buried and the Amshack was there for a long long time. But the gist of the thing mostly feels sincere and the mistakes are those of someone who's heard too many over-eager tour guides. You have no idea how many times I heard that the McDonald's at UMC in Columbia was the busiest in the world or that Ellis was the largest library in the state or UMC the oldest college west of the Mississippi. (It's not even the oldest college in Columbia.) But it's still darn nice to hear someone from outside saying something nice. Especially talking up the cultural attractions.
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Whoa, not sure if anyone is aware of this, but WorldWide Technology is running a #SiliconValleyinSTL ad campaign in New York and DC. In NYC, there is a digital billboard outside of Penn Station that displays the ad, and in DC it displays on the Capital One Arena.
That's cool. I saw them in our airport but I didn't realize they were running them in other cities.Chalupas54 wrote: ↑Nov 13, 2018Whoa, not sure if anyone is aware of this, but WorldWide Technology is running a #SiliconValleyinSTL ad campaign in New York and DC. In NYC, there is a digital billboard outside of Penn Station that displays the ad, and in DC it displays on the Capital One Arena.
The Gateway Arch museum is up for best new attraction for 2018.
Rock the vote!
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/be ... tion-2018/
Rock the vote!
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/be ... tion-2018/
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Most Dangerous Metros -- Here we go again. Oh, wait. We don't make this metro area most dangerous list.
https://www.workandmoney.com/s/dangerou ... ent=283834
So the local radio stations, the Post, and Riverfront Times won't cover it since it doesn't drive St. Louisans to move to Indy or Nashville metros. Indy and Nashville metros did make the list at 10th and 13th. This ranking uses metro area boundaries set consistently by the Feds based on population statistics. "City" rankings use political boundaries wildly inconsistent metro to metro.
If you fairly rank the inner 2o% core of metro areas -- closer to what St. Louis City represents -- St Louis metro core ranks better than only Memphis and New Orleans for total crime. But St. Louis Metro area outer 80% total crime is the 2nd best of the 50 largest metro areas, which is why St. Louis doesn't show up on metro area crime rankings like the one here.
https://www.workandmoney.com/s/dangerou ... ent=283834
So the local radio stations, the Post, and Riverfront Times won't cover it since it doesn't drive St. Louisans to move to Indy or Nashville metros. Indy and Nashville metros did make the list at 10th and 13th. This ranking uses metro area boundaries set consistently by the Feds based on population statistics. "City" rankings use political boundaries wildly inconsistent metro to metro.
If you fairly rank the inner 2o% core of metro areas -- closer to what St. Louis City represents -- St Louis metro core ranks better than only Memphis and New Orleans for total crime. But St. Louis Metro area outer 80% total crime is the 2nd best of the 50 largest metro areas, which is why St. Louis doesn't show up on metro area crime rankings like the one here.
This also came up on Reddit and is misleading. Bottom line is: St. Louis does not show up on the ranking because of a statistical issue. But if it did, it would still not look as bad. Here is what I wrote over there:
If you go check the original report, the main variable that is used to produce this ranking (crime rate per 100k inhabitants) is missing for the St Louis metro area. Since it is a missing observation, naturally St Louis does not make it to the ranking. I think there is some issue with the way that Violent Crime is classified in our metro area that is not compatible with the way FBI compiles statistics.
If you are interested, I took the FBI data and sorted it into the top30 metro areas by violent crime rates and no missing observations. This should coincide with the slideshow, so it'll save you many clicks unless you're into stock pictures of said MSA's
If we look at murder rates, a variable which is NOT missing for St Louis, we get the St Louis metro coming out in number 25 (out of 394 metros)
If we further focus on murder rate for cities with over 100k inhabitants (a common criterion in this type of exercises), St Louis climbs to 21. Still pretty good I'd say, given the general perception
So this isn't really news about St. Louis, but a fictional story about a bombing in St. Louis and two architects who attempt to plan a memorial to the victims. An interesting, and long, read. Thought I'd share it here.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... r-st-louis
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... r-st-louis
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Yeah, I see what you mean about the missing data in FBI Table 6 for 2017 for St. Louis metro. Actually, all the data is there from St. Louis City. And it is there for all the other counties in the metro area combined, except for aggravated assault category. The FBI believes it was under-reported or did not follow the UCR guidelines. But all outlying county data for aggravated assaults IS included FBI Table 6 for 2015 reporting.
If you use the 2015 numbers for outlying counties aggravated assault, but use 2017 numbers for City and all the other categories for the counties, the total comes to 507 per 100K if I computed it correctly. This is worse than the 486 total from 2015. But it is still well below the worst city in the article -- 551-- reported for Beaumont Texas.
So St. Louis Metro would not have made this 2017 Most Dangerous Metro Areas list in any case.
If you use the 2015 numbers for outlying counties aggravated assault, but use 2017 numbers for City and all the other categories for the counties, the total comes to 507 per 100K if I computed it correctly. This is worse than the 486 total from 2015. But it is still well below the worst city in the article -- 551-- reported for Beaumont Texas.
So St. Louis Metro would not have made this 2017 Most Dangerous Metro Areas list in any case.
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STL- #5 best food city according to Food & Wine:
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblo ... d-and-wine
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblo ... d-and-wine
This is a few months old, but the WSJ highlighted Missouri as a top travel spot for 2019. While the tag line is a little annoying, glad that the arch and other development downtown as well as Cortex continues to make headlines.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.co ... 1540312403
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.co ... 1540312403