Troubling news continues to spew forth from WeWork btw ($10 billion takeover by SoftBank), so I'm wondering what the odds are that they ever actually open here in St. Louis.
^ I recently read in the Business Journal that a large startup in St. Louis had already signed a lease with them. My guess is they'll survive for as long as SoftBank and others continue to provide buckets of cash. Apparently this STL startup doesn't seem to have concerns about their ability to deliver the space. Time will tell, I suppose.
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... r-its.html
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... r-its.html
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^They have a mini and I mean mini space open on the first (lobby/food court) floor of the Met building. It's been there for a few months now.
Grrr. Don't remind me about those La Bamba impostors. When I saw the name of the restaurant going on Lucas, I was elated that they were finally opening here, and then they snatched it away. I wonder if they have gotten a cease and desist letter yet...debaliviere wrote: ↑Oct 18, 2019I was not aware of this. This is a good thing - he rehabbed the Bride House and owns the building that houses La Bamba, among other downtown buildings.urbanitas wrote: ↑Oct 17, 2019Building is owned by Daniel J. Cook, MD, Anesthesiologist, Inventor and it was nominated for the National Register last year. Lots of pics, plans, and building info in the application: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (pdf)dbehrens011 wrote: ↑Oct 17, 2019Does anyone know what is going on at 505 Washington Avenue? There's been a lot of activity over the last 1-2 months, mainly demo work I believe.
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^What now?!!
Downtown Mexican restaurants ranked
1. Mas Tequila Cantina (On the Landing but that’s a sub district of downtown)
2. La Bamba
3. gringo
4. vaya con dillas
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5. rosalitas
Downtown Mexican restaurants ranked
1. Mas Tequila Cantina (On the Landing but that’s a sub district of downtown)
2. La Bamba
3. gringo
4. vaya con dillas
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5. rosalitas
^The La Bamba Mexican restaurant on Lucas has no association with the La Bamba restaurant chain based in Champaign, IL since 1987, which has several locations throughout the Midwest, though their logo is similar. Hence, my rumination upon the former's recent receipt of a cease and desist letter...
https://twitter.com/STLStartupWeek/status/1184818778766479361/photo/1
So this is happening tomorrow. In case the link does not work:
" How would you design downtown St Louis?
Tuesday Oct 29
1017 Olive Sreet #300, 63101
11am to 2pm OR 5pm to 8 pm"
Anyone have any more info about this? going?
So this is happening tomorrow. In case the link does not work:
" How would you design downtown St Louis?
Tuesday Oct 29
1017 Olive Sreet #300, 63101
11am to 2pm OR 5pm to 8 pm"
Anyone have any more info about this? going?
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I believe this effort is funded by Arch to Park and run through downtown STL inc. they are in public engagement phase right now. I spoke to them a few months ago about transportation/mobility in downtown.
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I’ll be attending it. Downtown STL has an interactive map you can make comments on if you can’t make tomorrow’s times.
The majority of the comments are on our terribly designed streets that are hostile to pedestrians. Hope we can finally start making progress on that front.
As a first step, that (I assume) wouldn't cost much, retiming the lights would be huge. I overheard some tourists the other day saying "You spend more time waiting at lights than walking," while waiting to cross Washington Ave. North to South. There's no reason for such long light cycles that encourage both speeding and jaywalking.
Then we can get started on substantive changes to make streets feel like they weren't designed by rural highway planners.
The map with everybody's comments:
https://downtownstl.org/design-downtown-map/
As a first step, that (I assume) wouldn't cost much, retiming the lights would be huge. I overheard some tourists the other day saying "You spend more time waiting at lights than walking," while waiting to cross Washington Ave. North to South. There's no reason for such long light cycles that encourage both speeding and jaywalking.
Then we can get started on substantive changes to make streets feel like they weren't designed by rural highway planners.
The map with everybody's comments:
https://downtownstl.org/design-downtown-map/
It's great reading all the ideas and comments. Hopefully they actually read them.
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I'm actually surprised at the quality (and even the quantity) of most of the suggestions on the map. A lot seem to even be in line with what most of us here favor - lots of hidden urbanists in STL, perhaps?
An untapped gold mine!
"Ensure proper funding for metro by requiring mobile ticket and paper ticket scanning at entry and require all revenues be used only for downtown road resurfacing, road dieting, and metro/bike/scooter infrastructure improvements"
"Ensure proper funding for metro by requiring mobile ticket and paper ticket scanning at entry and require all revenues be used only for downtown road resurfacing, road dieting, and metro/bike/scooter infrastructure improvements"
It's so busy no one goes there anymore
"Downtown needs some kind of accessible grocery store. The Schnucks Culinaria is a joke, tiny, overcrowded, not convenient and not accessible for most of downtown."
"Downtown needs some kind of accessible grocery store. The Schnucks Culinaria is a joke, tiny, overcrowded, not convenient and not accessible for most of downtown."
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I actively found the posts that said "Tear these buildings down" and commented right next to them - Don't tear these buildings down. Feel free to do the same.
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Which buildings do people want torn down?mjbais1489 wrote: ↑Oct 30, 2019I actively found the posts that said "Tear these buildings down" and commented right next to them - Don't tear these buildings down. Feel free to do the same.
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Gateway One Tower I remember being one of them and also the parking structure south of the Railway Exchange Building. Those are the only ones that come directly to my mind.
What did people do a few decades ago when there were only corner Red & White stores? How did they ever survive without 38 flavors of oreos? The selection at the modern American supermarket is just stupidly vast.quincunx wrote: ↑Oct 30, 2019"Downtown needs some kind of accessible grocery store. The Schnucks Culinaria is a joke, tiny, overcrowded, not convenient and not accessible for most of downtown."
Culinaria's main floor is 20,000 square feet, which would've been above average for a grocery store in the 1980s.
https://urbanland.uli.org/economy-marke ... ry-stores/...grocery stores nationwide have increased dramatically in size, from an average of 18,000 square feet (1,700 sq m) in 1980s to between 30,000 and 45,000 square feet (3,800 and 4,200 sq m) in 2000. In 2007, the FMI noted that the median store size was 47,500 square feet (4,400 sq m).
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I saw the comments on some buildings in Chouteau's Landing specifically.
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Noticed yesterday that Pita Pit (Paul Brown, ground floor at Olive and 9th) is closed.
^ too many of the same? Also, you mean Pita & More? You have Yiro Gyro, Medina, Taze (RIP) and Pita & More(RIP). Am I missing any? Also Taze closed their CWE location too I'm pretty sure.. unfortunate in any case.
There was only one Pita place in the Paul Brown. Sorry to hear it’s gone. Had a good run.
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andddddd it's gone.newstl2020 wrote: ↑Oct 23, 2019^They have a mini and I mean mini space open on the first (lobby/food court) floor of the Met building. It's been there for a few months now.