Lots of great reviews from last night at the Arch.
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I was there. First time being on the arch grounds for the celebration. Opted to park at Grand and 7 of us used Metro to get downtown. One of my friends had a guest in town from Brazil. Have to say it was a very cool, very "big city" experience. Metro was packed, and the arch grounds were packed. Must have been hundreds of thousands there. The drones are very cool. It is amazing what they can do today. Can't go this evening, but if you have never been I would suggest checking it out.
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A lot of my county friends, big music people, really loved the show last night.
Who paid for all of this? Those are some big budget musical acts. Especially Zedd. Add in the drones and fireworks.
Who paid for all of this? Those are some big budget musical acts. Especially Zedd. Add in the drones and fireworks.
Pretty awesome. Glad to see this event starting to find its footing again. And 75° for the 4th's final acts? OK!
This is where I say... STL knows how to party and in Downtown. This is the momentum we needed.
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KTVI said around 350,000 were estimated Downtown Friday evening and night.
This evening was packed (Saturday 4th) and we are just at the lines to get into the subway station again 8th and Pine.
This evening was packed (Saturday 4th) and we are just at the lines to get into the subway station again 8th and Pine.
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The Post Building added 2 tenants taking up more than 2,300 square feet.
NPower is a tech training nonprofit based in New York City while C5T is a consulting and IT company based at Scott Air Force Base.
Nearly $330,000 in building permits have been filed for renovations on the building this year, specifically Block's office space.
The building has not had too much trouble adding tenants recently, adding ScaleAI and Wesley Bell's Congressional office last year and TechSTL and Cyber Up earlier this year. However, these new tenants do not necessarily lease a ton of space.
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The Post Building added 2 tenants taking up more than 2,300 square feet.
NPower is a tech training nonprofit based in New York City while C5T is a consulting and IT company based at Scott Air Force Base.
Nearly $330,000 in building permits have been filed for renovations on the building this year, specifically Block's office space.
The building has not had too much trouble adding tenants recently, adding ScaleAI and Wesley Bell's Congressional office last year and TechSTL and Cyber Up earlier this year. However, these new tenants do not necessarily lease a ton of space.
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4th (wash ave to Chouteau) and Washington (3rd to 14th) is out to bid and due 7/28 with 305 days to finish the project
^ Great news.
$240,000 permit issued for "Toastique" franchise build-out at 100 N Broadway.
$1,580,000 permit issued for Larson tenant improvements at 100 N Broadway.
$4,000,000 permit issued for Convention Center Canopies, modernization project.
$390 permit issued for a Blade sign at the Paul Brown Building.
$240,000 permit issued for "Toastique" franchise build-out at 100 N Broadway.
$1,580,000 permit issued for Larson tenant improvements at 100 N Broadway.
$4,000,000 permit issued for Convention Center Canopies, modernization project.
$390 permit issued for a Blade sign at the Paul Brown Building.
Toastique at 100 N Broadway would be extremely interesting and a great type of business for downtown to land.
Ill believe it when I see it I guess.
Edit: Some good reddit opinions on it. Clayton is apparently 25x smaller than downtown, Clayton has more workers, people downtown aren't gonna spend the money....etc etc. Just totally removed from reality as the usual.
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Ill believe it when I see it I guess.
Edit: Some good reddit opinions on it. Clayton is apparently 25x smaller than downtown, Clayton has more workers, people downtown aren't gonna spend the money....etc etc. Just totally removed from reality as the usual.
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CBRE's 2nd Quarter office report for St. Louis shows a new lease at 200 N Broadway for 58,000 square feet for law firm Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd.
They are currently based at 1015 Locust, a pretty ugly office building that I'd imagine is struggling vacancy wise.
I haven't seen any news articles about it so I obviously don't know the details, but it's probably safe to assume they are just moving their office.
For 200 N Broadway, this is a much needed tanant to help replace FleishmanHilliard and Morgan and Morgan, who both left recently.
I wish CBRE and Colliers posted all their leasing activity instead of just the largest ones.
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They are currently based at 1015 Locust, a pretty ugly office building that I'd imagine is struggling vacancy wise.
I haven't seen any news articles about it so I obviously don't know the details, but it's probably safe to assume they are just moving their office.
For 200 N Broadway, this is a much needed tanant to help replace FleishmanHilliard and Morgan and Morgan, who both left recently.
I wish CBRE and Colliers posted all their leasing activity instead of just the largest ones.
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Pretty sure they are listed at 1015 Locust St #1200, St. Louis, MO 63101, not One Met Square.
Youre right I literally must have been too tired looking at Google maps and just misread it lol. I edited to fix.bwcrow1s wrote:Pretty sure they are listed at 1015 Locust St #1200, St. Louis, MO 63101, not One Met Square.
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That would be a pretty bad outcome for this location. The most recently BJ article about it when it was listed for sale earlier this year talked about a residential conversion being the most likely outcome since Lumen signed a long term lease for the 3rd floor data center apparently providing a steady income stream for the building.dbInSouthCity wrote:1015 is most likely become a full data center
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Rams bills allocating $55M and HB 3231 signed on the same day. Could be the biggest day in government action to lift up downtown this decade. Let’s hope the innovation district is created quickly.
Explore St. Louis takes control of Dome and receives powers and duties of the Sports Complex Authority (RSA) beginning Aug. 28, 2026.
Big summer!
Explore St. Louis takes control of Dome and receives powers and duties of the Sports Complex Authority (RSA) beginning Aug. 28, 2026.
Big summer!
There was like a 45% chance Kehoe would veto it lmaocourtland wrote:Why wasn't the innovation district being worked on concurrently?
Also as usual, slopulist lefties on Reddit pretending this bill is comparable at all to a football stadium handout.
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Additional details about the $55M appropriated for Downtown (full bill language here):addxb2 wrote: ↑11:50 PM - 12 days agoRams bills allocating $55M and HB 3231 signed on the same day. Could be the biggest day in government action to lift up downtown this decade. Let’s hope the innovation district is created quickly.
Explore St. Louis takes control of Dome and receives powers and duties of the Sports Complex Authority (RSA) beginning Aug. 28, 2026.
Big summer!
The amended bill focuses this money on the implementation of the Design Downtown STL neighborhood plan that was adopted in 2020 and is the formal roadmap for revitalizing Downtown & Downtown West, which had significant public input. This is an important amendment because it keeps the use of the funds in line with the community's desires and existing goals and hopefully minimizes another period of vision-planning and indecision.
Within the $55M Downtown Neighborhood Plan Implementation Fund there are subdivisions as follows:
- Strategic Major Capital Projects Fund - $30M
- Supporting Downtown streetscape, pedestrian, green space, and mobility capital projects ($10M minimum on projects like these)
- Riverfront Fund - $15M
- Downtown Retail and Events Program Fund - $10M
- Creation of a public-private partnership fund to support the recruitment of sporting events ($2.5M minimum)
It will be interesting to see in the coming months what city departments will come up with on implementation plans and what features of the Design Downtown STL Plan will be focused on. Hopefully some of these things can be done with in-house staff to avoid giving funds away to consultants and lengthy planning timelines and things can just get done, its time!
Apologies, I'm old and detached from online political debate (this site excluded). What is a "slopulist leftie" and how are they comparing this to sportsball subsidies?StlAlex wrote: ↑3:43 AM - 12 days agoThere was like a 45% chance Kehoe would veto it lmaocourtland wrote:Why wasn't the innovation district being worked on concurrently?
Also as usual, slopulist lefties on Reddit pretending this bill is comparable at all to a football stadium handout.
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Here is that plan
Reading through this really brings me back. It's crazy how much can change in six years. Still a lot of good stuff. RIP the garment district, I thought that was a good idea but I guess it just ran out of steam.
One of my biggest gripes with this plan is that they don't seem to want to push mixed use residential north of Lucas Ave or south of the train tracks (IE page 118)
Downtown operates as an island (although now at least has some nice bike infrastructure connections) and IMO we need to be focusing on rebuilding these outer areas just as much as the core. Stitching downtown back into the cities greater urban fabric should be a macro level priority for STL
Building out the western half of the Gateway Mall is also identified in this document. Hopefully this money can get at least one of these blocks refreshed. Aloe Plaza could be so cool with a little vision and investment. Especially if they can get surface parking lot to the north developed into something cool and mixed use.
Reading through this really brings me back. It's crazy how much can change in six years. Still a lot of good stuff. RIP the garment district, I thought that was a good idea but I guess it just ran out of steam.
One of my biggest gripes with this plan is that they don't seem to want to push mixed use residential north of Lucas Ave or south of the train tracks (IE page 118)
Downtown operates as an island (although now at least has some nice bike infrastructure connections) and IMO we need to be focusing on rebuilding these outer areas just as much as the core. Stitching downtown back into the cities greater urban fabric should be a macro level priority for STL
Building out the western half of the Gateway Mall is also identified in this document. Hopefully this money can get at least one of these blocks refreshed. Aloe Plaza could be so cool with a little vision and investment. Especially if they can get surface parking lot to the north developed into something cool and mixed use.