^Yeah, Art House was great; they just chose the wrong block to try to build it on.
Brown Shoe Campus Expansion
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I really liked the low-rise portion of Trianon. Would have been nice if some or all of that project had gone up.
Good Lord. All of these projects in recent days really show the ambition that we once had in the region. Every single one. To bad none of them happened.
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This one still hurts. Centene's proposed HQ at Ballpark Village. My understanding is that Centene wanted to own and control their own site; perfectly reasonable. Cordish insisted that they control everything, hence no deal.
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Truly a shame. Would have really woken up that area south of Market.
^Yep. Ballpark Village would have probably been fully built-out by now, and perhaps other companies would have followed Centene's lead and moved Downtown.
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If Centene had moved to BPV we would be seeing a 60 Story building going up next to the one above.
Sure... but sooo many others HAVE come to fruition.Good Lord. All of these projects in recent days really show the ambition that we once had in the region. Every single one. To bad none of them happened.
^Yep. Keep in mind, lots of these sites have since been built on, sometimes with even bigger projects than originally proposed.
A couple of years ago, Laumeier Sculpture Park opened their new Aronson Fine Arts Center, which is a nice building, but the original design by LA based Brooks + Scarpa would have been a great building:
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Wouldn't one project that was unbuilt the interstate 170 extension to interstate 55?
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I believe I-755 would have been a different project. That would have been the city inner belt, whereas 170 found a ton of opposition in NIMBY's in Brentwood, etc., to where it never extended past I-64.
Absolutely different projects. Both killed by organized opposition, though vastly different makeups of those oppositions.
Ah, misread your last post.MattnSTL wrote: ↑Apr 18, 2017Absolutely different projects. Both killed by organized opposition, though vastly different makeups of those oppositions.
Original plans for the Arch grounds were quite different from what was built. The Arch was going to be much closer to the river, and several colonial-era buildings were to be built around the Old Cathedral and further north. An architectural museum would have been built to the south, and the main entrance to the Arch would have been through a re-constructed Old Rock House.
Michael Allen did a nice write-up on it a few years ago:
http://preservationresearch.com/greensp ... -memorial/
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Michael Allen did a nice write-up on it a few years ago:
http://preservationresearch.com/greensp ... -memorial/
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I'd quite forgotten the highway was originally supposed to have a lid or that the arch was at the bottom of the steps in the original plan. (Though I knew about the rock house, the colonial village, and the architectural history angle. And I remember the more naturalistic landscaping.) In general, I think it's a darn good thing they moved it up to the top of the hill. Can you imagine the havoc the flooding would have played on the underground spaces that still would have been required for utilities and machinery? I doubt a tram would have been practical at such a low elevation relative to the river.
At the inauguration today, a Alderman told me that there was once a Expansion planned for City Hall. Does anyone have any information on this.
