PostJun 29, 2021#376
^ Southeast corner of 11th and Chestnut would have put it right in the path of the Gateway Mall I think...
I wonder if it would have survived had it been built...
I wonder if it would have survived had it been built...
Apparently this got pretty close to being built. From 1/16/29:
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And from 3/3/29:
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And from 3/3/29:
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I guess the final building plans and specifications were not finalized before October 1929.
Didn't see this one posted here anywhere, the original iteration of Forsyth Pointe before the Flaherty & Collins project fell through.
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I suppose what ended up getting built isn't too bad though...
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I suppose what ended up getting built isn't too bad though...
City Block 177 - 125 apartments, one large retail space, and 800 parking spaces.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/ ... urce=login
In the late 1960s, two entirely different proposals went before the city for the redevelopment of Laclede's Landing, a nine-block area bordered by the Third Street Expressway on the west, the Mississippi River on the east, and Veterans and Eads bridges on the north and south.
One plan called River Center (model pictured above), advocated total redevelopment. Nine buildings, ranging from 12 to 51 stories, would rise from a platform terrace.
The most spectacular feature of the plan, which called for an investment of more than $100 million, would be the 550-foot-high central tower, with eight office floors and 43 residential and service floors.
In all, River Center would contain a 22-story motor hotel, a 17-story office building, two 31-story senior citizens' apartments, a 36-story middle income co-operative residence, two 36-story middle income towers, a 12-story spine building with middle income apartments and penthouse terrace units, and the central tower.
Provision were made for five levels of parking for 4,449 automobiles, shops, amusements, a 2-acre park and promenade levels
^I'll bet if they actually started on that project they would have torn down Laclede's Landing, built maybe 2 buildings and left the rest a parking lot.
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^Which is painfully close to what we got with the Lumiere Place project, save that they only tore down maybe two thirds of the buildings.
One, I doubt the tallest building would ever be built. Also, I get the feeling that whole thing would have been demoed in the late 90s after years of vacancy, national embarrassment and failed efforts to revive it in various incarnations from destination center, affordable living center, some weird 'university' from Ireland or Saudi Arabia with sketchy dealings. In the end it suffered from there never ever being any 'there' there. And the site still sits vacant adding more unbuilt renderings to this thread. The latest stomach pain is a proposal for a QuikTrip, an extended stay motel and a mini-golf 'entertainment center.'
At least the abandoned site would have made for great dystopian movie filming.
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^Gattaca definitely would have been filmed there.
Not sure if this one was posted before: Proposed Third Street Elevated Trafficway
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Glad that didn't come to fruition. Make it elevated rail, and I'd think differently.
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^ They essentially did build an elevated rail through that area. It still carries freight traffic below the Arch to this day.
The mistake was plowing a highway though the same area…which is essentially what you see in these illustrations. It might not have resulted in the multi-level road depicted here, but the modern waterfront ended up with essentially what these illustrations planned, at least in terms of traffic movement.
The mistake was plowing a highway though the same area…which is essentially what you see in these illustrations. It might not have resulted in the multi-level road depicted here, but the modern waterfront ended up with essentially what these illustrations planned, at least in terms of traffic movement.
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So is that basically a park and roadways built on top of the existing structures or what's going on there? That can't all be parking, can it?
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I would have loved to have those art-deco towers lining the arch grounds today. Had they not built 44, that view down 3rd would have been very Central Park-esque. From that plan, I also am a fan of the triumphal arches on Washington before you hit the Eads Bridge! All of these various plans to completely level that area show that they really hated the original riverfront, and it never really stood a chance. Still curious to think about what could have been had they not, though.
I guess this was an early concept of what became the Boatmen's Bank Tower (100 North Broadway)
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