STLCOP and BJC traded some land a year or so ago along Taylor just south of Lindell. STLCOP now has a contiguous campus - great to hear they are expanding.
STLCOP and Cannon knock it out of the park - looks like a great building - gives the campus a public face, gets rid of a parking lot and an unremarkable one story building
STLCOP expansion, New Shriners Hospital, Cortex expansion, (along with Aventura completion, and possible Boyle Metrolink addition). These are exciting times for this pocket of the CWE.
This is slightly off topic, but with several projects taking place along Taylor Avenue, does anybody know if there are plans to eventually rethink the pedestrian experience along Taylor between Forest Park Parkway and Highway 40? That section is incredibly pedestrian unfriendly (no barriers between the pedestrian and road is made worse by random street signs, telephone poles, and streetlights blocking the sidewalk) and will presumably be seeing a lot more people walking along it in the coming years.
^ Building is in the southwest corner of Taylor and Parkview. Click the yellow "Go Explore" button to get a better idea of the extent of the STLCOP campus. The photos are looking in the 1) southwest, 2) south, 3) west by southwest, 4) southeast directions. The Cartwright Student Center will make way for this new building.
^Got it; thanks. I take it BJC owns the lot between Parkview and Forest Park Parkway?
For the southern half of the lot (facing Parkview), St. Louis College of Pharmacy has beeen listed as owner since 2010. Washington University School of Medicine is listed as owner of the northern half of the lot. There was a land swap several yeas ago.
So is the 6-story portion of the new COP building going on that triangular site at the bottom of that view (in blue)? Will it hug the street line? Can anyone dig up a site-plan?
In his new nextStl story, Alex says he requested a site plan and was told that the city hadn't yet seen certain details, and so it won't yet be released. The renderings show differing treatments of the site. Yes, the tower is the triangular area. Beyond that, I can't tell how it addresses the street.
Drove by at lunch - Construction fence is up - demo of the old student center should start soon - I am starting to think this is going to have a pretty big impact on the CWE skyline.
Work has started to rock n' roll. Sign sez Spring 2015... seems ambitious but we'll see. McKinley is already taking shape and by fall we may see this building taking form.
I don't know what the data shows for the supply side, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts employment demand of pharmacists will grow 14% and will add 41,400 jobs between 2012-2022. There were 286k pharmacists as of 2012.
johnnyqnola wrote:I don't know what the data shows for the supply side, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts employment demand of pharmacists will grow 14% and will add 41,400 jobs between 2012-2022. There were 286k pharmacists as of 2012.
which seems to indicate something like 14,000 (and growing) pharmacy graduates annually. Now, I do not know the exact numbers of how many older pharmacists are retiring, but there would need to be at least 10,000 retiring every year to break even in the job market. Basically, there are going to be 140,000 new pharmacists over the next 10 years to fill 40000 new jobs, which mean 100,000, or roughly 34% of all current pharmacists will have to retire in the next 10 years, otherwise there we will end up with a large number of unemployed Pharmacy graduates with gigantic amounts of student debt. Also, this glut will cause the wages of all other pharmacists to fall as companies can afford to hire part time pharmacists. Now would not necessarily seem like the time to expand your pharmacy school to me.
