The Gallery Apartments @ Millennium Center

arch city · PostApr 12, 2013#12013-04-12T12:17+00:00

Apartments coming to Millennium Center downtown
6 hours ago • By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
04/12/13

Millennium Center, seen next to Macy's/T-Rex and Metropolitan Square Tower.

See on Google Streetview: Millennium Center

ST. LOUIS • Downtown’s first glass-walled office tower has a new owner who plans to relocate existing tenants to lower floors and renovate the higher floors as apartments.

Developer Brian Hayden completed his purchase of the Millennium Center last week and hopes to have some apartments ready for tenants by late summer in the 51-year-old building. The entire project is scheduled for completion in 2014.

Hayden, who redid last year a former downtown hotel as apartments, said that despite several other residential projects under way or planned, the area’s market has room to grow.

“I think that if you plopped a thousand apartments downtown right now you’d fill them up by the end of July,” he said.

At his newly purchased Millennium Center, 515 Olive Street, Hayden plans 102 one- and two-bedroom apartments on the top 11 floors of the 20-story building. Office tenants will be consolidated on floors two through nine.

The Millennium Center, originally the Executive Office Building, is downtown’s first structure featuring a lightweight, glass curtain-wall facade. The Modern Movement-style tower, designed by the Chicago firm of A. Epstein & Sons and completed in 1962, was the first big building erected in downtown St. Louis since the Depression.

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downtown2007 · PostApr 12, 2013#22013-04-12T12:55+00:00

Wow thats awesome!!! Will go from a underutilized bldg with 36% occupancy to a mixed use building that might be close to fully occupied. Plus this area needs a shot of 24 hour life. Big win

ImprovSTL · PostApr 12, 2013#32013-04-12T14:19+00:00

That guy seems to be doing things right...one project at a time.

stladvocate · PostApr 12, 2013#42013-04-12T14:44+00:00

I was one of the first, if not the first, tenants to move into his latest project, The Gallery 400 Apartments. There were some rough patches in the beginning, but that was to be expected becasue I moved in while construction was still going on. All-in-all I have had a great experience living in the building for the past year, and would recommend this manangement group to anyone. They are all very good people, and they do things the right way. I wish them the best with the new project.

stlien · PostApr 12, 2013#52013-04-12T17:24+00:00

stladvocate wrote:I was one of the first, if not the first, tenants to move into his latest project, The Gallery 400 Apartments.

Is there parking in the building?

stladvocate · PostApr 12, 2013#62013-04-12T17:54+00:00

stlien wrote:
stladvocate wrote:I was one of the first, if not the first, tenants to move into his latest project, The Gallery 400 Apartments.
Is there parking in the building?

They have a deal with the 500 Broadway Parking Garage right next door. They even created a private entrance for tenants, so that we wouldn't have to walk out of the building to get to the garage.

Presbyterian · PostApr 12, 2013#72013-04-12T18:04+00:00

This project has the potential to go minimalist aesthetic, clean lines and iconic mid-century modern design. Think the Mies van der Rohe Lake Shore Drive Apartments:

HOWEVER, I should caution that this developer has a reputation for going busy transitional style with lots of homey-feeling built-ins with decorative cabinet doors like your mom would want, dropped ceilings and cutesy carved fenceposts. His project on Washgton in Midtown is like that, as is Gallery 400, where the suspended ceilings in the units actually cut the windows in half. And the building will have none of the protections that come with historic tax credits.

Gallery 400:

I'm hoping for the best. But I'm bracing for desecration.

Alex Ihnen · PostApr 12, 2013#82013-04-12T19:01+00:00

They're high-end. It will be a tasteful desecration.

olvidarte · PostApr 12, 2013#92013-04-12T20:03+00:00

Ouch, those drop ceilings in Gallery 400 aren't so great, but at least the building is active again I guess.

I'd love to see a mid century marvel at Millennium Center as well, could truly set this building apart from all the historic stock downtown and really be special, hopefully he sees the same potential as we all do. I applaud him for the things he's doing downtown...but maybe he could work with a different architect?

wabash · PostApr 14, 2013#102013-04-14T02:10+00:00

It's exciting that, along with the Roberts conversion/completion (and perhaps the Pointe 400/Sverdrup conversion?), this represents an alternative route to downtown residential development other than the usual HTC approach. It would be great to see this repeated elsewhere DT - taking B and C office space off the market and bringing in more residents. I think 1010 Market would be a great candidate for such a conversion. They've lost a few key tenants recently, and being 4 blocks from Culinaria, 3 blocks from Busch, 2 from SLU law, and across the street from City Garden, they have a very marketable location.

juSTLovely · PostApr 14, 2013#112013-04-14T03:07+00:00

Good lord! If I was shopping rentals this would be a deal-breaker, to say the least...
I think hiring an architect, period, would be a good step. Those ballister railings must have been on sale that week...and is there even head clearance up on that loft?

Good call on the mid-century mod aesthetic, Presbyterian. I agree. Those Mies Lake Shore Drive apartments where the first thing that came to mind seeing that first pic.

debaliviere · PostApr 15, 2013#122013-04-15T13:47+00:00

I believe those drop ceilings were in place before Hayden bought Gallery 400. Bill Stallings originally rehabbed it, then the Roberts Brothers bought it.

arch city · PostOct 18, 2013#132013-10-18T19:48+00:00

See more views from the new The Gallery Apartments @ Millennium Center. I think some of the views help to validate the need for more green roof parking garages around St. Louis - especially downtown and Clayton.

JuanHamez · PostOct 18, 2013#142013-10-18T20:15+00:00

arch city wrote:See more views from the new The Gallery Apartments @ Millennium Center. I think some of the views help to validate the need for more green roof parking garages around St. Louis - especially downtown and Clayton.

Those images of the apartments look great. You're right about all those parking decks. I wonder how the city would look if we forced all parking deck owners to have hanging gardens on the sides of them. It would make our city look pretty awesome when they're in bloom and would be a unique touch.

You know, like the hanging gardens of Babylon, except with parking decks.

Presbyterian · PostOct 19, 2013#152013-10-19T02:27+00:00

The interior photos are not of this building. Note the punch windows in solid exterior walls ... This building has glass exterior walls. Also, none of the ten listed floor plans has kitchens like these. Perhaps these photos are just to illustrate the finishes?

Either way, looking at the cabinetry choices (everything your grandma dreamed of in cherry cabinets with crown molding... but inside an iconic mid-century building) and looking at the floorplans -- which are bizarre -- I struggle to imagine that an architect was used on this project.

(No windows in the living room or kitchen... but a window in the closet)

(Again... windowless living areas, but a closet flooded with natural light.)

(Mies would not have picked these cabinets. And if he had, he would have picked the smaller size for over the sink in order to keep a clean line along their top)

This is confusing. Midcentury on the outside. Aventura on the inside. Next time, please hire an architect.

framer · PostOct 19, 2013#162013-10-19T05:34+00:00

^Yup.

jcity · PostDec 11, 2013#172013-12-11T05:34+00:00

This is like if grandma from Festus was all of a sudden a developer downtown. Instead of going lowes cheap he could have gone modern cheap, in the least. How are these doing? These aren't going to attract the higher income tenants we want downtown.

stlien · PostDec 11, 2013#182013-12-11T08:11+00:00

If these lease well, then we know downtown has an insatiable appetite for residential.

gary kreie · PostNov 25, 2014#192014-11-25T15:22+00:00

I looked at these apartments yesterday. The agency said they are 70% rented. There are two penthouse apartments on top of the building with walls set back from the edge, providing an outside deck most of the way around the building. Nice views of Eads Bridge and the River. Partial view of the top of the Arch and Busch from various sides.

stlien · PostNov 26, 2014#202014-11-26T02:57+00:00

gary kreie wrote:I looked at these apartments yesterday. The agency said they are 70% rented. There are two penthouse apartments on top of the building with walls set back from the edge, providing an outside deck most of the way around the building. Nice views of Eads Bridge and the River. Partial view of the top of the Arch and Busch from various sides.

What did you think of the interior of the penthouse?

gary kreie · PostNov 29, 2014#212014-11-29T20:51+00:00

stlien wrote:
gary kreie wrote:I looked at these apartments yesterday. The agency said they are 70% rented. There are two penthouse apartments on top of the building with walls set back from the edge, providing an outside deck most of the way around the building. Nice views of Eads Bridge and the River. Partial view of the top of the Arch and Busch from various sides.
What did you think of the interior of the penthouse?

It was OK. We saw the North Penthouse. It had a deck on the North that wrapped around to the East side, but the East side was railed off to be a common area deck. Same materials and finish used in the other apartments. The common area deck was closed because you could look right into bedroom windows. Pretty big with 3 bedrooms and two baths I believe. Not spectacular.

stlien · PostNov 30, 2014#222014-11-30T02:40+00:00

gary kreie wrote:It was OK. We saw the North Penthouse. It had a deck on the North that wrapped around to the East side, but the East side was railed off to be a common area deck. Same materials and finish used in the other apartments. The common area deck was closed because you could look right into bedroom windows. Pretty big with 3 bedrooms and two baths I believe. Not spectacular.

Rooftop decks are cool. Makes me wonder why he didn't go with "better" finishes; he probably could charge a higher rent. Speaking of price, how much was the rent? And how many sq ft.

Auggie · PostAug 01, 2025#232025-08-01T17:13+00:00

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... fault.html

Gallery 515 has been put into receivership after its owner, Brian Hayden, defaulted on the building's debt.

He has not made a debt payment since November of 2024 and owes $13.9 million.

The building's 90 apartments are 85% occupied while its office space is completely vacant.

Hayden listed the building for sale back in March for $15.8 million.

Chris Stritzel · PostAug 01, 2025#242025-08-01T18:10+00:00

Makes sense why he was trying to offload so many of his properties. The debt is piling up for generally lackluster products.

PeterXCV · PostAug 01, 2025#252025-08-01T18:51+00:00

$15.9 million? How much did he buy it for?