don't forget the Eagleton Lawn, Cupples X, Cupples 7, Kaufman Park and Eternal Flame Park. If that's not enough we should be able to open up a few more blocks by modifying how some of the off ramps merge to the street at 10th and Clark and if it help give them the old police station block (Clark and Tucker) and the parking lots by City Hall and Scottrade Center (or could it be the newly renovated Amazon Arena...)framer wrote: Amazon could dominate the core of Downtown, and the Gateway Mall could be their de facto campus.
Start with the ATT Tower, then build right across the Gateway Mall on the (mostly) vacant lot at 10th and Market, then the three blocks of Ballpark Village Phase III, then the Mike Shannon's site at 7th St., and finally replace the garages on Chestnut between Broadway and 7th.
exactlystlgasm wrote: ↑Oct 05, 2017CNN.com:
Cities are doing wacky things to host Amazon's second headquarters
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/04/technol ... index.html
No mention of St. Louis at all in the article. Cities mentioned include Tucson, Philly, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, DC, Canada and more. St. Louis is SOOOO not on the national media radar for this.
This helps us more than it hurts us IMO. It gives the STL Bid the opportunity to set our own narrative other than it being set by the national media.goat314 wrote:exactlystlgasm wrote: ↑Oct 05, 2017CNN.com:
Cities are doing wacky things to host Amazon's second headquarters
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/04/technol ... index.html
No mention of St. Louis at all in the article. Cities mentioned include Tucson, Philly, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, DC, Canada and more. St. Louis is SOOOO not on the national media radar for this.
It might also be because we haven't done anything "wacky" like try to ship amazon a cactus, which was mostly the theme of the article. I am fine with us not doing something like that.stlgasm wrote: ↑Oct 05, 2017CNN.com:
Cities are doing wacky things to host Amazon's second headquarters
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/04/technol ... index.html
No mention of St. Louis at all in the article. Cities mentioned include Tucson, Philly, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, DC, Canada and more. St. Louis is SOOOO not on the national media radar for this.
I think Eads bridge might be a likelier connection. I’m pretty sure that’s been proposed/planned in the past. Maybe not eliminating all traffic right of way, but at least dramatically reducing it. Giving it a pier type feeling.shadrach wrote:Just daydreaming here.
Since ESTL is in play, this would be a rather bold way to connect downtown/Illinois.
I can see this fitting into the Chouteau Greenway vision as well.
Yes, Easy for San Jose to say when Google is already buying up prime downtown real estate for a major TOD campus with 20-25,000 jobs to placed on top of the fact that Apple bought up a chunk of North San Jose near the airport and has a lesser known campus already under development and thousands of more jobs..quincunx wrote: ↑Oct 06, 2017Easy for San Jose to say, I suppose, but still interesting.
WSJ - Why I'm Not Bidding for Amazon's HQ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-im-not ... 1507158668
I really think it’s between St Louis and Detroit. Except STL IMO has much more to offer.chriss752 wrote:Up in Detroit, they are not messing around with this one. To recap, Windsor Canada is involved making it the only binational bid. Also, they have Dan Gilbert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Kh-z_9FjA
BUT... our bid won't include the AT&T Center if the report from yesterday is true.Chalupas54 wrote: ↑Oct 07, 2017I really think it’s between St Louis and Detroit. Except STL IMO has much more to offer.chriss752 wrote:Up in Detroit, they are not messing around with this one. To recap, Windsor Canada is involved making it the only binational bid. Also, they have Dan Gilbert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Kh-z_9FjA
Again, I think One ATT Center is what sets St Louis apart.
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Just found the report. However, I had heard just on Thursday that the ATT Center held a very prominent place in the site offerings section of the bid. I believe the report means the “land offerings” to amazon are on the North Riverfront and ESTL. The ATT Center is very much in play from my understanding...chriss752 wrote:BUT... our bid won't include the AT&T Center if the report from yesterday is true.Chalupas54 wrote: ↑Oct 07, 2017I really think it’s between St Louis and Detroit. Except STL IMO has much more to offer.chriss752 wrote:Up in Detroit, they are not messing around with this one. To recap, Windsor Canada is involved making it the only binational bid. Also, they have Dan Gilbert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Kh-z_9FjA
Again, I think One ATT Center is what sets St Louis apart.
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Would be happy to be wrong here, but I'd be a little surprised if "making a difference" is much of a priority for Amazon. They're a publicly traded company. I would think ROI is what their decision will be all about.St.Louis1764 wrote: ↑Oct 07, 2017Amazon could make differences in any city that it chooses to enter but if the company is really looking to make the best of all differences St.Louis is the place to go!
chriss752 wrote:BUT... our bid won't include the AT&T Center if the report from yesterday is true.Chalupas54 wrote: ↑Oct 07, 2017
I really think it’s between St Louis and Detroit. Except STL IMO has much more to offer.
Again, I think One ATT Center is what sets St Louis apart.
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Do we really lack talent? Or does it all exist out in the suburbs?St.Louis1764 wrote: ↑Oct 07, 2017Even if we lack talent i don't think they have a hard time getting talent to move here money always talks besides isn't that how all cities became what they were is talent from all over the country and world came to them?
I really think it could be a great site for them on the North Riverfront. Imagine if we also incorporated a removing the elevated I-70 lanes, returning third street and adding a third street street car? I think between that, N/S expansion, and the existing two lines, we have a pretty beefy transportation system."St. Louis will propose 909 Chestnut, the largest skyscraper downtown, as the move-in ready option.
There are MetroLink stations at the base of the AT&T tower, at Laclede’s Landing next to the north riverfront and in East St. Louis. Additionally, there’s another downtown station on Washington Avenue."
