Ramps inside the buildings would allow residents to drive to their apartments on what, in effect, would be indoor streets.
The future as I've always envisioned it!
The future as I've always envisioned it!
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^ The future is here, sir! Actually, this thing in Miami is craaazy!
The world's billionaires are flocking to Miami's luxurious Porsche Design Tower, where they can use an elevator for their cars
http://www.businessinsider.com/billiona ... wer-2016-2
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The world's billionaires are flocking to Miami's luxurious Porsche Design Tower, where they can use an elevator for their cars
http://www.businessinsider.com/billiona ... wer-2016-2
the future is even better than envisaged.....
I'm being ironically snarky btw.
I'm being ironically snarky btw.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... f4f51.htmlFormer Mercantile Library
Except for the Hotel Indigo site, developer Brian Hayden owns the block bounded by North Broadway and Olive, Sixth and Locust streets. The block includes the Millennium Center, the former Mercantile Library and other buildings of five or six floors.
Hayden already has rehabbed the Millennium Center as a mixture of offices and apartments. In August, he described for the Post-Dispatch his intention to redo the other buildings on the block as apartments with parking at their front doors.
Ramps inside the now-vacant buildings would let residents to drive to their apartments on what, in effect, would be indoor streets. The interior ramps would have to be constructed.
Hayden said each floor could have features to signify a theme — rocks to simulate a desert and fake snow to set a winter scene — for examples. He said the apartments could be ready in 2018.
A city building permit issued Dec. 13 outlines a $327,000 project that indicates construction of parking on several floors. Efforts this week to reach Hayden for comment were unsuccessful.
That is a little bit crazy. I guess he wants to do a St. Louis Centre concept but add apartments or condos instead of just parking. Crazy.
Did they even power-wash the building. I thought a paint job would look good.
The garage across from Locust belongs to Stifel and the garage across from Broadway belongs to the Federal Reserve.
I heard that the Federal Reserve tried to purchase this building at some point to demo it and build an office tower on top of a parking garage as they need to expand (more than half of their workers are on rented space at 300 Broadway, the black building north of the old HQ).
^Didn't the Fed build a new building something like ten years ago? Have they outgrown that one already?
They expanded the old building from half a block to cover the entire block, the north side of the Fed building looks like the south side but is actually much newer.
See the old half-block building here (perspective from SE I believe):https://www.google.com/search?q=st+loui ... b7eLhvFUyM:
and the current one-block building here (perspective from NE, so new part in the foreground): https://www.google.com/search?q=st+loui ... V5oZnt9SAM:
Their operations expanded considerably in the last few years AFTER the building expansion as all Treasury Payments operations were concentrated in St Louis (previously they were spread around the Fed System, with a lot of work being done in Boston and New York). I believe hearing that the number of employees more than doubled at the time. As a result, they cannot fit anyone in the old (expanded) building and rent several floors on 300 Broadway.
Today. More balconies have been installed and work continues to happen. I wonder if this project consists of the 6th and Locust and corner as not much work has been done there, but it has been moving slow. This project's name is now "Gallery 512" and according to construction workers on site, there will be retail space on the first floor. A ton of new windows still have to be installed.
6th and Locust...
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6th and Locust...
Locust Balconies...
Broadway side...
Among some strong candidates, this has to be the most mutilated building in St. Louis.
^I still vote for the US Bank at Hanley and Forsyth. Underneath this purple awfulness is a handsome, dignified, glass and brick Mid Century gem. I've never been able to find an image from before the renovation.
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An old coworker showed me an image of the original once but I've never been able to find it since. It was a jaw dropping moment. I believe the image was from an AIA St. Louis article.
That bank is in this photo. I tried to find it in the mohistory.org online collection with no luck but I have a feeling it's in there somewhere. Not that this has anything to do with the Mercantile Library building.
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A reader of mine shared these two photos with me. Still lots of work to be done here. The new windows are helping the appearence of the building. Brian Hayden is trying to lure a brewery or a drug store to the 6th and Locust retail space. That will be the only activated street level section on the whole building, which seems like a waste to me. Hopefully, new windows are put in down there and the street level facade is cleaned up. The building already looks rough enough.
https://app.locationone.com/buildings/5 ... 6eb1f0377d
https://app.locationone.com/buildings/5 ... 6eb1f0377d
Some photos I took the other day. The facade needs a good cleaning...
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And then these photos come from the website...
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And about the parking area... weird.
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More here: http://www.stlluxury.com/gallery-villas
And then these photos come from the website...
And about the parking area... weird.
More here: http://www.stlluxury.com/gallery-villas
^ It's like Kramer's "anytown USA" front door. Kind of weird. But novel at the same time.
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I am very perplexed by this building. The units look nice enough and the balconies look better from the units than the street, but my god is this an ugly building. I would've expected...something. Paint? I don't know. Just seems like the outside is a complete afterthought.
If 1014 Locust (Alverne) is any indication, I'd keep my exterior expectations LOW. 1014 still has boarded up windows, a cross mounted to the masonry, wood paneling in place of exhaust grates, tons of brackets and fasteners sticking out of the facade from the old awning(s), and even the address hung over the builder-grade wooden entryway is off center.newstl2020 wrote: I am very perplexed by this building. The units look nice enough and the balconies look better from the units than the street, but my god is this an ugly building. I would've expected...something. Paint? I don't know. Just seems like the outside is a complete afterthought.