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That would have been sweet! Shame it didn't make the cut.

^They would have had such a glorious view of traffic on Forest Park Parkway.

^Aw, c'mon now. On the south or east side of the building if you're on the upper floors you'll also have a view of the central west end, Forest Park, and downtown St. Louis. On the north or west side of the building you'll get a nice closeup of downtown Clayton. Sure, there's a cute little highway. But it's not the nasty, noisy, stinky of 70 or even 40. A little slower, a little less busy. A lot fewer trucks. And as long as you get above it you get compensated. Only half the building anyway, and the more people use the train the fewer use that highway. Maybe someday if it becomes superfluous it can become a linear park.

^ RIP...

We were all just waiting on getting something with a formed and painted concrete back facing the river, though.  Let's be real.

That project should have just been plopped on the low rise Millennium section.

St. Louis World Trade Building designed by Edward J. Thias

Elek.borrelli wrote:St. Louis World Trade Building designed by Edward J. Thias

Would this have been downtown or in Clayton?

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Sep 26, 2020

Elek.borrelli wrote:St. Louis World Trade Building designed by Edward J. Thias

Would this have been downtown or in Clayton?

Downtown. I believe it would've been where the Millenium is on the block bound by 4th, Walnut, Spruce, and Memorial. I'm not 100% sure.

Elek.borrelli wrote: ↑

Sep 26, 2020

A much larger version of Mansion House

At grade boulevard with underpass from Luther Ely Smith park into what looks like Arch grounds.  St. Louis has been thinking about this for decades.

Good finds! 

An earlier version of 4545 Lindell, which was built with a different design: 

So a little bit of intel that I had confirmed by several people, there was a 14-story apartment, parking garage, and retail building proposed on the parking lot at the Northwest corner of 10th and Lucas. This would've been the third new construction downtown project that I was aware of if it was announced.

A local developer, won't say who but you all would know the name, was proposing the building as a result of an RFP issued by the SLDC. The project was canned after the developer raised concerns over the City of St. Louis (those concerns were mentioned in a recent Business Journal Article). At this point in time, the 14-story building is dead. 

No other developers responded to the RFP. If the developer is willing to sell the plans to another developer, then I think that development could be facilitated by the SLDC because of the RFP. After all, the garage was to serve the Convention Center after the expansion and the apartments and retail components were to activate the area a little bit.

^Interesting.  I'd love to see a larger version of that pic if available.

Not sure where it's from. I found it on the St Louis memories and vintage photos Facebook page

I wonder if it was an early concept for Busch II from Stone. Alternately, maybe it was a proposal from the developers of Mansion House etc. for a project south of Market, since the site of the Stouffers/Clarion/Renaissance looks so nearly identical to its counterpart to the north. (On the other hand, basic International Style boxes could just be filler.) The mammoth structure tying together garages and tower blocks along Clark is also interesting. That looks to be something like sixteen blocks tied into a single development. I'm counting six bridges across Clark in about a three block span. Anyway you slice it it's definitely interesting.