I assume you're talking about Building C (7676 Forsyth), rather than the older Building B (7700 Forsyth) across Hanley, right?symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Feb 16, 2022At least when it first opened Centene had everything up to the "fourteenth" floor and everything above that was leased out. (My wife was on the thirteenth, I mean fourteenth floor. She's since changed positions and so I've no idea where she'd be if/when she ever goes back to the office.)jshank83 wrote: ↑Feb 15, 2022How much of Centenes office towers is actually Centene? Don’t they lease a bunch of it out?
Just thinking If there is demand for office space in Clayton they could build and lease it.
Populous was a division of HOK until 2009. It was previously called HOK+SVE (which stood for HOK Sport Venue Event). The principals of the SVE division traded their HOK stock for independent ownership of the subsidiary stadium architectural design firm. At the time Busch Stadium III was designed, it was still a division of HOK.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Feb 17, 2022^And I think Populous and HOK traded more than a few employees.
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Stray Rescue has acquired a new property and appears set to move out of Downtown West in the next 3-5 years which would open up more development space in the Stadium district.
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Fast forward ten years and this entire area is going to look and feel so different. I doubt anybody could recognize it.
I wonder if they owned that or were leasing? I’ll miss seeing the dogs being walked.Black02AltimaSE wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2022Stray Rescue has acquired a new property and appears set to move out of Downtown West in the next 3-5 years which would open up more development space in the Stadium district.
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They owned the Pine Street location. I was donated to them by A.G. Edwards.
I hope they flipped it for a profit and that can be plowed back in to the new location and/or operations.Black02AltimaSE wrote: ↑Mar 24, 2022They owned the Pine Street location. I was donated to them by A.G. Edwards.
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New location will be much better for them, not just the size of the building but have 2 large green spaces in front of the building
As a kid my dad used to bowl at Western Bowl just down the block. Makes me sad to see it now.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 25, 2022New location will be much better for them, not just the size of the building but have 2 large green spaces in front of the building
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Hasn’t been closed that long, I used to bowl there are a 7th and 8th grader in late 90s. Is it still a post office? As late as pre covid the western bowl sign up was up at the corner
I thought Western Bowl bit it in like 2000?dweebe wrote: ↑Mar 25, 2022As a kid my dad used to bowl at Western Bowl just down the block. Makes me sad to see it now.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Mar 25, 2022New location will be much better for them, not just the size of the building but have 2 large green spaces in front of the building
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That's right by the our Winter League Kickball fields. Good proximity to Civil Life. Volunteers won't go thirsty!
SLDC has some Brickline documents up, just the portion along the stadium. You can see the outline of the historic homes for the Mill Creek memorial.
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I don't think it looks that bad. I actually kind of like the outlining of past buildings.
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^ Each of the granite monuments will have the name of a former Mill Creek resident and a quote from them. I think it's pretty well done.
Wow. Grotesque and bizarre and kind of embarrassing for SC City. At least it looks okay.sc4mayor wrote: ↑Mar 27, 2022I don't think it looks that bad. I actually kind of like the outlining of past buildings.
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Why is this grotesque and bizarre? I'm not understanding the criticism here. Would people rather this just be a larger concrete plaza instead??
The plaza looks nice. Certainly better than "a larger concrete plaza." For an organization to level half a block of historic buildings along Olive, replace it with a city block sized parking garage with no street activation, in other words, something directly out of the misguided urban renewal playbook, and then build a half block "memorial" plaza to a lost neighborhood showing the footprints of buildings that were leveled is hypocrisy at its worst. Absolutely grotesque and bizarre.Laife Fulk wrote: ↑Mar 28, 2022Why is this grotesque and bizarre? I'm not understanding the criticism here. Would people rather this just be a larger concrete plaza instead??
"Look how thoughtful, and considerate, and deferential we are to the urban fabric and history. Just look at the southwest corner of our development, not the northeast." -SC City
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Right - they should have never torn down those buildings along Olive. But this plaza is just fine for what it needs to be. Helps extend the Brickline west, isn't a giant concrete slab, and includes some thoughtful public art / monument.