Saw they're taking down the Lumiere Casino large digital billboards that can be seen from the highway. Anyone know if they're replacing them or if they'll just be gone?
I would assume replace. Have you ever seen a subtle casino that doesn't need to blast things in your face? The old billboard did seem to be having tons of issues.flipz wrote: ↑Apr 20, 2022Saw they're taking down the Lumiere Casino large digital billboards that can be seen from the highway. Anyone know if they're replacing them or if they'll just be gone?
Probably replacing for the rebranding.flipz wrote: ↑Apr 20, 2022Saw they're taking down the Lumiere Casino large digital billboards that can be seen from the highway. Anyone know if they're replacing them or if they'll just be gone?
A business is a business but another Hookah store is blah! We need more creativity specially Downtown West.Colin Marc wrote:Social Treats just opened today on Washington Ave.
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I was reading a Marcus and Millichap 2Q 2022 market report for Multifamily. It stated “St. Louis’ strong connection to financial services, including headquartering Edward Jones Investments downtown, has spearheaded the return to in-person work and recovery of the professional and business services sector.”
Do they know something we don’t?
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Downtown is very active this afternoon. Cardinals fans walking around, lots of people in suits on their lunch hour, food trucks, and even saw some live music in the old post office plaza
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Sometimes a nice reality check to hear posts like this. Easy to get caught up in the "Downtown is dead, everyone has moved to Clayton or 270". I'm as bad as anyone for it.CG91 wrote: ↑Apr 27, 2022Downtown is very active this afternoon. Cardinals fans walking around, lots of people in suits on their lunch hour, food trucks, and even saw some live music in the old post office plaza
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Irony here is if you want to see a dead downtown go to Clayton at 5pmSuburban Sprawl wrote: ↑Apr 27, 2022Sometimes a nice reality check to hear posts like this. Easy to get caught up in the "Downtown is dead, everyone has moved to Clayton or 270". I'm as bad as anyone for it.CG91 wrote: ↑Apr 27, 2022Downtown is very active this afternoon. Cardinals fans walking around, lots of people in suits on their lunch hour, food trucks, and even saw some live music in the old post office plaza
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Yep - We had all of our team in the office today and we walked out to lunch at Pickles. Line out the door (we got there early enough). Walked by the old Post Office plaza on the way back to the office. A new hire from metro Chicago settled in Metro East and commented it was the busiest they'd seen downtown in their 3 weeks with us.CG91 wrote: ↑Apr 27, 2022Downtown is very active this afternoon. Cardinals fans walking around, lots of people in suits on their lunch hour, food trucks, and even saw some live music in the old post office plaza
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She uses the metro and laughs at those that gasp in response. She tells of stories of the things she'd see at metro stations in Chicago. She thinks our system looks safe yet underutilized.
There was some work today at the old May Department store. Not sure what they were doing.
I am also hearing rumblings of a surface lot on the north side of downtown going away and being replaced with a 10 story garage. I am guessing that is the result of the loss of the old C9 garage, the expansion of the convention center and perhaps the elimination of the garage on the east side of the convention center? The new garage is supposed to have ground level retail / restaurants.
Yes, check out the thread on thatSTLCityMike wrote: ↑Apr 28, 2022I am also hearing rumblings of a surface lot on the north side of downtown going away and being replaced with a 10 story garage. I am guessing that is the result of the loss of the old C9 garage, the expansion of the convention center and perhaps the elimination of the garage on the east side of the convention center? The new garage is supposed to have ground level retail / restaurants.
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Downtown has been bustling a lot recently, even when the Cards aren't in town. Had a wait at uKraft both times I went last week.
I wonder where all the Reigns protectors are going to say now? Reigns folks didn’t even showed up to court.
Downtown is doing better after this place closed. There’s a lot that needs to be done but this was the nest of violence in Downtown before it hot closed.
ST. LOUIS — A judge on Wednesday ordered former downtown nightspot Reign to pay its landlord nearly $340,000 in rent and attorney's fees after nobody from the restaurant showed up for a scheduled trial.
Reign, which was evicted from its building at 1122 Washington Avenue in October after the city deemed it a "threat to public safety," will now be required to pay about $257,000 in rent and $82,700 in attorney's fees to Copia Acquisitions LLC.
Copia argued in court filings the restaurant was first notified in September 2020 that it was behind on rent, but Reign continued to operate out of the building for about a year without paying the full amount.
Reign's owner, Dana Kelly, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another suit between Copia Acquisitions and Reign is still pending. That proceeding argues Reign owes at least $387,000 in interest and damages after it left the building with torn-out or destroyed cabinets, freezers, coolers, toilets, ovens, doors and gas fireplaces, among other items.
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Downtown is doing better after this place closed. There’s a lot that needs to be done but this was the nest of violence in Downtown before it hot closed.
ST. LOUIS — A judge on Wednesday ordered former downtown nightspot Reign to pay its landlord nearly $340,000 in rent and attorney's fees after nobody from the restaurant showed up for a scheduled trial.
Reign, which was evicted from its building at 1122 Washington Avenue in October after the city deemed it a "threat to public safety," will now be required to pay about $257,000 in rent and $82,700 in attorney's fees to Copia Acquisitions LLC.
Copia argued in court filings the restaurant was first notified in September 2020 that it was behind on rent, but Reign continued to operate out of the building for about a year without paying the full amount.
Reign's owner, Dana Kelly, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another suit between Copia Acquisitions and Reign is still pending. That proceeding argues Reign owes at least $387,000 in interest and damages after it left the building with torn-out or destroyed cabinets, freezers, coolers, toilets, ovens, doors and gas fireplaces, among other items.
https://www.stltoday.com/business/local ... 4403f.html
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Airbnb will be in town on Monday for a press conference about their plan to fix party issues in their downtown rentals.
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That's a start but I suspect that a lot of the large parties in short term rentals don't go through AirBnB.
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Idk what they’re doing in town but some German soldiers were in downtown today, later on I saw them going to the Arch
I was heading to the Cards game on Friday and caught glimpse of a radically changed Broadway @ Chestnut intersection. I can't believe how fast they moved on the old Calecos space!
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Honestly if they could update the entire lower facade of both garages in the same manner and get good tenants they wouldn’t look horrific anymore as a pedestrian at least…SRQ2STL wrote:I was heading to the Cards game on Friday and caught glimpse of a radically changed Broadway @ Chestnut intersection. I can't believe how fast they moved on the old Calecos space!
I wish they would just update the façade cladding or perhaps consider some sort of large scale artistic mural. Those gigantic beige panels are the very worst feature of downtown. Some things that can be done:LArchitecture wrote: ↑May 01, 2022Honestly if they could update the entire lower facade of both garages in the same manner and get good tenants they wouldn’t look horrific anymore as a pedestrian at least…SRQ2STL wrote:I was heading to the Cards game on Friday and caught glimpse of a radically changed Broadway @ Chestnut intersection. I can't believe how fast they moved on the old Calecos space!
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Oh of course I agree. I am just stating cost effectively doing the lower portion would at least make the pedestrian feel better.SRQ2STL wrote:I wish they would just update the façade cladding or perhaps consider some sort of large scale artistic mural. Those gigantic beige panels are the very worst feature of downtown. Some things that can be done:LArchitecture wrote: ↑May 01, 2022Honestly if they could update the entire lower facade of both garages in the same manner and get good tenants they wouldn’t look horrific anymore as a pedestrian at least…SRQ2STL wrote:I was heading to the Cards game on Friday and caught glimpse of a radically changed Broadway @ Chestnut intersection. I can't believe how fast they moved on the old Calecos space!
It seems they're leaving it up to the individual tenants...which is plain stupid. At least establish a design frame all new tenants must follow, in effort to keep things uniform and tidy. But hell. Any improvement is an improvement at this point! haha Thanks Chase Bank for your tiny slice of a fresh coat of paint and updated lighting! x-DLArchitecture wrote: ↑May 01, 2022Oh of course I agree. I am just stating cost effectively doing the lower portion would at least make the pedestrian feel better.SRQ2STL wrote:I wish they would just update the façade cladding or perhaps consider some sort of large scale artistic mural. Those gigantic beige panels are the very worst feature of downtown. Some things that can be done:LArchitecture wrote: ↑May 01, 2022Honestly if they could update the entire lower facade of both garages in the same manner and get good tenants they wouldn’t look horrific anymore as a pedestrian at least…
Wow; the Bank if America tower looks awful. It's even worse than I expected. They destroyed a classic example of 70s/80s architecture and replaced it with a boring box. Thirty years from now they're gonna have to spend millions to restore it back the way it was.
Just say NO to re-claddings.
Just say NO to re-claddings.
Those parking garages will always be terrible. But, yeah, that Chase makes it slightly betterLArchitecture wrote: ↑May 01, 2022Honestly if they could update the entire lower facade of both garages in the same manner and get good tenants they wouldn’t look horrific anymore as a pedestrian at least…SRQ2STL wrote:I was heading to the Cards game on Friday and caught glimpse of a radically changed Broadway @ Chestnut intersection. I can't believe how fast they moved on the old Calecos space!