I think most associate Wells Fargo with Downtown but it's technically in Midtown so I'm placing this here.  From today's paper, it appears that Wells Fargo is emptying out two of it's older buildings and placing more employees in the other buildings around their campus.  It also sounds like hundreds of more jobs are coming too and St. Louis is likely to continue to play a big roll for Wells Fargo for the foreseeable future.  Could be an opportunity to finally redevelop the corner of Jefferson and Market into something resembling a city.

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local ... e2d44.html

Edit: 5/22, changed thread title.

aprice wrote: ↑

Oct 26, 2018

It would be really nice to see some streetscape retail retrofit on their campus. Especially with all of the changes going on on each side of Jefferson just to the north and the changes going on on Locust.
Another odd thing about their campus, there's a ground level passageway / gateway in their building that aligns with Pine St even though Pine never extended west of Jefferson. I wonder if they planned a driveway there and never put it in. Would be a cool continuation of the street grid if the connected Pine to Beaumont there. Preferably as mostly pedestrian brick lane like Beaumont is.
A few years ago I talked to a guy that worked there and said that the brutalist building nearest Market & Jefferson has been vacant for a while and needs asbestos abatement. Not sure how much truth there is/was to that but that building does seem kind of sleepy when I pass by.

Bright minds think alike lol. After reading the article this morning I opened up Google Earth and was looking over what I'd change about their campus and just about everything you said was what I had thought of. It does appear that Pine moves a bit west of Jefferson but then stops at what looks like some HVAC stuff. I'd love to see Pine extended through and I think their garages, especially the one at Olive and Jefferson would be a prime place for some retail expansion on the first floor. I'd like to see some of those surface lots built on too. WF has a massive garage across Market that could likely absorb some of that surface parking.

Those two on the northwest corner of Jefferson and Market are the two they are vacating, and if the asbestos issue is true then hopefully they'll just knock them down and then maybe a hotelier could put a distinctive hotel and conference center that WF would surely use (and maybe even some future soccer fans).

STLrainbow wrote: ↑

Oct 27, 2018

^ Anyone have a pic of the second unoccupied building referencef? I'm a bit unclear.

I'm generally fine with what's there North of Market if it can be redeveloped but what I really hope happens is the massive parking zone on the SW corner where the hotel used to be gets redeveloped in an ideally mixed-use manner. MSD HQ across the street kinda sucks but not sure what can be done about that. Anyway, looks like there is some good potential for the Jefferson/Market intersection to become much more vibrant down the road.

These are the two.

Not a whole lot of detail yet...but this could be big in the future.  Wells Fargo has sold the two buildings at 2601 Market to Green Street.  Green Street is taking a "wait and see" approach considering the current economic situation.  I think Green Street owning these properties significantly increases the likelihood that something urban in form could eventually come to the corner of Jefferson and Market.

Wells Fargo sells off part of St. Louis campus
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... s_headline

^ I was under the impression it was both buildings but considering the atrium connection to the stepped building it may just be the building closest to Market.

I wouldn’t expect preservation here, but I’m no expert either. Lack of windows aside, the asbestos issues aren’t going to be cheap to remediate either. Anything is possible though. I’d rather sacrifice this building for better street level activation, whether that be more office space, a hotel/conference center (which had been floated previously), or apartments...or some combination of mixed uses. This part of the city is just so suburban. With the removal of all that unnecessary highway infrastructure, the new stadium, and hopefully in the future some additional developments around that, this area could start to resemble something like a city. Especially if Wells Fargo is open to selling excess space on the edges of its campus, which they appear to be. You have a ready made anchor with over 5,000 jobs (and growing) to get something rolling in this area.

Chris posted these over in the Jefferson Connector thread, but some renderings were released for the hotel at the corner of Jefferson and Market. Looks like Building C that connects with the atrium will remain.

dweebe wrote: ↑

May 20, 2022

Is it just me or does it look like all new construction? Maybe they decided that building at the SE corner of the complex was unusable?

Looks like the "L" shaped building at the corner will be fully replaced with the Kimpton.  The Staybridge looks to be a combination of new construction and renovation of the building connecting to the stepped tower.  You can still make out the brick accents from the circled building in the background of the Staybridge rendering.




All in all a pretty great project if it happens.  Leaves just enough room for a nice landscaped Brickline connection between MLS and Harris-Stowe too.