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Plans and Proposals

• St. Louis Aquarium
   
  
  The World Aquarium at The St. Louis Arena was the latest attempt to try and bring a great aquarium to the city St. Louis. Just about every major city in the US has an aquarium, doesn't that mean we should too? Why not something different, something that draws on one of our greatest assets, an alternative to an aquarium downtown. With St. Louis being at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, what about the world's first - and greatest - river museum!
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Monday, August 10, 1998
    
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• Plans to revitalize downtown St. Louis
   
  
  Sverdrup Corp. is circulating a new plan to link the Old Court House with the Gateway Arch grounds by placing a few blocks of Memorial Drive and Interstate 70 underground. While others think of apartments and condominium buildings rising on the riverfront, just north of Laclede's Landing, and more apartments, restaurants and galleries in the emerging residential loft district along Washington Avenue.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Thursday, November 12, 1998
    
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  • Sverdrup circulates new plan to link Old Courthouse, Arch grounds
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    Science Center's Five-Year Plan
    
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; posted February 20, 1997
     
    St. Louis Zoo's 'Vision of the Future'
    
  • St. Louis Zoo Foundation plans to raise $25.5 million
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    The Endangered Buildings Tour
    
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Downtown Living

• Housing
   
  
  Residential development is starting to grow downtown. Since the creation of the very popular Art Lofts, Saint Louis has not been able to keep up with the demand for residential space downtown. Very recently, the city was fortunate enough to have someone, like Donald Breckenridge, to save the Edison Building from certain demolishion. The Edison Building will include residential space in its mixed use renovation. The newest addition to list of residential projects is the Marquette Building. If everything goes as planned, someone looking for an apartment in the heart of downtown can move in as early a next fall. Right now there are nine projects in the loft district alone; the largest being the historic, long-vacant Sporting News building. The Sporting News building is about to become the largest loft housing project on Washington Avenue. St. Louis estimates that 469 new housing units can be built and absorbed downtown each year.
   
  
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Hotel Construction and Renovation

• Cupples Station
   
  
  A group that wants to bring some of what's in the Smithsonian Institution's attic into downtown St. Louis took a big step in that direction. In a recent letter to the Smithsonian, Alan Bornstein said that as many as three of the 10 now-vacant, historic Cupples Station warehouses are available for museum exhibits and activities. Baron plans to renovate others for offices, housing and shops. Three other buildings are to be renovated by Westin Hotels and Resorts in a project that will include at least three of the Cupples Station warehouses. Westin Hotels plans to build an upscale hotel in three of the warehouses and a fourth warehouse may be demolished to make way for another building that will also be a part of the new hotel.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Thursday, August 06, 1998
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  • Saint Louis Front Page; New Life for Cupples Station
     
    
• Marriott Renaissance
   
  
  Renovation on the Gateway and Lennox hotels and construction on the building in the vacant lot adjacent to the Gateway should start by the end of the year and open in 2001. The new convention hotel will cost an estimated $190 million and add 1,000 more badly needed hotel rooms to the downtown area.
   
  
  • Mercantile Bank of St. Louis leads hotel financing
    
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• Fur Exchange
   
  
  Charles Drury is renovating the Fur Exchange and other adjacent buildings
   
  
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• Edison Building
   
  
  Donald Breckinridge plans to create a 300-suite hotel within the Edison Buiding. The building will also incorporate a restaurant and two floors of condominium apartments.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Thursday, June 11, 1998
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• Chase-Park Plaza
   
  
  Chase-Park Plaza won't reopen in early November as had been announced, but they are hoping to open in December or January. Of the hotel's five cinema screens on the main floor, at least one screen should be open as a venue for the St. Louis Film Festival, which runs October 29th thru November 08th. This should be the last in a long string of delays.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Sunday, October 11, 1998
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Adaptive Reuse

• Saint Louis Arena
   
  
  The Saint Louis Arena will follow in the footsteps of many other Saint Louis buildings. The Arena built in 1929, nearly seventy years ago, will be demolished this summer to make way for a mixed-use office park; a $1 million state grant will assist the project. Spirtas Wrecking Co. has been awarded a contract to raze The Arena. Officials want Spirtas to complete demolition of The Arena in six months. The World Aquarium at The St. Louis Arena is now just a dream. Many say the Arena would have been too large for any type of aquarium. The Arena would have needed millions of dollars in repairs and was costing the tax payers around $50,000 every month on a $6 million mortgage. The city is considering selling the site to Balke Properties for about $9 million.
   
  
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• Kiel Opera House
   
  
  Empty since 1992, the Kiel Opera House has been considered for many uses. It has just undergone a $100,000 study by the Urban Land Institute. One proposal is to use the Opera House for housing borrowed artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution. Another proposal was to use the Opera House as a Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame and Museum, similar to Cleveland's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Both proposals are fine, but Kiel Partners - now called Clark Enterprises - should keep their promise to renovate the Opera House as an opera house.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Tuesday, December 08, 1998
    
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  • Raise the curtain on Kiel Opera House
    
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Monday, February 23, 1998
    
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• Old Post Office
   
  
  Who will move into the Old Post Office when the federal employees, who occupy 80 percent of the upper three floors, move to the new Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse?
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Thursday, June 25, 1998
    
  
  
• Saint Louis City Hospital
   
  
  The Saint Louis City Hospital's fate is drawing near. A plan to revitalize the area calls for the first demolition of the near by Darst-Webbe project by fall. The City Hospital complex would either be renovated or razed. The St. Louis City Hospital Historical Society (SLCHHS) was established to preserve City Hospital for better purposes than demolition. To find out more, contact Michael Allen or visit the Saint Louis City Hospital Web site, maintained by Michael Allen of Preservation Central.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Tuesday, November 17, 1998
    
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• Edison Building
   
  
  Danyail Jackson's plans for a multi-use Edison Building might have fallen through, but when the Allright Parking Co. planned to move forward with their plans to demolish the building Donald Breckinridge stepped up. The building is to under go a $20 million transformation and will become a great place to buy, eat and sleep in Saint Louis.
  
  
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Restoration

• Saint Louis City Hall
   
  
  Saint Louis City Hall is a beautiful French Renaissance style building. Saint Louis City Hall is similar to the City Hall in Paris, France (which was built in 1532). Clean-up efforts have already begun on the exterior, and soon, it will be one of many newly lit St. Louis architechtural gems.
   
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Tuesday, June 16, 1998
    
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• Eads Bridge
   
  
  The Eads bridge could be open as early as next year, but will it incorporate a bike or pedestrian lane as hoped? As it stands right now, there will not be a bike lane on the bridge because Joseph Kruss, president of the Board of Public Services, says that nobody can prove the demand for it exists. If you would like to see a bike lane on the Eads bridge,

  contact:

  Mayor Clarence Harmon 1200 Market Street Room 200 Saint Louis, MO 63103

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• Forest Park
   
  
  What is happening to get Forest Park ready for the 100 year anniversary of the 1904 World's Fair and the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase? A master plan has been developed that will include the restoration of a river system that was buried in preporation for the 1904 World's Fair as well as the restoration of the World's Fair Pavilion. The cost of the project is estimated at $86,000,000, coming from both public and private sectors.
  
  
  • Forest Park... For A Year
    
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Friday, June 19, 1998
    
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Friday, June 12, 1998
    
  • Saint Louis Front Page; Forest Park Forever
    

  What's New?

• The Saint Louis Zoo is historically a leader in natural exhibits, and today an active participant in wildlife conservation. With the recent Grand Opening of the new Emerson Electric Children's Zoo on May 16th, an Insectarium scheduled to open in 2000 and now the rebuilding of what will be called "The River's Edge", the Saint Louis Zoo will always remain a great place to be. The first phase of construction on the The River's Edge, planned for completion in summer 1999, includes a compound for Asian elephants as well as a separate facility for bull elephants like Ra ja, who is 5 years old. Summer 2000 is the target for completion of the second phase of construction. That will include the Monsanto Insectarium as well as the River Camp Banquet Facility.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Tuesday, October 27, 1998
  
   
  
• New owners plan to reopen riverboat restaurant here. Plans are moving full steam ahead for the reopening of the Robert E. Lee Restaurant boat along the St. Louis riverfront by next summer.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Monday, October 19, 1998
  
   
  
• Construction for a downtown transportation hub in St. Louis is set to begin in early 1999, now that the money for the project is ready.
   
  
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Monday, October 26, 1998
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Thursday, October 02, 1997