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It’s been almost two years since the Washington Avenue skybridge between the old St. Louis Centre and the abandoned Dillard’s department store fell.  Since then, a lot has happened at the Mercantile Exchange (MX) district. Let’s take a look at the transformation that’s taken place on the eastern end of downtown’s entertainment strip. The famed Lindell Hotel once stood where [...]

Citygarden, downtown St. Louis’ gem on the Gateway Mall,  is so pleasing and attractive that it’s easy to experience it without mining all it has to offer.  That’s why a new app the garden introduced May 1 is going to be so significant for thousands of visitors. The new app, which is free, is downloadable from the iTunes App Store [...]

Last Saturday the latest installment of Cinco de Mayo took place on Cherokee Street. One of St. Louis’ premier photographers, Ben Evans, was there to shoot this truly multicultural event. We let the photos speak for themselves. Tip: If you want to wind down after a busy day we suggest checking out the hundreds of awe-inspiring photos of St. Louis’ [...]

  On a rainy, gloomy Saturday morning, why was I hanging out of the Culinaria parking ramp taking a picture of the view down Olive Street? Because it made me smile. Because it inspired me, made me happy and lifted my black mood. I’d spent the previous 45 minutes muttering under my breath, seething with anger and irritation over a [...]

The newest occupant on Cherokee Street is going to be a big hit.  It would be very difficult to walk by without doing a little window shopping, oooh-ing and ahh-ing at the cute faces looking back.  Tenth Life Cat Rescue has moved in! Tenth Life is a non-profit cat rescue founded in 2009 by Elizabeth Frick.  Her focus is to [...]

Update Tuesday 2:30 PM: Mayor Slay and Airport Director Hamm-Niebruegge announced that Solar impulse will make a stop at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in late May, early June. Stay tuned. Lambert will be among only four stops – Phoenix, Dallas, Washington, DC  are the other three – on its flight from San Francisco to New York. Update Monday 3:40 pm: [...]

This afternoon we wandered to Laclede’s Landing to take a look at the cresting Mississippi River. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the river reached a level of 35.4 feet today – 5.4 feet over flood stage and just 2.5 feet shy of the all-time record level of the great flood of 1993. The flooding didn’t seem to have caused [...]

Spring is (kind of) in the air. This means we can go back to exploring on foot what’s happening in downtown St. Louis. The other day we had a chance to take some photos of the work in progress at Ballpark Village. The good news is that the project finally seems to move along swiftly. Dirt is being moved and [...]

Today, downtown proper’s first microbrewery, Alpha Brewing Co., opened on Lucas Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets in the back of the building of the 1st Financial Federal Credit Union and Lindenwood University’s downtown classrooms.  The entrance to the building is a block east of Citymuseum and just south of Europe Night Club. Before entering the actual brewery, one will [...]

[Reporting: Werner Budding | camera and editing: Pieter van Gend | Autovisie/De Telegraaf]   Yes, Count On Downtown is about St. Louis, but once in a while I like to stray. This is one of those times. As an expat/immigrant from the Netherlands I read many articles from across the pond. I stumbled upon this interesting video by auto magazine [...]

The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium opened a few weeks ago in the beautifully renovated Cupples 9 building at 900 Spruce Street. Here at Count On Downtown the verdict is in: We like it. We like it a lot. First of all, it’s big. Besides plenty of space inside, there is a huge deck on the east side, as well as [...]

Most downtown dwellers must have been pondering: “When will this N. Tucker Boulevard project be finally finished?” Well, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. The old Illinois railroad trench underneath North Tucker has been filled with foam and the road deck is now being laid down. The $33.8 million project commenced in June 2010, although part of the [...]

Chicago is working on connecting itself to its riverfront. CDOT Commissioner Gabe Klein touted the Chicago Riverwalk as an addition to the city’s sustainable transportation network, breaking down the barriers between Wacker Drive and the waterway. The pedestrian walkway will help connect people to water taxis, bike-share kiosks, buses and trains, as well as recreational boating, he said. “This will be [...]

St. Louis-based TAGG Logistics, a third-party distribution, fulfillment and logistics provider to mid-sized manufacturers, is consolidating its three St. Louis locations into a single, expanded logistics center. Scheduled to open in April, the new facility will increase the company’s capacity by 35 percent and feature high-volume material handling equipment and a state-of-the-art warehouse management system. The new facility will use [...]

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Mayor Slay has made it clear: He wants St. Louis to become a more sustainable city. His plans are laid out in his Sustainability Action Agenda. Some of you might shiver when hearing the word sustainability. Solyndra (there, I said it) comes to mind, and other hugely expensive programs that have not always proved to be successful. This doesn’t mean [...]