Updated April 19 at 1:30 PM with comments from Conrad Wildsmith from St. Louis Immersion Language Schools: St. Louis Language Immersion Schools (SLLIS) will be opening a downtown campus scheduled to be fully operational for the 2012-2013 school year. The school will be going into a former office building at 1881 Pine Street, caddy corner from the future St. Louis [...]
Yes, the NRA (National Rifle Association) is in town but this a COLT of an entire different caliber. Verizon Wireless is bringing out its own pinch-hitter during the Cardinals’ 2012 season home opener to ensure that baseball fans in and around Busch Stadium won’t miss a call or have trouble sending others text, pictures or video highlights about the game. [...]
Enterprise-rent-a-car recently opened a rental center on 23rd Street and Washington in Downtown-West. They are located in a mid-century modern building, connected to the Motor Lofts to the east and situated just a block from Jefferson Avenue to the west. The interior of the building has been completely renovated and exhibits the familiar Enterprise corporate style. The new center is [...]
Today, the section of North Tucker Boulevard between Cass Avenue to the north and Dr. M.L. King Drive to the south has opened for traffic. The roadway consists of two lanes in each direction, separated by a median. The road deck is lined by new sidewalks, new streetlights, trees, and areas for plantings near the crossings. The new street signs [...]
Local Harvest Café, Grocery & Catering, the Morgan Ford staple known for their fresh and seasonal foods, will be expanding into a space on the corner of 9th & Olive Streets in downtown St. Louis. The café will be located in a 3,330 square feet corner space in the Old Post Office, facing northwest with views of the Old Post [...]
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport’s C-Concourse reopened today, after being closed for almost a year because of extensive damage suffered by an EF-4 tornado on Good Friday last year. Not only is the concourse rebuilt, it has also received a complete makeover. The experience is certainly very different, from the moment you enter security. Formerly dimly-lit and cramped, the C-Concourse checkpoint [...]
The St. Louis Business Journal reports that The Mercantile Exchange (MX) development has landed yet another tenant. Takaya New Asian Restaurant will be opening in the fall of this year. The restaurant will seat 120 in a 3,300 square foot space. Restaurant owner Eric Heckman, who operates Tani Sushi Bistro in Clayton will also provide food and beverage consulting for [...]
Bike to My Lou is a free, community-wide bike event scheduled for March 31 in St. Louis’ downtown corridor. Hosted by Griffin Delivery and sponsored by Trailnet, Urban Shark, and the Partnership for Downtown St Louis, it will boast a variety of entertainment and promises to be a blast for all who attend. Bike to My Lou is designed to [...]
Bluebird Network has signed a long-term lease with Digital Realty Trust at 210 North Tucker Boulevard. Bluebird was formed out of a merger between Bluebird Media and Missouri Network Alliance and provides fiber optic services in Missouri, Illinois, and surrounding states. It will build out its own data facility in the building on Tucker to support its network of broadband services. Glenn Benoist, [...]
A new social networking company for Athletes, Lockerdome, will soon be relocating from Westport to office space in downtown St. Louis at 1221 Washington Avenue. Lockerdome, “a Facebook or LinkeIn for Athletes” is the brainchild of founder and CEO Gabe Lozano. Square co-founder Jim McKelvey is part of a group that invested $750,000 in the new technology venture. (McKelvey also [...]
Update on our story from last Wednesday: After a phone conversation with WhoLou.net editor Geoff Whittington, we are strengthened in our conviction that the 700 Market Street building, the former headquarters of the GenAmerica Insurance company, will be developed into a hotel and convention center. We have left messages for Harlan Berger of Centaur Development, the owner of the building, and [...]
Yesterday, nextSTL.com posted my article (read it here) about MidAmerica and Lambert St. Louis Airports and their attempts to establish international cargo hubs. Included in this piece was the following: Recently, a bill was passed by the Missouri House of Representatives. A bill that had been quietly amended by Rep. Anne Zerr, (R) St. Charles. This amendment constituted a 0.1875% [...]
At Count On Downtown our desire to write about developments downtown is based on our conviction that downtown St. Louis is the best neighborhood in the metro area: not just for recreation, entertainment, sports, or even work, but above all to reside in. By writing about happenings in downtown we’re hoping to spike your interest in our neighborhood. Simply put: [...]
Please Join Lafayette Preparatory Academy for its premier fundraiser in celebration of being awarded a Walton Family Foundation Charter Start Up Grant! Enjoy free drinks and appetizers and learn more about this unique and innovative public charter school that will serve residents of downtown and its near south side neighborhoods. Join and support the new charter school and meet the [...]
The City of St. Louis is planning to sell 162 acres, over 1,200 parcels, in North St. Louis to developer Paul Mckee. The price? $3.2Million. Mckee already owns some 800 parcels in North City and this latest deal would give him the opportunity to start realizing his vision of a “Northside Regeneration”. (McKee was also part of a group that [...]
Today will mark the start of negotiations between the St. Louis Rams and the Convention & Visitors Commission (CVC). The CVC will present the Rams with a plan that will include their vision on how to elevate the Edward Jones Dome to “top tier” NFL territory. According to the lease agreement, the dome has to offer a better experience than [...]
Good times last Tuesday night at our New Year’s reception at Park Pacific in downtown St. Louis. Big thanks to Mayor Francis Slay for stopping by and staying for over an hour. Also in attendance: bloggers NextSTL, Gateway Streets and STLEnergized; St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalists Tim Bryant and Tim Logan; Tim Eby from St. Louis Public Radio, and, of course, [...]
Last Wednesday, the CityArchRiver 2015 Foundation presented their latest update about the plans to renovate the Arch Grounds. It wasn’t good. Most lacking in the presentation was energy. It almost felt like the speakers had to be dragged onto the stage to speak about their part in the total effort. The crowd seemed generally bored, and despite the notion that [...]
