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1300 Market Street is planned for the burgeoning Gateway Mall corridor, which will include the newly-renovated Peabody Opera House, the renovated Central Library, and Park Pacific development. Also, plans are underway to improve the western end of the Gateway Mall.
Heisman Properties of Los Angeles will spend $40 million to redevelop the building and the plans include retail and office space on the ground floor, cultural/gallery space and office on the first floor and office space on the second and third floors. In addition to the interior spaces, plans call for several walkways, courtyards, plazas and terraces to surround the building. Once completed this project will act as a conduit between both the civic and cultural communities tying many recent downtown developments together. It will be the centerpiece of an area that will be a destination featuring the Scottrade Center, soon-to-be-redeveloped Kiel Opera House, the Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center and the revitalized mall.
The 170,000 square foot renowned courthouse is located at 1300 Market Street and was constructed in 1911 for $1,000,000. The architect was Isaac Taylor, who was well-known in St. Louis and chief architect of the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, as well as many significant buildings in St. Louis including the Jefferson Memorial, the Bee Hat Building and Hadley Square.
The sculpture over the Market St. entrance represents "Truth and Justice".