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Originally Posted by FrenchTwins
Finally, one of the eyesores of grand center is being renovated! There is currently a construction elevator on the outside and trash chutes have been erected. Construction workers are moving around quite a bit in the grand center area lately.
http://www.stltoday.com/business/col...9bb30f31a.html
70 artist lofts and hopefully ground floor retail of some kind. From someone who has lived in the grand center for 3 years, I think nothing would be better for that area than a small grocery store or walgreens/cvs. That would be the closest to SLU and the residents of grand center. There's too many pricey restaurants to be sustainable with the income of the residents (and students) that actually live in the area.
EDIT: I found a rendering of what the building is going to look like from the architect's facebook page. Its kind of fuzzy but from the looks of it, it has a retail structure and it looks like a parking entrance where there is currently just a parking lot (to the right of the building)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...ype=1&theater# |
Looks like a new, one-story infill building will go in between the Metropolitan and the Centene Center.
IIRC, back when I was a little kid, there used to be a Walgreens on Grand. I can't remember if it was in the Metropolitan or in some other building.