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Originally Posted by Arch City
1. Love the 1st pitch video. Nice clean scenes - not over-the-top.
2. Love the fact that it would be majority-women owned.
3. Don't like the location - AT ALL. The Riverfront - next to LaClede's Landing - to me - is a perfect fit.
4. Although accessible by MetroLink, Union Station location seems too cramped.
5. Don't like the location, but it does offer great potential for surrounding development to take place. Same with The Riverfront too.
6. I like the stadium's design - even though it appears to be conceptual.
7. There should be soccer park "village" with residential - a smaller version of Ballpark Village.
8. Before (and when) this goes through, the city should be ramping up talks for a "Below-Grand Boulevard" Downtown Streetcar. It would hit Wash Ave, Ballpark Village, Enterprise Center, The Riverfront, Union Station and Downtown West.
Just my two cents.  |
if that end of downtown weren't pretty close to jane jacobs worst nightmare (with the interchange/sunken expressway stub and the damage from urban renewal) i'd agree. i think more people probably interact with this area than north of lacledes landing, and it's really a mess. the stadium could really help to give it some life...i typically don't agree upon relying on megaprojects for that but this area could hardly get any worse, and it's such a high profile area within the central corridor.
i think it just seems like it might be cramped because of all of the large, horizontal structures, but i don't think that will be the case after completion. it's the most blown out, uncomfortably spacious section of the central corridor right now. i walked across market at night not long ago from the north, watching some trash blow like tumbleweeds from the lots. the area is a festering urban-design wound as-is, with a spectacular piece of 19th century architecture suffering at the edge of it.