^ the Metropolitan project is looking amazing! residential here is REALLY going to increase the level of activity in Grand Center and the Locust Ave Business District.
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Originally Posted by DeBaliviere
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.
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it was indeed in the Metropolitan, DeBaliviere. there's a great 1960 aerial shot of the intersection from the roof of the Continental Life Building -- showing a fully built-out intersection before SLU demolished the entire southern half -- on page 35 of
Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis: A Sentimental Journal (highly recommended by the way). i much prefer Walgreen's vintage neon signs to the current strip mall du jour.