(178,78,2,2,1211224659,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"78\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-19 09:10 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"St.  Louis Riverfront Plans\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:25:\"st_louis_riverfront_plans\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:49:\"The St. Louis Riverfront: What\\\'s  the Attraction\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:806:\"After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.\n\nWhat follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:56:\"riverfront, plan, Danforth, Disney, architects, planners\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:16857:\"<p>The St. Louis Riverfront:<br />What\\\'s the Attraction?<br /><br />Now that the South leg tram is repaired, visitors to St. Louis can once again travel to the top of the Gateway Arch and back down to the bottom. But a question that\\\'s been up in the air since the last piece of the catenary curve was put into place remains: Where do they go from there? A lot of creative minds have wrestled with that problem of St. Louis\\\' riverfront over the decades... including the creator of Mickey Mouse. <br /><br />Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any city until St. Louis leaders approached him in 1963. Disney pursued his proposed project for the site, \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" despite less-than-ideal financial projections, because of his Missouri roots and because of a desire to help create a lasting tribute to the pioneer statement that the Arch represented. But civic leaders presented him with a variety of financial hurdles, as well as pressure from August Busch and others to include beer and liquor sales in the project. Finally Disney moved on down the road to a flat piece of Florida scrub in Orlando.<br /><br />Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Chattanooga... The list of cities reviving their riverfront districts seems endless. One city missing from the list, however, is St. Louis. Despite numerous plans and 40 years of redevelopment, St. Louis\\\' riverfront remains a hidden, dirty, back alley. Is there any hope?<br /><br />On August 1, 2005, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to potentially transform the St. Louis riverfront in the vicinity of the Gateway Arch. The committee selected by the Danforth Foundation came up with plans for putting floating islands in the Mississippi River or terracing the levee and then concluded they weren\\\'t feasible. The Danforth Foundation, which pointed to Chicago\\\'s Millennium Park as its model for an active riverfront, then concluded than nothing could be done without major changes to the Arch grounds themselves.</p>\n<p><br />Former Sen. John C. Danforth, chairman of the Foundation, said, \\\"We are wasting our two most valuable assets: the Gateway Arch and our position on America\\\'s greatest river.\\\" He called for changing the way the Arch grounds are used to allow restaurants, ice skating, swimming, water fountains, and other activities.<br /><br /><strong>What\\\'s Next?</strong><br /><br />After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.<br />What follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.<br /><br /><strong>Eero Saarinen</strong><br /><br />Saarinen, the architect of the Arch, once wrote an account of a day at the Arch that anticipated a park full of activities, but activities related to the history of St. Louis and the West. In addition to the Old Courthouse, history museum, and tram ride up the Arch, he imagined a re-creation of a pioneer village set inside a forest on the north side of the park, a Colonial Williamsburg inspired collection of historic St. Louis buildings surrounding the Old Cathedral, formal gardens and an Architectural Museum.<br />He imagined at least three restaurants on the grounds: a \\\"levee restaurant\\\" on the north end by the river, a more centrally located \\\"River Restaurant,\\\" and a caf&eacute; set amidst the garden terraces atop the history museum.<br />He imagined a \\\"Campfire Theater\\\" inside a forest where park rangers would tell stories about the history of St. Louis. And he pictured an arcade near the levee, with a series of \\\"little courts\\\" where the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of the United States would be told through sculpture and painting.</p>\n<p><strong>Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><br />A vision that contrasts sharply with Danforth\\\'s comes from Lou Saur, principal of Saur Architects and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. Saur focuses on one problem-connecting the Arch grounds to downtown along the axis formed by the Old Courthouse and the Arch-in order to come up with a confined, doable project. <br />The core of his idea is a higher quality museum modeled after the underground World War Imuseum in Kansas City, a major cultural attraction on the order of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In essence, it would be a major expansion, renovation, and upgrade of the existing underground museum with a new entrance near Memorial Drive. He proposes a passenger drop-off from Memorial Drive and an auto loop to a new underground parking garage underneath Ely Luther Smith Park, and an elevated walkway over Memorial Drive for better pedestrian access from Smith Park to the Arch grounds. To complete the connection to the river, he proposes construction of an elevated pier extending from the top of the Grand Staircase over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and levee.<br /><br />\\\"I just don\\\'t see the Arch grounds as a Millennium Park,\\\" he said. \\\"Millennium Park is a Chicago experience. The Arch grounds should be a beautiful cultural experience. It is just incomplete,\\\" he added.<br /><br /><strong><br />HOK</strong><br /><br />HOK\\\'s Planning Group has worked on several plans for revitalizing the riverfront over the years, including the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Before the Danforth plan, HOK came up with the Chouteau Lake Plan to connect Arch to Forest Park.<br /><br />Chip Crawford, director of HOK\\\'s Planning Group, said the goal of all of such plans is \\\"to create something that is exciting enough and accessible enough to get people down there. . . . We\\\'ve proposed a number of things: restaurants, boat activities, ice skating, swimming, and educational activities.\\\"<br /><br />The new Mississippi River Bridge, he said, will create many opportunities for revitalizing the riverfront north of the Arch in Laclede\\\'s Landing. \\\" It will create a new front door to the city, closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than Soulard. That will create new opportunities for housing, etc.,\\\" he said.<br /><br />As for developing anything immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River, \\\"There are great challenges to building along a river as mighty as the Mississippi,\\\" he said. \\\"There is flooding; there are sediments; there is barge traffic, which most rivers don\\\'t have; there is turbulence and floating debris, which makes it very difficult. But north of the Arch, you could build-in a natural platform for housing and other development with parking on the lower levels.\\\"<br /><strong><br />Arcturis</strong><br /><br />Arcturis was involved with the Danforth study on the \\\"connector\\\" or lid over the I-70 trench. However, \\\"it is not the depressed section so much as Memorial Drive that is the challenge,\\\" said Vernon Remiger, chief operating officer of Arcturis. The City could move to redirect traffic from Memorial Drive, slow it down, and make Memorial Drive more pleasing to pedestrians, he said, but, \\\"since the National Park Service owns the land beneath it, whatever we do, we need National Park Service buy in.\\\"<br /><br />If the goal is to get a connection between downtown and the riverfront, \\\"the Arch grounds can\\\'t do it on their own,\\\" he said. \\\"What we need is a strong Laclede\\\'s Landing and a strong Chouteau\\\'s Landing,\\\" he said, referring to the areas just north and south of the Arch grounds. \\\"If we get that, then the connector piece between them is stronger.\\\" Both areas, he added, need some sort of residential life. Unfortunately, \\\"both areas are bounded by highways and a floodwall so that they are basically islands, which is what is keeping them from getting developed,\\\" he said. To get development started, \\\"We just need the National Park Service to give a little,\\\" he said. <br /><strong><br />Trivers</strong><br /><br />\\\"From architectural point of view the Arch is a great symbol, but symbols can only go so far to revitalize the city,\\\" said Andy Trivers, principal of Trivers Associates. \\\"In order for the Arch grounds to function they need some activity. We need to intensely develop the riverfront itself,\\\" he said.<br />\\\"We\\\'re a river city that has ignored its river. People gravitate to water. What was supposed to be a connector is now a divider. No one has a plan that will enliven the riverfront.\\\"<br />Trivers\\\' idea is for an elevated promenade over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard with stores and restaurants tucked into the hillside the supports the Arch grounds. \\\"We have to get out of flood plain,\\\" he said. \\\"We need a space from which to look out over the river to appreciate it.\\\"<br />\\\"In the grand scene of things we\\\'re talking about not that much money. We\\\'re only talking about the future of the city,\\\" he said.<br /><br /><strong><br />Vince Ebersoldt and Kevin Underwood</strong><br /><br />Vince Ebersoldt, principal of Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture, said that reconnecting downtown to the riverfront will take much more than just covering up the I-70 trench. \\\"Washington Avenue does a terrible job of connecting to Laclede\\\'s Landing, and there the highway is elevated,\\\" he said.<br /><br />His partner, Kevin Underwood, elaborated on that point, \\\"We need multiple points of access,\\\" he said. Chouteau\\\'s Landing has only one access point from downtown, he said, Chouteau Avenue. Between Chouteau Avenue and Market Street, a distance of over one mile, there is no way to get to the riverfront from the city. Access to Laclede\\\'s Landing from downtown is similarly restricted, and neither Laclede\\\'s Landing nor Chouteau\\\'s Landing offer direct access to the Arch grounds. <br />\\\"They have no connection with the park or the rest of the city,\\\" Underwood said. \\\"We have to establish connections with the park at the bookends and then provide reasons for people to go there, amenities like shopping, restaurants, etc.\\\"<br />Ebersoldt said that with Lumiere Casino open on the Laclede\\\'s Landing and Chivvis Development moving forward with plans for Chouteau\\\'s Landing, development will happen on the bookends. \\\"If not for the slowdown in the housing market Ithink we would see more activity there now,\\\" he said.<br />Ultimately, he added, \\\"the city needs to put more resources forward to come up with a real plan that really tries to improve tourism and integrates it with recreational lifestyles.\\\" <br /><br /><strong>John Berendzen</strong><br /><br />Berendzen, president of Fox Architects and past president of the AIA St. Louis, said he was \\\"tangentially involved\\\" with the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Although he agrees that the Arch grounds are underutilized, he said the real issue is not the center of the park, but the edges.<br /><br />\\\"Good urban design is all about the edge, I can\\\'t stress that enough,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch is a wonderful thing; the park is beautiful; but the problem is there are no edges that mean anything to any pedestrian. We have world\\\'s greatest sculpture and a beautiful garden and all the buildings that front it have turned their backs on it. They have their loading docks facing the park. It is atrocious. The front of the city is really the back of downtown. <br /><br />\\\"Our problem is not that we need a wonderful pedestrian connection; we need a thriving pedestrian, mercantile, and office environment surrounding park.\\\"<br />The first step, he said, is to get rid of I-70 in front of the park and do something to slow down and possibly reduce Memorial Drive. After that, he would take on the north and south edges of the park.<br /><br />\\\"I would be prone to developing a strip along those edges, particularly the northern edge that abuts Laclede\\\'s Landing. It would be great if we had buildings on the north side looking into the park,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch grounds and the garage have created a moat between the park and Laclede\\\'s Landing, so we have to take a slice out of the park and redevelop it to make a connection to the Landing. There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work,\\\" he said.<br /><strong><br />Richard Claybour</strong><br /><br />Architect Richard Claybour also starts from the position that one point of access at the foot of Ely Luther Smith park is not good enough. \\\"The park is 12 blocks long. We need many access points,\\\" he said. <br /><br />To get that access, he would eliminate Memorial Drive. When the new Mississippi River bridge is built for I-70, he said, the city won\\\'t need Memorial Drive anymore. He proposes to take it out and create more green space where the eastern lanes were and let the buildings downtown expand into the western lanes with new \\\"fronts\\\" that face the park. He proposes letting the east-west streets that currently terminate at Memorial Drive loop into the park so people can drive in, drop people off, and drive out; and he proposes putting in a new bridge at Spruce Street and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the Eads Bridge to the park.<br /><br />The maintenance building on the south end of the park and the garage at the north end are violations of the master plan, said Claybour, so he would replace the maintenance building and the top level of the garage with retail or mixed-use buildings that extend across the entire north and south edges of the park and out from the hillsides on the eastern side of the park on platforms over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and the levee.<br /><br />In the interior of the park, Claybour would replace the existing fenced-off reflecting ponds with a river feature that traverses the entire length of the park, like the river feature in Forest Park. And noting that half of the train tunnel is unused, he suggested using that space for a trolley to carry people from one end of the park to the other, or from Chouteau\\\'s Landing to the Arch and on to Laclede\\\'s Landing.<br /><br />However, more important than any particular idea, Claybour said, is that the city have a more open and public discussion about how to improve the riverfront and make the Arch truly part of St. Louis.<br /><br />\\\"There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work.\\\"<br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard C. Ward</strong><br /><br />Ward, Vice President with the Development Management Group of Zimmer Real Estate Services, said any realistic discussion of reanimating the riverfront \\\"has to start with the reality of what we have: a big ditch created by Corps of Engineers and dictated by demands of waterborne commerce. When water fills it up it is as mean as can be. . . .[and] the kind of thing that was proposed by the HOK team (in the Danforth Foundation report) went beyond the pale of reality,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Of the various ideas for the Arch grounds that are floating around, Ward is most taken with Berendzen\\\'s focus on the edges. He said that while many things could be done to animate the edges of the park, he likes the idea of a restaurant on one of the parapet overlooks in the southeast and northeast corners of the park. \\\"I think one of the great amenities of the park is the view of the river from the high parapets on either end of the park,\\\" he said.<br /><br />\\\"I would hate to lose passive park feel of center,\\\" he added. \\\"Idon\\\'t think it needs to be made into Disneyland. I see no need for the whole area to be animated and made a playground for visitors. One of great experiences I\\\'ve had is walking around the plaza and looking up at the Arch and appreciating what a great piece of art it is. That does not need to be mussed up,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Ward was dismissive of the idea of capping the I-70 trench. \\\"In Cincinnati, there is a wider highway in a ditch, but it is very pleasant to walk across,\\\" he said. \\\"People cross streets all the time; the issue is how it is designed.\\\" The Memorial Drive/I-70 should be \\\"re-polished\\\" to be more pleasant and less utilitarian, he said, but it does not need a lid and \\\"it does not have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:88:\"Walt Disney\\\'s plan for the St. Louis Riverfront was rejected by St. Louis civic leaders\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(179,65,2,2,1211224685,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"65\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-15 09:25 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:40:\"An Uplifting Connection With Union Labor\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:29:\"electrical_connection_habitat\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:40:\"An Uplifting Connection With Union Labor\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:350:\"For the last two years, the Electrical Connection\\\'s donations of labor and materials have placed it in Habitat for Humanity\\\'s largest category of sponsors, Neighborhood Sponsors. Last year, the Electrical Connection wired a record 25 Habitat homes - using nearly 20 miles of wiring - which represented a $125,000 donation in materials and services.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:55:\"NECA, IBEW, Electrical Connection, Habitat for Humanity\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:5332:\"<p><br /><br />No other organization in St. Louis, and few in the country, enjoys the same record as Habitat for Humanity for matching needy families with stable, affordable, high-quality housing, and that record would not have been possible without the support of the unionized electrical construction industry.<br /><br />Out of 1600 affiliates of Habitat for Humanity nationwide, Habitat for Humanity St. Louis builds more houses every year than all except for 31 other affiliates - 25 houses last year and more than 230 in all. The local affiliate stands out for other reasons, as well. Unlike other affiliates, it builds houses with full basements instead of on a slab. Last year, Habitat for Humanity St. Louis began putting the utilities to its houses underground, and starting this year its new houses all will be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Kyle Hunsberger, director of construction for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, said the local affiliate\\\'s goals and record of accomplishments would not be so impressive were it not for the support of the Electrical Connection, which is a cooperative partnership of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local One and the St. Louis Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association.<br /><br />For the last two years, the Electrical Connection\\\'s donations of labor and materials have placed it in Habitat for Humanity\\\'s largest category of sponsors, Neighborhood Sponsors. Last year, the Electrical Connection wired a record 25 Habitat homes - using nearly 20 miles of wiring - which represented a $125,000 donation in materials and services.<br /><br />It all started in 2002 when Mills Mall sponsored the construction of a house inside the mall. The house later was moved to a site in Hillsdale, MO. Habitat for Humanity St. Louis had worked with different electrical contractors on different houses, but had never established a relationship with the electrician\\\'s union until Bathe Electric\\\'s Martin Bathe told Hunsberger that he should talk to Matt Lampe at the IBEW. \\\"Lampe organized electricians from a few different companies to rough in the electrical work while the house was at the mall, and when it was moved and set into its final location they came out and finished up the work,\\\" Hunsberger said.<br /><br />The relationship between Habitat and the Electrical Connection leaped forward in 2004 when the Electrical Connection wired all of Habitat\\\'s houses in Hillsdale for free and worked alongside Habitat volunteers in a blitz build in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood of St. Louis. <br /><br />\\\"That is really what sealed the deal,\\\" Hunsberger said. \\\"They became another part of the Habitat puzzle. From that point on they committed to taking on each project of ours. In 2006 we were back in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood with 20 homes; and in 2007 we did 25 homes in Mark Twain neighborhood, which is the first year we went with underground services, Ameren donated the conduit and the IBEW worked with us to put all services underground. They are committed to providing us with underground services, rough in, and with setting fixtures,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Every year since 2004, the Electrical Connection has mobilized an army of 150 to 300 IBEW Local 1 electricians and union electrical contractors to safely wire homes to advance Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis\\\' mission of providing homes for the disadvantaged.&nbsp; The total investment of donated time and materials now stands in excess of $500,000 and has provided for safely wiring in over 140 homes. Since that first house in Mills Mall in 2002, over 850 union electricians and electrical contractors have donated time on weekends and evenings help Habitat for Humanity St. Louis fulfill its mission of eliminating poverty housing and homelessness.<br /><br />This year, the Electrical Connection has committed to provide the electrical work to help Habitat for Humanity St. Louis reach its goal of building 27 homes in St. Louis. The organization is hoping to gradually build its capacity until it is able to build 50 homes a year starting in 2015.<br /><br />\\\"They are one of our largest sponsors and they have been wonderful to work with,\\\" said Kimberly McKinney, chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity St. Louis. \\\"When you can have a partnership with union labor and contractors, it just makes sense,\\\" she added.<br /><br />An ancillary benefit of the partnership is that Habitat \\\"can focus on other areas,\\\" Hunsberger said. \\\"It helps us on our fundraising knowing that the Electrical Connection is going to come in at $100,000-plus every year to take care of the electrical work. That allows us to build more houses and to add other things, like LEED certification,\\\" he said.<br /><br />The benefits of the partnership to the families that will own the homes also are very real. Not only to they get safe wiring; not only does the donation of the electrical installation lower the purchase price for the family; but, \\\"the Electrical Connection gives an additional five year labor warranty on all their projects on top of the contractor\\\'s one year warranty,\\\" Hunsberger said. \\\"That is an added incentive that we weren\\\'t counting on.\\\"<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:29:\"/images/uploads/habitat_1.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:129:\"IBEW Local 1 electrician Scott Johnson wires a box as part of the  Electrical Connection\\\'s contribution to Habitat for Humanity.\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(180,78,2,2,1211224854,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"78\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-19 09:10 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"St.  Louis Riverfront Plans\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:25:\"st_louis_riverfront_plans\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:50:\"The St. Louis Riverfront: What\\\'s  the Attraction?\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:548:\"After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. \n\nWhat follows are ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:56:\"riverfront, plan, Danforth, Disney, architects, planners\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:16857:\"<p>The St. Louis Riverfront:<br />What\\\'s the Attraction?<br /><br />Now that the South leg tram is repaired, visitors to St. Louis can once again travel to the top of the Gateway Arch and back down to the bottom. But a question that\\\'s been up in the air since the last piece of the catenary curve was put into place remains: Where do they go from there? A lot of creative minds have wrestled with that problem of St. Louis\\\' riverfront over the decades... including the creator of Mickey Mouse. <br /><br />Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any city until St. Louis leaders approached him in 1963. Disney pursued his proposed project for the site, \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" despite less-than-ideal financial projections, because of his Missouri roots and because of a desire to help create a lasting tribute to the pioneer statement that the Arch represented. But civic leaders presented him with a variety of financial hurdles, as well as pressure from August Busch and others to include beer and liquor sales in the project. Finally Disney moved on down the road to a flat piece of Florida scrub in Orlando.<br /><br />Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Chattanooga... The list of cities reviving their riverfront districts seems endless. One city missing from the list, however, is St. Louis. Despite numerous plans and 40 years of redevelopment, St. Louis\\\' riverfront remains a hidden, dirty, back alley. Is there any hope?<br /><br />On August 1, 2005, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to potentially transform the St. Louis riverfront in the vicinity of the Gateway Arch. The committee selected by the Danforth Foundation came up with plans for putting floating islands in the Mississippi River or terracing the levee and then concluded they weren\\\'t feasible. The Danforth Foundation, which pointed to Chicago\\\'s Millennium Park as its model for an active riverfront, then concluded than nothing could be done without major changes to the Arch grounds themselves.</p>\n<p><br />Former Sen. John C. Danforth, chairman of the Foundation, said, \\\"We are wasting our two most valuable assets: the Gateway Arch and our position on America\\\'s greatest river.\\\" He called for changing the way the Arch grounds are used to allow restaurants, ice skating, swimming, water fountains, and other activities.<br /><br /><strong>What\\\'s Next?</strong><br /><br />After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.<br />What follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.<br /><br /><strong>Eero Saarinen</strong><br /><br />Saarinen, the architect of the Arch, once wrote an account of a day at the Arch that anticipated a park full of activities, but activities related to the history of St. Louis and the West. In addition to the Old Courthouse, history museum, and tram ride up the Arch, he imagined a re-creation of a pioneer village set inside a forest on the north side of the park, a Colonial Williamsburg inspired collection of historic St. Louis buildings surrounding the Old Cathedral, formal gardens and an Architectural Museum.<br />He imagined at least three restaurants on the grounds: a \\\"levee restaurant\\\" on the north end by the river, a more centrally located \\\"River Restaurant,\\\" and a caf&eacute; set amidst the garden terraces atop the history museum.<br />He imagined a \\\"Campfire Theater\\\" inside a forest where park rangers would tell stories about the history of St. Louis. And he pictured an arcade near the levee, with a series of \\\"little courts\\\" where the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of the United States would be told through sculpture and painting.</p>\n<p><strong>Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><br />A vision that contrasts sharply with Danforth\\\'s comes from Lou Saur, principal of Saur Architects and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. Saur focuses on one problem-connecting the Arch grounds to downtown along the axis formed by the Old Courthouse and the Arch-in order to come up with a confined, doable project. <br />The core of his idea is a higher quality museum modeled after the underground World War Imuseum in Kansas City, a major cultural attraction on the order of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In essence, it would be a major expansion, renovation, and upgrade of the existing underground museum with a new entrance near Memorial Drive. He proposes a passenger drop-off from Memorial Drive and an auto loop to a new underground parking garage underneath Ely Luther Smith Park, and an elevated walkway over Memorial Drive for better pedestrian access from Smith Park to the Arch grounds. To complete the connection to the river, he proposes construction of an elevated pier extending from the top of the Grand Staircase over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and levee.<br /><br />\\\"I just don\\\'t see the Arch grounds as a Millennium Park,\\\" he said. \\\"Millennium Park is a Chicago experience. The Arch grounds should be a beautiful cultural experience. It is just incomplete,\\\" he added.<br /><br /><strong><br />HOK</strong><br /><br />HOK\\\'s Planning Group has worked on several plans for revitalizing the riverfront over the years, including the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Before the Danforth plan, HOK came up with the Chouteau Lake Plan to connect Arch to Forest Park.<br /><br />Chip Crawford, director of HOK\\\'s Planning Group, said the goal of all of such plans is \\\"to create something that is exciting enough and accessible enough to get people down there. . . . We\\\'ve proposed a number of things: restaurants, boat activities, ice skating, swimming, and educational activities.\\\"<br /><br />The new Mississippi River Bridge, he said, will create many opportunities for revitalizing the riverfront north of the Arch in Laclede\\\'s Landing. \\\" It will create a new front door to the city, closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than Soulard. That will create new opportunities for housing, etc.,\\\" he said.<br /><br />As for developing anything immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River, \\\"There are great challenges to building along a river as mighty as the Mississippi,\\\" he said. \\\"There is flooding; there are sediments; there is barge traffic, which most rivers don\\\'t have; there is turbulence and floating debris, which makes it very difficult. But north of the Arch, you could build-in a natural platform for housing and other development with parking on the lower levels.\\\"<br /><strong><br />Arcturis</strong><br /><br />Arcturis was involved with the Danforth study on the \\\"connector\\\" or lid over the I-70 trench. However, \\\"it is not the depressed section so much as Memorial Drive that is the challenge,\\\" said Vernon Remiger, chief operating officer of Arcturis. The City could move to redirect traffic from Memorial Drive, slow it down, and make Memorial Drive more pleasing to pedestrians, he said, but, \\\"since the National Park Service owns the land beneath it, whatever we do, we need National Park Service buy in.\\\"<br /><br />If the goal is to get a connection between downtown and the riverfront, \\\"the Arch grounds can\\\'t do it on their own,\\\" he said. \\\"What we need is a strong Laclede\\\'s Landing and a strong Chouteau\\\'s Landing,\\\" he said, referring to the areas just north and south of the Arch grounds. \\\"If we get that, then the connector piece between them is stronger.\\\" Both areas, he added, need some sort of residential life. Unfortunately, \\\"both areas are bounded by highways and a floodwall so that they are basically islands, which is what is keeping them from getting developed,\\\" he said. To get development started, \\\"We just need the National Park Service to give a little,\\\" he said. <br /><strong><br />Trivers</strong><br /><br />\\\"From architectural point of view the Arch is a great symbol, but symbols can only go so far to revitalize the city,\\\" said Andy Trivers, principal of Trivers Associates. \\\"In order for the Arch grounds to function they need some activity. We need to intensely develop the riverfront itself,\\\" he said.<br />\\\"We\\\'re a river city that has ignored its river. People gravitate to water. What was supposed to be a connector is now a divider. No one has a plan that will enliven the riverfront.\\\"<br />Trivers\\\' idea is for an elevated promenade over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard with stores and restaurants tucked into the hillside the supports the Arch grounds. \\\"We have to get out of flood plain,\\\" he said. \\\"We need a space from which to look out over the river to appreciate it.\\\"<br />\\\"In the grand scene of things we\\\'re talking about not that much money. We\\\'re only talking about the future of the city,\\\" he said.<br /><br /><strong><br />Vince Ebersoldt and Kevin Underwood</strong><br /><br />Vince Ebersoldt, principal of Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture, said that reconnecting downtown to the riverfront will take much more than just covering up the I-70 trench. \\\"Washington Avenue does a terrible job of connecting to Laclede\\\'s Landing, and there the highway is elevated,\\\" he said.<br /><br />His partner, Kevin Underwood, elaborated on that point, \\\"We need multiple points of access,\\\" he said. Chouteau\\\'s Landing has only one access point from downtown, he said, Chouteau Avenue. Between Chouteau Avenue and Market Street, a distance of over one mile, there is no way to get to the riverfront from the city. Access to Laclede\\\'s Landing from downtown is similarly restricted, and neither Laclede\\\'s Landing nor Chouteau\\\'s Landing offer direct access to the Arch grounds. <br />\\\"They have no connection with the park or the rest of the city,\\\" Underwood said. \\\"We have to establish connections with the park at the bookends and then provide reasons for people to go there, amenities like shopping, restaurants, etc.\\\"<br />Ebersoldt said that with Lumiere Casino open on the Laclede\\\'s Landing and Chivvis Development moving forward with plans for Chouteau\\\'s Landing, development will happen on the bookends. \\\"If not for the slowdown in the housing market Ithink we would see more activity there now,\\\" he said.<br />Ultimately, he added, \\\"the city needs to put more resources forward to come up with a real plan that really tries to improve tourism and integrates it with recreational lifestyles.\\\" <br /><br /><strong>John Berendzen</strong><br /><br />Berendzen, president of Fox Architects and past president of the AIA St. Louis, said he was \\\"tangentially involved\\\" with the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Although he agrees that the Arch grounds are underutilized, he said the real issue is not the center of the park, but the edges.<br /><br />\\\"Good urban design is all about the edge, I can\\\'t stress that enough,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch is a wonderful thing; the park is beautiful; but the problem is there are no edges that mean anything to any pedestrian. We have world\\\'s greatest sculpture and a beautiful garden and all the buildings that front it have turned their backs on it. They have their loading docks facing the park. It is atrocious. The front of the city is really the back of downtown. <br /><br />\\\"Our problem is not that we need a wonderful pedestrian connection; we need a thriving pedestrian, mercantile, and office environment surrounding park.\\\"<br />The first step, he said, is to get rid of I-70 in front of the park and do something to slow down and possibly reduce Memorial Drive. After that, he would take on the north and south edges of the park.<br /><br />\\\"I would be prone to developing a strip along those edges, particularly the northern edge that abuts Laclede\\\'s Landing. It would be great if we had buildings on the north side looking into the park,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch grounds and the garage have created a moat between the park and Laclede\\\'s Landing, so we have to take a slice out of the park and redevelop it to make a connection to the Landing. There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work,\\\" he said.<br /><strong><br />Richard Claybour</strong><br /><br />Architect Richard Claybour also starts from the position that one point of access at the foot of Ely Luther Smith park is not good enough. \\\"The park is 12 blocks long. We need many access points,\\\" he said. <br /><br />To get that access, he would eliminate Memorial Drive. When the new Mississippi River bridge is built for I-70, he said, the city won\\\'t need Memorial Drive anymore. He proposes to take it out and create more green space where the eastern lanes were and let the buildings downtown expand into the western lanes with new \\\"fronts\\\" that face the park. He proposes letting the east-west streets that currently terminate at Memorial Drive loop into the park so people can drive in, drop people off, and drive out; and he proposes putting in a new bridge at Spruce Street and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the Eads Bridge to the park.<br /><br />The maintenance building on the south end of the park and the garage at the north end are violations of the master plan, said Claybour, so he would replace the maintenance building and the top level of the garage with retail or mixed-use buildings that extend across the entire north and south edges of the park and out from the hillsides on the eastern side of the park on platforms over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and the levee.<br /><br />In the interior of the park, Claybour would replace the existing fenced-off reflecting ponds with a river feature that traverses the entire length of the park, like the river feature in Forest Park. And noting that half of the train tunnel is unused, he suggested using that space for a trolley to carry people from one end of the park to the other, or from Chouteau\\\'s Landing to the Arch and on to Laclede\\\'s Landing.<br /><br />However, more important than any particular idea, Claybour said, is that the city have a more open and public discussion about how to improve the riverfront and make the Arch truly part of St. Louis.<br /><br />\\\"There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work.\\\"<br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard C. Ward</strong><br /><br />Ward, Vice President with the Development Management Group of Zimmer Real Estate Services, said any realistic discussion of reanimating the riverfront \\\"has to start with the reality of what we have: a big ditch created by Corps of Engineers and dictated by demands of waterborne commerce. When water fills it up it is as mean as can be. . . .[and] the kind of thing that was proposed by the HOK team (in the Danforth Foundation report) went beyond the pale of reality,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Of the various ideas for the Arch grounds that are floating around, Ward is most taken with Berendzen\\\'s focus on the edges. He said that while many things could be done to animate the edges of the park, he likes the idea of a restaurant on one of the parapet overlooks in the southeast and northeast corners of the park. \\\"I think one of the great amenities of the park is the view of the river from the high parapets on either end of the park,\\\" he said.<br /><br />\\\"I would hate to lose passive park feel of center,\\\" he added. \\\"Idon\\\'t think it needs to be made into Disneyland. I see no need for the whole area to be animated and made a playground for visitors. One of great experiences I\\\'ve had is walking around the plaza and looking up at the Arch and appreciating what a great piece of art it is. That does not need to be mussed up,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Ward was dismissive of the idea of capping the I-70 trench. \\\"In Cincinnati, there is a wider highway in a ditch, but it is very pleasant to walk across,\\\" he said. \\\"People cross streets all the time; the issue is how it is designed.\\\" The Memorial Drive/I-70 should be \\\"re-polished\\\" to be more pleasant and less utilitarian, he said, but it does not need a lid and \\\"it does not have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:88:\"Walt Disney\\\'s plan for the St. Louis Riverfront was rejected by St. Louis civic leaders\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(181,78,2,2,1211225227,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"78\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-19 09:10 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"St.  Louis Riverfront Plans\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:25:\"st_louis_riverfront_plans\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:50:\"The St. Louis Riverfront: What\\\'s  the Attraction?\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:453:\"In 2005 Mayor Slay asked the Danforth Foundation for bold plans to transform the St. Louis Riverfront. Danforth explored several options and decided that nothing could be done without changes to the Arch grounds. Recently the National Park Service announced that it was open to considering that possiblity.  What follows are ideas for the St. Louis riverfront that CNR solicited from architects and planners who have thought deeply about the riverfront.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:56:\"riverfront, plan, Danforth, Disney, architects, planners\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:16857:\"<p>The St. Louis Riverfront:<br />What\\\'s the Attraction?<br /><br />Now that the South leg tram is repaired, visitors to St. Louis can once again travel to the top of the Gateway Arch and back down to the bottom. But a question that\\\'s been up in the air since the last piece of the catenary curve was put into place remains: Where do they go from there? A lot of creative minds have wrestled with that problem of St. Louis\\\' riverfront over the decades... including the creator of Mickey Mouse. <br /><br />Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any city until St. Louis leaders approached him in 1963. Disney pursued his proposed project for the site, \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" despite less-than-ideal financial projections, because of his Missouri roots and because of a desire to help create a lasting tribute to the pioneer statement that the Arch represented. But civic leaders presented him with a variety of financial hurdles, as well as pressure from August Busch and others to include beer and liquor sales in the project. Finally Disney moved on down the road to a flat piece of Florida scrub in Orlando.<br /><br />Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Chattanooga... The list of cities reviving their riverfront districts seems endless. One city missing from the list, however, is St. Louis. Despite numerous plans and 40 years of redevelopment, St. Louis\\\' riverfront remains a hidden, dirty, back alley. Is there any hope?<br /><br />On August 1, 2005, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to potentially transform the St. Louis riverfront in the vicinity of the Gateway Arch. The committee selected by the Danforth Foundation came up with plans for putting floating islands in the Mississippi River or terracing the levee and then concluded they weren\\\'t feasible. The Danforth Foundation, which pointed to Chicago\\\'s Millennium Park as its model for an active riverfront, then concluded than nothing could be done without major changes to the Arch grounds themselves.</p>\n<p><br />Former Sen. John C. Danforth, chairman of the Foundation, said, \\\"We are wasting our two most valuable assets: the Gateway Arch and our position on America\\\'s greatest river.\\\" He called for changing the way the Arch grounds are used to allow restaurants, ice skating, swimming, water fountains, and other activities.<br /><br /><strong>What\\\'s Next?</strong><br /><br />After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.<br />What follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.<br /><br /><strong>Eero Saarinen</strong><br /><br />Saarinen, the architect of the Arch, once wrote an account of a day at the Arch that anticipated a park full of activities, but activities related to the history of St. Louis and the West. In addition to the Old Courthouse, history museum, and tram ride up the Arch, he imagined a re-creation of a pioneer village set inside a forest on the north side of the park, a Colonial Williamsburg inspired collection of historic St. Louis buildings surrounding the Old Cathedral, formal gardens and an Architectural Museum.<br />He imagined at least three restaurants on the grounds: a \\\"levee restaurant\\\" on the north end by the river, a more centrally located \\\"River Restaurant,\\\" and a caf&eacute; set amidst the garden terraces atop the history museum.<br />He imagined a \\\"Campfire Theater\\\" inside a forest where park rangers would tell stories about the history of St. Louis. And he pictured an arcade near the levee, with a series of \\\"little courts\\\" where the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of the United States would be told through sculpture and painting.</p>\n<p><strong>Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><br />A vision that contrasts sharply with Danforth\\\'s comes from Lou Saur, principal of Saur Architects and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. Saur focuses on one problem-connecting the Arch grounds to downtown along the axis formed by the Old Courthouse and the Arch-in order to come up with a confined, doable project. <br />The core of his idea is a higher quality museum modeled after the underground World War Imuseum in Kansas City, a major cultural attraction on the order of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In essence, it would be a major expansion, renovation, and upgrade of the existing underground museum with a new entrance near Memorial Drive. He proposes a passenger drop-off from Memorial Drive and an auto loop to a new underground parking garage underneath Ely Luther Smith Park, and an elevated walkway over Memorial Drive for better pedestrian access from Smith Park to the Arch grounds. To complete the connection to the river, he proposes construction of an elevated pier extending from the top of the Grand Staircase over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and levee.<br /><br />\\\"I just don\\\'t see the Arch grounds as a Millennium Park,\\\" he said. \\\"Millennium Park is a Chicago experience. The Arch grounds should be a beautiful cultural experience. It is just incomplete,\\\" he added.<br /><br /><strong><br />HOK</strong><br /><br />HOK\\\'s Planning Group has worked on several plans for revitalizing the riverfront over the years, including the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Before the Danforth plan, HOK came up with the Chouteau Lake Plan to connect Arch to Forest Park.<br /><br />Chip Crawford, director of HOK\\\'s Planning Group, said the goal of all of such plans is \\\"to create something that is exciting enough and accessible enough to get people down there. . . . We\\\'ve proposed a number of things: restaurants, boat activities, ice skating, swimming, and educational activities.\\\"<br /><br />The new Mississippi River Bridge, he said, will create many opportunities for revitalizing the riverfront north of the Arch in Laclede\\\'s Landing. \\\" It will create a new front door to the city, closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than Soulard. That will create new opportunities for housing, etc.,\\\" he said.<br /><br />As for developing anything immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River, \\\"There are great challenges to building along a river as mighty as the Mississippi,\\\" he said. \\\"There is flooding; there are sediments; there is barge traffic, which most rivers don\\\'t have; there is turbulence and floating debris, which makes it very difficult. But north of the Arch, you could build-in a natural platform for housing and other development with parking on the lower levels.\\\"<br /><strong><br />Arcturis</strong><br /><br />Arcturis was involved with the Danforth study on the \\\"connector\\\" or lid over the I-70 trench. However, \\\"it is not the depressed section so much as Memorial Drive that is the challenge,\\\" said Vernon Remiger, chief operating officer of Arcturis. The City could move to redirect traffic from Memorial Drive, slow it down, and make Memorial Drive more pleasing to pedestrians, he said, but, \\\"since the National Park Service owns the land beneath it, whatever we do, we need National Park Service buy in.\\\"<br /><br />If the goal is to get a connection between downtown and the riverfront, \\\"the Arch grounds can\\\'t do it on their own,\\\" he said. \\\"What we need is a strong Laclede\\\'s Landing and a strong Chouteau\\\'s Landing,\\\" he said, referring to the areas just north and south of the Arch grounds. \\\"If we get that, then the connector piece between them is stronger.\\\" Both areas, he added, need some sort of residential life. Unfortunately, \\\"both areas are bounded by highways and a floodwall so that they are basically islands, which is what is keeping them from getting developed,\\\" he said. To get development started, \\\"We just need the National Park Service to give a little,\\\" he said. <br /><strong><br />Trivers</strong><br /><br />\\\"From architectural point of view the Arch is a great symbol, but symbols can only go so far to revitalize the city,\\\" said Andy Trivers, principal of Trivers Associates. \\\"In order for the Arch grounds to function they need some activity. We need to intensely develop the riverfront itself,\\\" he said.<br />\\\"We\\\'re a river city that has ignored its river. People gravitate to water. What was supposed to be a connector is now a divider. No one has a plan that will enliven the riverfront.\\\"<br />Trivers\\\' idea is for an elevated promenade over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard with stores and restaurants tucked into the hillside the supports the Arch grounds. \\\"We have to get out of flood plain,\\\" he said. \\\"We need a space from which to look out over the river to appreciate it.\\\"<br />\\\"In the grand scene of things we\\\'re talking about not that much money. We\\\'re only talking about the future of the city,\\\" he said.<br /><br /><strong><br />Vince Ebersoldt and Kevin Underwood</strong><br /><br />Vince Ebersoldt, principal of Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture, said that reconnecting downtown to the riverfront will take much more than just covering up the I-70 trench. \\\"Washington Avenue does a terrible job of connecting to Laclede\\\'s Landing, and there the highway is elevated,\\\" he said.<br /><br />His partner, Kevin Underwood, elaborated on that point, \\\"We need multiple points of access,\\\" he said. Chouteau\\\'s Landing has only one access point from downtown, he said, Chouteau Avenue. Between Chouteau Avenue and Market Street, a distance of over one mile, there is no way to get to the riverfront from the city. Access to Laclede\\\'s Landing from downtown is similarly restricted, and neither Laclede\\\'s Landing nor Chouteau\\\'s Landing offer direct access to the Arch grounds. <br />\\\"They have no connection with the park or the rest of the city,\\\" Underwood said. \\\"We have to establish connections with the park at the bookends and then provide reasons for people to go there, amenities like shopping, restaurants, etc.\\\"<br />Ebersoldt said that with Lumiere Casino open on the Laclede\\\'s Landing and Chivvis Development moving forward with plans for Chouteau\\\'s Landing, development will happen on the bookends. \\\"If not for the slowdown in the housing market Ithink we would see more activity there now,\\\" he said.<br />Ultimately, he added, \\\"the city needs to put more resources forward to come up with a real plan that really tries to improve tourism and integrates it with recreational lifestyles.\\\" <br /><br /><strong>John Berendzen</strong><br /><br />Berendzen, president of Fox Architects and past president of the AIA St. Louis, said he was \\\"tangentially involved\\\" with the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Although he agrees that the Arch grounds are underutilized, he said the real issue is not the center of the park, but the edges.<br /><br />\\\"Good urban design is all about the edge, I can\\\'t stress that enough,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch is a wonderful thing; the park is beautiful; but the problem is there are no edges that mean anything to any pedestrian. We have world\\\'s greatest sculpture and a beautiful garden and all the buildings that front it have turned their backs on it. They have their loading docks facing the park. It is atrocious. The front of the city is really the back of downtown. <br /><br />\\\"Our problem is not that we need a wonderful pedestrian connection; we need a thriving pedestrian, mercantile, and office environment surrounding park.\\\"<br />The first step, he said, is to get rid of I-70 in front of the park and do something to slow down and possibly reduce Memorial Drive. After that, he would take on the north and south edges of the park.<br /><br />\\\"I would be prone to developing a strip along those edges, particularly the northern edge that abuts Laclede\\\'s Landing. It would be great if we had buildings on the north side looking into the park,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch grounds and the garage have created a moat between the park and Laclede\\\'s Landing, so we have to take a slice out of the park and redevelop it to make a connection to the Landing. There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work,\\\" he said.<br /><strong><br />Richard Claybour</strong><br /><br />Architect Richard Claybour also starts from the position that one point of access at the foot of Ely Luther Smith park is not good enough. \\\"The park is 12 blocks long. We need many access points,\\\" he said. <br /><br />To get that access, he would eliminate Memorial Drive. When the new Mississippi River bridge is built for I-70, he said, the city won\\\'t need Memorial Drive anymore. He proposes to take it out and create more green space where the eastern lanes were and let the buildings downtown expand into the western lanes with new \\\"fronts\\\" that face the park. He proposes letting the east-west streets that currently terminate at Memorial Drive loop into the park so people can drive in, drop people off, and drive out; and he proposes putting in a new bridge at Spruce Street and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the Eads Bridge to the park.<br /><br />The maintenance building on the south end of the park and the garage at the north end are violations of the master plan, said Claybour, so he would replace the maintenance building and the top level of the garage with retail or mixed-use buildings that extend across the entire north and south edges of the park and out from the hillsides on the eastern side of the park on platforms over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and the levee.<br /><br />In the interior of the park, Claybour would replace the existing fenced-off reflecting ponds with a river feature that traverses the entire length of the park, like the river feature in Forest Park. And noting that half of the train tunnel is unused, he suggested using that space for a trolley to carry people from one end of the park to the other, or from Chouteau\\\'s Landing to the Arch and on to Laclede\\\'s Landing.<br /><br />However, more important than any particular idea, Claybour said, is that the city have a more open and public discussion about how to improve the riverfront and make the Arch truly part of St. Louis.<br /><br />\\\"There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work.\\\"<br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard C. Ward</strong><br /><br />Ward, Vice President with the Development Management Group of Zimmer Real Estate Services, said any realistic discussion of reanimating the riverfront \\\"has to start with the reality of what we have: a big ditch created by Corps of Engineers and dictated by demands of waterborne commerce. When water fills it up it is as mean as can be. . . .[and] the kind of thing that was proposed by the HOK team (in the Danforth Foundation report) went beyond the pale of reality,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Of the various ideas for the Arch grounds that are floating around, Ward is most taken with Berendzen\\\'s focus on the edges. He said that while many things could be done to animate the edges of the park, he likes the idea of a restaurant on one of the parapet overlooks in the southeast and northeast corners of the park. \\\"I think one of the great amenities of the park is the view of the river from the high parapets on either end of the park,\\\" he said.<br /><br />\\\"I would hate to lose passive park feel of center,\\\" he added. \\\"Idon\\\'t think it needs to be made into Disneyland. I see no need for the whole area to be animated and made a playground for visitors. One of great experiences I\\\'ve had is walking around the plaza and looking up at the Arch and appreciating what a great piece of art it is. That does not need to be mussed up,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Ward was dismissive of the idea of capping the I-70 trench. \\\"In Cincinnati, there is a wider highway in a ditch, but it is very pleasant to walk across,\\\" he said. \\\"People cross streets all the time; the issue is how it is designed.\\\" The Memorial Drive/I-70 should be \\\"re-polished\\\" to be more pleasant and less utilitarian, he said, but it does not need a lid and \\\"it does not have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:88:\"Walt Disney\\\'s plan for the St. Louis Riverfront was rejected by St. Louis civic leaders\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(182,78,2,2,1211225323,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"78\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-19 09:10 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"St.  Louis Riverfront Plans\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:25:\"st_louis_riverfront_plans\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:50:\"The St. Louis Riverfront: What\\\'s  the Attraction?\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:450:\"In 2005 Mayor Slay asked the Danforth Foundation for bold plans to transform the St. Louis Riverfront. Danforth explored several options and decided that nothing could be done without changes to the Arch grounds. Recently the National Park Service announced that it was open to considering that possiblity.  What follows are ideas for the St. Louis riverfront that CNR solicited from architects and planners who have thought deeply about the subject.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:56:\"riverfront, plan, Danforth, Disney, architects, planners\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:16857:\"<p>The St. Louis Riverfront:<br />What\\\'s the Attraction?<br /><br />Now that the South leg tram is repaired, visitors to St. Louis can once again travel to the top of the Gateway Arch and back down to the bottom. But a question that\\\'s been up in the air since the last piece of the catenary curve was put into place remains: Where do they go from there? A lot of creative minds have wrestled with that problem of St. Louis\\\' riverfront over the decades... including the creator of Mickey Mouse. <br /><br />Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any city until St. Louis leaders approached him in 1963. Disney pursued his proposed project for the site, \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" despite less-than-ideal financial projections, because of his Missouri roots and because of a desire to help create a lasting tribute to the pioneer statement that the Arch represented. But civic leaders presented him with a variety of financial hurdles, as well as pressure from August Busch and others to include beer and liquor sales in the project. Finally Disney moved on down the road to a flat piece of Florida scrub in Orlando.<br /><br />Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Chattanooga... The list of cities reviving their riverfront districts seems endless. One city missing from the list, however, is St. Louis. Despite numerous plans and 40 years of redevelopment, St. Louis\\\' riverfront remains a hidden, dirty, back alley. Is there any hope?<br /><br />On August 1, 2005, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to potentially transform the St. Louis riverfront in the vicinity of the Gateway Arch. The committee selected by the Danforth Foundation came up with plans for putting floating islands in the Mississippi River or terracing the levee and then concluded they weren\\\'t feasible. The Danforth Foundation, which pointed to Chicago\\\'s Millennium Park as its model for an active riverfront, then concluded than nothing could be done without major changes to the Arch grounds themselves.</p>\n<p><br />Former Sen. John C. Danforth, chairman of the Foundation, said, \\\"We are wasting our two most valuable assets: the Gateway Arch and our position on America\\\'s greatest river.\\\" He called for changing the way the Arch grounds are used to allow restaurants, ice skating, swimming, water fountains, and other activities.<br /><br /><strong>What\\\'s Next?</strong><br /><br />After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.<br />What follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.<br /><br /><strong>Eero Saarinen</strong><br /><br />Saarinen, the architect of the Arch, once wrote an account of a day at the Arch that anticipated a park full of activities, but activities related to the history of St. Louis and the West. In addition to the Old Courthouse, history museum, and tram ride up the Arch, he imagined a re-creation of a pioneer village set inside a forest on the north side of the park, a Colonial Williamsburg inspired collection of historic St. Louis buildings surrounding the Old Cathedral, formal gardens and an Architectural Museum.<br />He imagined at least three restaurants on the grounds: a \\\"levee restaurant\\\" on the north end by the river, a more centrally located \\\"River Restaurant,\\\" and a caf&eacute; set amidst the garden terraces atop the history museum.<br />He imagined a \\\"Campfire Theater\\\" inside a forest where park rangers would tell stories about the history of St. Louis. And he pictured an arcade near the levee, with a series of \\\"little courts\\\" where the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of the United States would be told through sculpture and painting.</p>\n<p><strong>Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><br />A vision that contrasts sharply with Danforth\\\'s comes from Lou Saur, principal of Saur Architects and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. Saur focuses on one problem-connecting the Arch grounds to downtown along the axis formed by the Old Courthouse and the Arch-in order to come up with a confined, doable project. <br />The core of his idea is a higher quality museum modeled after the underground World War Imuseum in Kansas City, a major cultural attraction on the order of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In essence, it would be a major expansion, renovation, and upgrade of the existing underground museum with a new entrance near Memorial Drive. He proposes a passenger drop-off from Memorial Drive and an auto loop to a new underground parking garage underneath Ely Luther Smith Park, and an elevated walkway over Memorial Drive for better pedestrian access from Smith Park to the Arch grounds. To complete the connection to the river, he proposes construction of an elevated pier extending from the top of the Grand Staircase over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and levee.<br /><br />\\\"I just don\\\'t see the Arch grounds as a Millennium Park,\\\" he said. \\\"Millennium Park is a Chicago experience. The Arch grounds should be a beautiful cultural experience. It is just incomplete,\\\" he added.<br /><br /><strong><br />HOK</strong><br /><br />HOK\\\'s Planning Group has worked on several plans for revitalizing the riverfront over the years, including the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Before the Danforth plan, HOK came up with the Chouteau Lake Plan to connect Arch to Forest Park.<br /><br />Chip Crawford, director of HOK\\\'s Planning Group, said the goal of all of such plans is \\\"to create something that is exciting enough and accessible enough to get people down there. . . . We\\\'ve proposed a number of things: restaurants, boat activities, ice skating, swimming, and educational activities.\\\"<br /><br />The new Mississippi River Bridge, he said, will create many opportunities for revitalizing the riverfront north of the Arch in Laclede\\\'s Landing. \\\" It will create a new front door to the city, closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than Soulard. That will create new opportunities for housing, etc.,\\\" he said.<br /><br />As for developing anything immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River, \\\"There are great challenges to building along a river as mighty as the Mississippi,\\\" he said. \\\"There is flooding; there are sediments; there is barge traffic, which most rivers don\\\'t have; there is turbulence and floating debris, which makes it very difficult. But north of the Arch, you could build-in a natural platform for housing and other development with parking on the lower levels.\\\"<br /><strong><br />Arcturis</strong><br /><br />Arcturis was involved with the Danforth study on the \\\"connector\\\" or lid over the I-70 trench. However, \\\"it is not the depressed section so much as Memorial Drive that is the challenge,\\\" said Vernon Remiger, chief operating officer of Arcturis. The City could move to redirect traffic from Memorial Drive, slow it down, and make Memorial Drive more pleasing to pedestrians, he said, but, \\\"since the National Park Service owns the land beneath it, whatever we do, we need National Park Service buy in.\\\"<br /><br />If the goal is to get a connection between downtown and the riverfront, \\\"the Arch grounds can\\\'t do it on their own,\\\" he said. \\\"What we need is a strong Laclede\\\'s Landing and a strong Chouteau\\\'s Landing,\\\" he said, referring to the areas just north and south of the Arch grounds. \\\"If we get that, then the connector piece between them is stronger.\\\" Both areas, he added, need some sort of residential life. Unfortunately, \\\"both areas are bounded by highways and a floodwall so that they are basically islands, which is what is keeping them from getting developed,\\\" he said. To get development started, \\\"We just need the National Park Service to give a little,\\\" he said. <br /><strong><br />Trivers</strong><br /><br />\\\"From architectural point of view the Arch is a great symbol, but symbols can only go so far to revitalize the city,\\\" said Andy Trivers, principal of Trivers Associates. \\\"In order for the Arch grounds to function they need some activity. We need to intensely develop the riverfront itself,\\\" he said.<br />\\\"We\\\'re a river city that has ignored its river. People gravitate to water. What was supposed to be a connector is now a divider. No one has a plan that will enliven the riverfront.\\\"<br />Trivers\\\' idea is for an elevated promenade over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard with stores and restaurants tucked into the hillside the supports the Arch grounds. \\\"We have to get out of flood plain,\\\" he said. \\\"We need a space from which to look out over the river to appreciate it.\\\"<br />\\\"In the grand scene of things we\\\'re talking about not that much money. We\\\'re only talking about the future of the city,\\\" he said.<br /><br /><strong><br />Vince Ebersoldt and Kevin Underwood</strong><br /><br />Vince Ebersoldt, principal of Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture, said that reconnecting downtown to the riverfront will take much more than just covering up the I-70 trench. \\\"Washington Avenue does a terrible job of connecting to Laclede\\\'s Landing, and there the highway is elevated,\\\" he said.<br /><br />His partner, Kevin Underwood, elaborated on that point, \\\"We need multiple points of access,\\\" he said. Chouteau\\\'s Landing has only one access point from downtown, he said, Chouteau Avenue. Between Chouteau Avenue and Market Street, a distance of over one mile, there is no way to get to the riverfront from the city. Access to Laclede\\\'s Landing from downtown is similarly restricted, and neither Laclede\\\'s Landing nor Chouteau\\\'s Landing offer direct access to the Arch grounds. <br />\\\"They have no connection with the park or the rest of the city,\\\" Underwood said. \\\"We have to establish connections with the park at the bookends and then provide reasons for people to go there, amenities like shopping, restaurants, etc.\\\"<br />Ebersoldt said that with Lumiere Casino open on the Laclede\\\'s Landing and Chivvis Development moving forward with plans for Chouteau\\\'s Landing, development will happen on the bookends. \\\"If not for the slowdown in the housing market Ithink we would see more activity there now,\\\" he said.<br />Ultimately, he added, \\\"the city needs to put more resources forward to come up with a real plan that really tries to improve tourism and integrates it with recreational lifestyles.\\\" <br /><br /><strong>John Berendzen</strong><br /><br />Berendzen, president of Fox Architects and past president of the AIA St. Louis, said he was \\\"tangentially involved\\\" with the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Although he agrees that the Arch grounds are underutilized, he said the real issue is not the center of the park, but the edges.<br /><br />\\\"Good urban design is all about the edge, I can\\\'t stress that enough,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch is a wonderful thing; the park is beautiful; but the problem is there are no edges that mean anything to any pedestrian. We have world\\\'s greatest sculpture and a beautiful garden and all the buildings that front it have turned their backs on it. They have their loading docks facing the park. It is atrocious. The front of the city is really the back of downtown. <br /><br />\\\"Our problem is not that we need a wonderful pedestrian connection; we need a thriving pedestrian, mercantile, and office environment surrounding park.\\\"<br />The first step, he said, is to get rid of I-70 in front of the park and do something to slow down and possibly reduce Memorial Drive. After that, he would take on the north and south edges of the park.<br /><br />\\\"I would be prone to developing a strip along those edges, particularly the northern edge that abuts Laclede\\\'s Landing. It would be great if we had buildings on the north side looking into the park,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch grounds and the garage have created a moat between the park and Laclede\\\'s Landing, so we have to take a slice out of the park and redevelop it to make a connection to the Landing. There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work,\\\" he said.<br /><strong><br />Richard Claybour</strong><br /><br />Architect Richard Claybour also starts from the position that one point of access at the foot of Ely Luther Smith park is not good enough. \\\"The park is 12 blocks long. We need many access points,\\\" he said. <br /><br />To get that access, he would eliminate Memorial Drive. When the new Mississippi River bridge is built for I-70, he said, the city won\\\'t need Memorial Drive anymore. He proposes to take it out and create more green space where the eastern lanes were and let the buildings downtown expand into the western lanes with new \\\"fronts\\\" that face the park. He proposes letting the east-west streets that currently terminate at Memorial Drive loop into the park so people can drive in, drop people off, and drive out; and he proposes putting in a new bridge at Spruce Street and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the Eads Bridge to the park.<br /><br />The maintenance building on the south end of the park and the garage at the north end are violations of the master plan, said Claybour, so he would replace the maintenance building and the top level of the garage with retail or mixed-use buildings that extend across the entire north and south edges of the park and out from the hillsides on the eastern side of the park on platforms over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and the levee.<br /><br />In the interior of the park, Claybour would replace the existing fenced-off reflecting ponds with a river feature that traverses the entire length of the park, like the river feature in Forest Park. And noting that half of the train tunnel is unused, he suggested using that space for a trolley to carry people from one end of the park to the other, or from Chouteau\\\'s Landing to the Arch and on to Laclede\\\'s Landing.<br /><br />However, more important than any particular idea, Claybour said, is that the city have a more open and public discussion about how to improve the riverfront and make the Arch truly part of St. Louis.<br /><br />\\\"There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work.\\\"<br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard C. Ward</strong><br /><br />Ward, Vice President with the Development Management Group of Zimmer Real Estate Services, said any realistic discussion of reanimating the riverfront \\\"has to start with the reality of what we have: a big ditch created by Corps of Engineers and dictated by demands of waterborne commerce. When water fills it up it is as mean as can be. . . .[and] the kind of thing that was proposed by the HOK team (in the Danforth Foundation report) went beyond the pale of reality,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Of the various ideas for the Arch grounds that are floating around, Ward is most taken with Berendzen\\\'s focus on the edges. He said that while many things could be done to animate the edges of the park, he likes the idea of a restaurant on one of the parapet overlooks in the southeast and northeast corners of the park. \\\"I think one of the great amenities of the park is the view of the river from the high parapets on either end of the park,\\\" he said.<br /><br />\\\"I would hate to lose passive park feel of center,\\\" he added. \\\"Idon\\\'t think it needs to be made into Disneyland. I see no need for the whole area to be animated and made a playground for visitors. One of great experiences I\\\'ve had is walking around the plaza and looking up at the Arch and appreciating what a great piece of art it is. That does not need to be mussed up,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Ward was dismissive of the idea of capping the I-70 trench. \\\"In Cincinnati, there is a wider highway in a ditch, but it is very pleasant to walk across,\\\" he said. \\\"People cross streets all the time; the issue is how it is designed.\\\" The Memorial Drive/I-70 should be \\\"re-polished\\\" to be more pleasant and less utilitarian, he said, but it does not need a lid and \\\"it does not have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:88:\"Walt Disney\\\'s plan for the St. Louis Riverfront was rejected by St. Louis civic leaders\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(183,79,4,2,1211307972,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-20 08:19 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"5\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Home Builders Donate to Rainbow Village\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:39:\"home_builders_donate_to_rainbow_village\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:39:\"Home Builders Donate to Rainbow Village\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:73:\"The Home Builders Charitable Foundation donated $6,768 to Rainbow Village\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:41:\"Home Builders Foundation, Rainbow Village\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:269:\"<p>The Home Builders Charitable Foundation gave $6,768 to Rainbow Village, a local non-profit that provides homes for people with developmental disabilities. 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Light the Night is an annual fundraising event held each fall to raise money for cancer research and patient services.<br /><br />The Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society holds walks each fall in approximately 240 communities across the United States and Canada. Participants carry illuminated balloons &ndash; white for survivors, red for supporters, and gold to remember a loved one, &ndash; to honor and commemorate lives touched by blood cancer. <br /><br />This year the walk will take place on September 12th, with walk locations in both Forest Park and St. Peters City Centre Park. The night&rsquo;s festivities include live entertainment, activities for children and refreshments. 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Six of the eight projects incorporated major commitments to sustainable, energy-conserving construction and operation in their building programs. <br /><br />The winners of the Regional Excellence Awards for this year are: Cardinal Glennon Children\\\'s Expansion; <br />Doisy Research Center at St. Louis University; Express Scripts; Frieze Harley Davidson; Kerr Foundation; <br />Monsanto Data Center; Moosylvania Marketing; and St. Louis Community College at Wildwood. <br /><br />The judges were Sarah Tetley of PGAV Architects, president, St. Louis Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Price Marr, manager, strategic sourcing, Ameren; George Azzani, president, Kaiser Electric; Stephen Bannes, professor and program director, graduate studies in construction management, Washington University; Rick Lodewyck, president, CDG Engineers; and Terry Simpson, senior project manager, Northstar Management Co.</p>\n<p><br /><img alt=\\\"2008 Regional Excellence judging at the offices of CNR\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"177\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/reg-ex-judge1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" title=\\\"judging\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><br /><br />The stated purpose of the awards, now in their 19th year, is to recognize projects completed in the last year that \\\"in sum, demonstrate excellence in design, excellence in construction, and a positive contribution to the St. Louis community.\\\" Awards are presented to the designer the general contractor/construction manager, and the owner for each project. 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The project, which was to include the former Dillards (Stix, Baer &amp; Fuller) department store building, the Macy&rsquo;s (Famous Barr) building, One City Centre, the Mercantile Library building, the former St. Louis Centre mall, and the Sixth Street garage, began as a smaller Pyramid project in 2006. Work on the project was supposed to begin in July 2006. When it did not, Pyramid announced a new start date in 2007, then in 2008, and then finally Pyramid was off the project. With each delay, the size of the project grew until it gained the attention of national newspapers, which pointed to the project as a sign that St. Louis was back growing again.<br /><br />Pyramid&rsquo;s real estate holdings include over 2 million square feet of space downtown. Other projects that left up in the air by Pyramid&rsquo;s departure from the development scene include Bankers Lofts on Washington Avenue, Leather Trades Lofts on Locust Street, the Arcade Building on Olive Street, and the Jefferson Arms on Tucker Avenue, all of them in downtown St. Louis. Charleston Square in the Lafayette Square neighborhood and the Metropolitan Building on Grand are two other projects that will be affected by Pyramid&rsquo;s withdrawal from development.<br /><br />Spinnaker Cos., Pyramid&rsquo;s partner on the conversion of the old Dillard&rsquo;s building into apartments and a small hotel, said that project will move forward. Other developers are eyeing different pieces of Pyrmad&rsquo;s holdings, but no other definite deals have been announced. 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Recipients of $2,500 scholarships included: <br /><br /><strong>Jessica Boedges</strong>, 18, sponsored by Fabick CAT, a senior at Rockwood Summit High School who plans to major in nursing.<br /><strong>Stephanie Quigley</strong>, 18, sponsored by Clayton Engineering, a senior at Troy Buchanan High School, who is planning to attend the University of Missouri &ndash; Columbia and major in physical therapy.<br /><strong>Brittany Schopper</strong>, 18, sponsored by Fred Weber, Inc., a senior at Northwest High School, who is planning to study psychology.<br /><strong>Katy Mueller</strong>, 20, sponsored by Hoette Concrete, a sophomore at Fontbonne University, who is majoring in special education and speech pathology.<br />&nbsp;<br />The following students received $1,500 scholarships: <br /><strong><br />Annalise Pfaff</strong>, 19, sponsored by Bussen Quarries, a sophomore at the University of Missouri &ndash; Rolla, who is majoring in the chemistry of science and technology. <br /><strong>Teah Bowzer</strong>, 18, sponsored by Dockler Excavating, a senior at Warrenton High School, who is planning to major in elementary special education.<br /><strong>Sarah Detzel</strong>, 27, sponsored by Fred Weber, Inc., who is attending Patricia Stevens College and majoring in interior design.<br /><strong>Edwin Grant</strong>, 22, sponsored by Kelpe Contracting, a junior at the University of Missouri &ndash; Rolla, who majoring in nuclear engineering.<br /><strong>Jennifer Schott</strong>, 18, sponsored by Kelpe Contracting, a senior at Lafayette High School, who is considering the field of pharmacy or pharmaceutical development.<br />&nbsp;<br />SITE&rsquo;s scholarships are funded by contributions from contractor members through SITE&rsquo;s industry fund, SITE Advancement Foundation, and voluntary contributions from associate members. 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Danforth explored several options and decided that nothing could be done without changes to the Arch grounds. Recently the National Park Service announced that it was open to considering that possiblity.  What follows are ideas for the St. Louis riverfront that CNR solicited from architects and planners who have thought deeply about the subject.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:56:\"riverfront, plan, Danforth, Disney, architects, planners\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:16857:\"<p>The St. Louis Riverfront:<br />What\\\'s the Attraction?<br /><br />Now that the South leg tram is repaired, visitors to St. Louis can once again travel to the top of the Gateway Arch and back down to the bottom. But a question that\\\'s been up in the air since the last piece of the catenary curve was put into place remains: Where do they go from there? A lot of creative minds have wrestled with that problem of St. Louis\\\' riverfront over the decades... including the creator of Mickey Mouse. <br /><br />Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any city until St. Louis leaders approached him in 1963. Disney pursued his proposed project for the site, \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" despite less-than-ideal financial projections, because of his Missouri roots and because of a desire to help create a lasting tribute to the pioneer statement that the Arch represented. But civic leaders presented him with a variety of financial hurdles, as well as pressure from August Busch and others to include beer and liquor sales in the project. Finally Disney moved on down the road to a flat piece of Florida scrub in Orlando.<br /><br />Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Chattanooga... The list of cities reviving their riverfront districts seems endless. One city missing from the list, however, is St. Louis. Despite numerous plans and 40 years of redevelopment, St. Louis\\\' riverfront remains a hidden, dirty, back alley. Is there any hope?<br /><br />On August 1, 2005, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to potentially transform the St. Louis riverfront in the vicinity of the Gateway Arch. The committee selected by the Danforth Foundation came up with plans for putting floating islands in the Mississippi River or terracing the levee and then concluded they weren\\\'t feasible. The Danforth Foundation, which pointed to Chicago\\\'s Millennium Park as its model for an active riverfront, then concluded than nothing could be done without major changes to the Arch grounds themselves.</p>\n<p><br />Former Sen. John C. Danforth, chairman of the Foundation, said, \\\"We are wasting our two most valuable assets: the Gateway Arch and our position on America\\\'s greatest river.\\\" He called for changing the way the Arch grounds are used to allow restaurants, ice skating, swimming, water fountains, and other activities.<br /><br /><strong>What\\\'s Next?</strong><br /><br />After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.<br />What follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.<br /><br /><strong>Eero Saarinen</strong><br /><br />Saarinen, the architect of the Arch, once wrote an account of a day at the Arch that anticipated a park full of activities, but activities related to the history of St. Louis and the West. In addition to the Old Courthouse, history museum, and tram ride up the Arch, he imagined a re-creation of a pioneer village set inside a forest on the north side of the park, a Colonial Williamsburg inspired collection of historic St. Louis buildings surrounding the Old Cathedral, formal gardens and an Architectural Museum.<br />He imagined at least three restaurants on the grounds: a \\\"levee restaurant\\\" on the north end by the river, a more centrally located \\\"River Restaurant,\\\" and a caf&eacute; set amidst the garden terraces atop the history museum.<br />He imagined a \\\"Campfire Theater\\\" inside a forest where park rangers would tell stories about the history of St. Louis. And he pictured an arcade near the levee, with a series of \\\"little courts\\\" where the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of the United States would be told through sculpture and painting.</p>\n<p><strong>Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><br />A vision that contrasts sharply with Danforth\\\'s comes from Lou Saur, principal of Saur Architects and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. Saur focuses on one problem-connecting the Arch grounds to downtown along the axis formed by the Old Courthouse and the Arch-in order to come up with a confined, doable project. <br />The core of his idea is a higher quality museum modeled after the underground World War Imuseum in Kansas City, a major cultural attraction on the order of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In essence, it would be a major expansion, renovation, and upgrade of the existing underground museum with a new entrance near Memorial Drive. He proposes a passenger drop-off from Memorial Drive and an auto loop to a new underground parking garage underneath Ely Luther Smith Park, and an elevated walkway over Memorial Drive for better pedestrian access from Smith Park to the Arch grounds. To complete the connection to the river, he proposes construction of an elevated pier extending from the top of the Grand Staircase over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and levee.<br /><br />\\\"I just don\\\'t see the Arch grounds as a Millennium Park,\\\" he said. \\\"Millennium Park is a Chicago experience. The Arch grounds should be a beautiful cultural experience. It is just incomplete,\\\" he added.<br /><br /><strong><br />HOK</strong><br /><br />HOK\\\'s Planning Group has worked on several plans for revitalizing the riverfront over the years, including the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Before the Danforth plan, HOK came up with the Chouteau Lake Plan to connect Arch to Forest Park.<br /><br />Chip Crawford, director of HOK\\\'s Planning Group, said the goal of all of such plans is \\\"to create something that is exciting enough and accessible enough to get people down there. . . . We\\\'ve proposed a number of things: restaurants, boat activities, ice skating, swimming, and educational activities.\\\"<br /><br />The new Mississippi River Bridge, he said, will create many opportunities for revitalizing the riverfront north of the Arch in Laclede\\\'s Landing. \\\" It will create a new front door to the city, closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than Soulard. That will create new opportunities for housing, etc.,\\\" he said.<br /><br />As for developing anything immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River, \\\"There are great challenges to building along a river as mighty as the Mississippi,\\\" he said. \\\"There is flooding; there are sediments; there is barge traffic, which most rivers don\\\'t have; there is turbulence and floating debris, which makes it very difficult. But north of the Arch, you could build-in a natural platform for housing and other development with parking on the lower levels.\\\"<br /><strong><br />Arcturis</strong><br /><br />Arcturis was involved with the Danforth study on the \\\"connector\\\" or lid over the I-70 trench. However, \\\"it is not the depressed section so much as Memorial Drive that is the challenge,\\\" said Vernon Remiger, chief operating officer of Arcturis. The City could move to redirect traffic from Memorial Drive, slow it down, and make Memorial Drive more pleasing to pedestrians, he said, but, \\\"since the National Park Service owns the land beneath it, whatever we do, we need National Park Service buy in.\\\"<br /><br />If the goal is to get a connection between downtown and the riverfront, \\\"the Arch grounds can\\\'t do it on their own,\\\" he said. \\\"What we need is a strong Laclede\\\'s Landing and a strong Chouteau\\\'s Landing,\\\" he said, referring to the areas just north and south of the Arch grounds. \\\"If we get that, then the connector piece between them is stronger.\\\" Both areas, he added, need some sort of residential life. Unfortunately, \\\"both areas are bounded by highways and a floodwall so that they are basically islands, which is what is keeping them from getting developed,\\\" he said. To get development started, \\\"We just need the National Park Service to give a little,\\\" he said. <br /><strong><br />Trivers</strong><br /><br />\\\"From architectural point of view the Arch is a great symbol, but symbols can only go so far to revitalize the city,\\\" said Andy Trivers, principal of Trivers Associates. \\\"In order for the Arch grounds to function they need some activity. We need to intensely develop the riverfront itself,\\\" he said.<br />\\\"We\\\'re a river city that has ignored its river. People gravitate to water. What was supposed to be a connector is now a divider. No one has a plan that will enliven the riverfront.\\\"<br />Trivers\\\' idea is for an elevated promenade over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard with stores and restaurants tucked into the hillside the supports the Arch grounds. \\\"We have to get out of flood plain,\\\" he said. \\\"We need a space from which to look out over the river to appreciate it.\\\"<br />\\\"In the grand scene of things we\\\'re talking about not that much money. We\\\'re only talking about the future of the city,\\\" he said.<br /><br /><strong><br />Vince Ebersoldt and Kevin Underwood</strong><br /><br />Vince Ebersoldt, principal of Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture, said that reconnecting downtown to the riverfront will take much more than just covering up the I-70 trench. \\\"Washington Avenue does a terrible job of connecting to Laclede\\\'s Landing, and there the highway is elevated,\\\" he said.<br /><br />His partner, Kevin Underwood, elaborated on that point, \\\"We need multiple points of access,\\\" he said. Chouteau\\\'s Landing has only one access point from downtown, he said, Chouteau Avenue. Between Chouteau Avenue and Market Street, a distance of over one mile, there is no way to get to the riverfront from the city. Access to Laclede\\\'s Landing from downtown is similarly restricted, and neither Laclede\\\'s Landing nor Chouteau\\\'s Landing offer direct access to the Arch grounds. <br />\\\"They have no connection with the park or the rest of the city,\\\" Underwood said. \\\"We have to establish connections with the park at the bookends and then provide reasons for people to go there, amenities like shopping, restaurants, etc.\\\"<br />Ebersoldt said that with Lumiere Casino open on the Laclede\\\'s Landing and Chivvis Development moving forward with plans for Chouteau\\\'s Landing, development will happen on the bookends. \\\"If not for the slowdown in the housing market Ithink we would see more activity there now,\\\" he said.<br />Ultimately, he added, \\\"the city needs to put more resources forward to come up with a real plan that really tries to improve tourism and integrates it with recreational lifestyles.\\\" <br /><br /><strong>John Berendzen</strong><br /><br />Berendzen, president of Fox Architects and past president of the AIA St. Louis, said he was \\\"tangentially involved\\\" with the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Although he agrees that the Arch grounds are underutilized, he said the real issue is not the center of the park, but the edges.<br /><br />\\\"Good urban design is all about the edge, I can\\\'t stress that enough,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch is a wonderful thing; the park is beautiful; but the problem is there are no edges that mean anything to any pedestrian. We have world\\\'s greatest sculpture and a beautiful garden and all the buildings that front it have turned their backs on it. They have their loading docks facing the park. It is atrocious. The front of the city is really the back of downtown. <br /><br />\\\"Our problem is not that we need a wonderful pedestrian connection; we need a thriving pedestrian, mercantile, and office environment surrounding park.\\\"<br />The first step, he said, is to get rid of I-70 in front of the park and do something to slow down and possibly reduce Memorial Drive. After that, he would take on the north and south edges of the park.<br /><br />\\\"I would be prone to developing a strip along those edges, particularly the northern edge that abuts Laclede\\\'s Landing. It would be great if we had buildings on the north side looking into the park,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch grounds and the garage have created a moat between the park and Laclede\\\'s Landing, so we have to take a slice out of the park and redevelop it to make a connection to the Landing. There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work,\\\" he said.<br /><strong><br />Richard Claybour</strong><br /><br />Architect Richard Claybour also starts from the position that one point of access at the foot of Ely Luther Smith park is not good enough. \\\"The park is 12 blocks long. We need many access points,\\\" he said. <br /><br />To get that access, he would eliminate Memorial Drive. When the new Mississippi River bridge is built for I-70, he said, the city won\\\'t need Memorial Drive anymore. He proposes to take it out and create more green space where the eastern lanes were and let the buildings downtown expand into the western lanes with new \\\"fronts\\\" that face the park. He proposes letting the east-west streets that currently terminate at Memorial Drive loop into the park so people can drive in, drop people off, and drive out; and he proposes putting in a new bridge at Spruce Street and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the Eads Bridge to the park.<br /><br />The maintenance building on the south end of the park and the garage at the north end are violations of the master plan, said Claybour, so he would replace the maintenance building and the top level of the garage with retail or mixed-use buildings that extend across the entire north and south edges of the park and out from the hillsides on the eastern side of the park on platforms over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and the levee.<br /><br />In the interior of the park, Claybour would replace the existing fenced-off reflecting ponds with a river feature that traverses the entire length of the park, like the river feature in Forest Park. And noting that half of the train tunnel is unused, he suggested using that space for a trolley to carry people from one end of the park to the other, or from Chouteau\\\'s Landing to the Arch and on to Laclede\\\'s Landing.<br /><br />However, more important than any particular idea, Claybour said, is that the city have a more open and public discussion about how to improve the riverfront and make the Arch truly part of St. Louis.<br /><br />\\\"There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work.\\\"<br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard C. Ward</strong><br /><br />Ward, Vice President with the Development Management Group of Zimmer Real Estate Services, said any realistic discussion of reanimating the riverfront \\\"has to start with the reality of what we have: a big ditch created by Corps of Engineers and dictated by demands of waterborne commerce. When water fills it up it is as mean as can be. . . .[and] the kind of thing that was proposed by the HOK team (in the Danforth Foundation report) went beyond the pale of reality,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Of the various ideas for the Arch grounds that are floating around, Ward is most taken with Berendzen\\\'s focus on the edges. He said that while many things could be done to animate the edges of the park, he likes the idea of a restaurant on one of the parapet overlooks in the southeast and northeast corners of the park. \\\"I think one of the great amenities of the park is the view of the river from the high parapets on either end of the park,\\\" he said.<br /><br />\\\"I would hate to lose passive park feel of center,\\\" he added. \\\"Idon\\\'t think it needs to be made into Disneyland. I see no need for the whole area to be animated and made a playground for visitors. One of great experiences I\\\'ve had is walking around the plaza and looking up at the Arch and appreciating what a great piece of art it is. That does not need to be mussed up,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Ward was dismissive of the idea of capping the I-70 trench. \\\"In Cincinnati, there is a wider highway in a ditch, but it is very pleasant to walk across,\\\" he said. \\\"People cross streets all the time; the issue is how it is designed.\\\" The Memorial Drive/I-70 should be \\\"re-polished\\\" to be more pleasant and less utilitarian, he said, but it does not need a lid and \\\"it does not have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:88:\"Walt Disney\\\'s plan for the St. Louis Riverfront was rejected by St. Louis civic leaders\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(211,78,2,2,1211907073,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"78\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-19 09:10 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:27:\"St.  Louis Riverfront Plans\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:25:\"st_louis_riverfront_plans\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:50:\"The St. Louis Riverfront: What\\\'s  the Attraction?\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:450:\"In 2005 Mayor Slay asked the Danforth Foundation for bold plans to transform the St. Louis Riverfront. Danforth explored several options and decided that nothing could be done without changes to the Arch grounds. Recently the National Park Service announced that it was open to considering that possiblity.  What follows are ideas for the St. Louis riverfront that CNR solicited from architects and planners who have thought deeply about the subject.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:56:\"riverfront, plan, Danforth, Disney, architects, planners\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:16970:\"<p>The St. Louis Riverfront:<br />What\\\'s the Attraction?<br /><br />Now that the South leg tram is repaired, visitors to St. Louis can once again travel to the top of the Gateway Arch and back down to the bottom. But a question that\\\'s been up in the air since the last piece of the catenary curve was put into place remains: Where do they go from there? A lot of creative minds have wrestled with that problem of St. Louis\\\' riverfront over the decades... including the creator of Mickey Mouse. <br /><br /><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any city until St. Louis leaders approached him in 1963. Disney pursued his proposed project for the site, \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" despite less-than-ideal financial projections, because of his Missouri roots and because of a desire to help create a lasting tribute to the pioneer statement that the Arch represented. But civic leaders presented him with a variety of financial hurdles, as well as pressure from August Busch and others to include beer and liquor sales in the project. Finally Disney moved on down the road to a flat piece of Florida scrub in Orlando.<br /><br />Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Chattanooga... The list of cities reviving their riverfront districts seems endless. One city missing from the list, however, is St. Louis. Despite numerous plans and 40 years of redevelopment, St. Louis\\\' riverfront remains a hidden, dirty, back alley. Is there any hope?<br /><br />On August 1, 2005, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to potentially transform the St. Louis riverfront in the vicinity of the Gateway Arch. The committee selected by the Danforth Foundation came up with plans for putting floating islands in the Mississippi River or terracing the levee and then concluded they weren\\\'t feasible. The Danforth Foundation, which pointed to Chicago\\\'s Millennium Park as its model for an active riverfront, then concluded than nothing could be done without major changes to the Arch grounds themselves.</p>\n<p><br />Former Sen. John C. Danforth, chairman of the Foundation, said, \\\"We are wasting our two most valuable assets: the Gateway Arch and our position on America\\\'s greatest river.\\\" He called for changing the way the Arch grounds are used to allow restaurants, ice skating, swimming, water fountains, and other activities.<br /><br /><strong>What\\\'s Next?</strong><br /><br />After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked Walter Metcalfe, Robert Archibald, and Peter Raven to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park and put a cover over the I-70 trench between the park and downtown. Metcalfe is former chairman of Bryan Cave, the law firm; Archibald is president and CEOof the Missouri Historical Society; and Raven is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement.<br />What follows are other ideas for the St. Louis riverfront from architects and planners who have thought deeply about it.<br /><br /><strong>Eero Saarinen</strong><br /><br />Saarinen, the architect of the Arch, once wrote an account of a day at the Arch that anticipated a park full of activities, but activities related to the history of St. Louis and the West. In addition to the Old Courthouse, history museum, and tram ride up the Arch, he imagined a re-creation of a pioneer village set inside a forest on the north side of the park, a Colonial Williamsburg inspired collection of historic St. Louis buildings surrounding the Old Cathedral, formal gardens and an Architectural Museum.<br />He imagined at least three restaurants on the grounds: a \\\"levee restaurant\\\" on the north end by the river, a more centrally located \\\"River Restaurant,\\\" and a caf&eacute; set amidst the garden terraces atop the history museum.<br />He imagined a \\\"Campfire Theater\\\" inside a forest where park rangers would tell stories about the history of St. Louis. And he pictured an arcade near the levee, with a series of \\\"little courts\\\" where the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of the United States would be told through sculpture and painting.</p>\n<p><strong>Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong><br />A vision that contrasts sharply with Danforth\\\'s comes from Lou Saur, principal of Saur Architects and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. Saur focuses on one problem-connecting the Arch grounds to downtown along the axis formed by the Old Courthouse and the Arch-in order to come up with a confined, doable project. <br />The core of his idea is a higher quality museum modeled after the underground World War Imuseum in Kansas City, a major cultural attraction on the order of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In essence, it would be a major expansion, renovation, and upgrade of the existing underground museum with a new entrance near Memorial Drive. He proposes a passenger drop-off from Memorial Drive and an auto loop to a new underground parking garage underneath Ely Luther Smith Park, and an elevated walkway over Memorial Drive for better pedestrian access from Smith Park to the Arch grounds. To complete the connection to the river, he proposes construction of an elevated pier extending from the top of the Grand Staircase over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and levee.<br /><br />\\\"I just don\\\'t see the Arch grounds as a Millennium Park,\\\" he said. \\\"Millennium Park is a Chicago experience. The Arch grounds should be a beautiful cultural experience. It is just incomplete,\\\" he added.<br /><br /><strong><br />HOK</strong><br /><br />HOK\\\'s Planning Group has worked on several plans for revitalizing the riverfront over the years, including the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Before the Danforth plan, HOK came up with the Chouteau Lake Plan to connect Arch to Forest Park.<br /><br />Chip Crawford, director of HOK\\\'s Planning Group, said the goal of all of such plans is \\\"to create something that is exciting enough and accessible enough to get people down there. . . . We\\\'ve proposed a number of things: restaurants, boat activities, ice skating, swimming, and educational activities.\\\"<br /><br />The new Mississippi River Bridge, he said, will create many opportunities for revitalizing the riverfront north of the Arch in Laclede\\\'s Landing. \\\" It will create a new front door to the city, closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than Soulard. That will create new opportunities for housing, etc.,\\\" he said.<br /><br />As for developing anything immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River, \\\"There are great challenges to building along a river as mighty as the Mississippi,\\\" he said. \\\"There is flooding; there are sediments; there is barge traffic, which most rivers don\\\'t have; there is turbulence and floating debris, which makes it very difficult. But north of the Arch, you could build-in a natural platform for housing and other development with parking on the lower levels.\\\"<br /><strong><br />Arcturis</strong><br /><br />Arcturis was involved with the Danforth study on the \\\"connector\\\" or lid over the I-70 trench. However, \\\"it is not the depressed section so much as Memorial Drive that is the challenge,\\\" said Vernon Remiger, chief operating officer of Arcturis. The City could move to redirect traffic from Memorial Drive, slow it down, and make Memorial Drive more pleasing to pedestrians, he said, but, \\\"since the National Park Service owns the land beneath it, whatever we do, we need National Park Service buy in.\\\"<br /><br />If the goal is to get a connection between downtown and the riverfront, \\\"the Arch grounds can\\\'t do it on their own,\\\" he said. \\\"What we need is a strong Laclede\\\'s Landing and a strong Chouteau\\\'s Landing,\\\" he said, referring to the areas just north and south of the Arch grounds. \\\"If we get that, then the connector piece between them is stronger.\\\" Both areas, he added, need some sort of residential life. Unfortunately, \\\"both areas are bounded by highways and a floodwall so that they are basically islands, which is what is keeping them from getting developed,\\\" he said. To get development started, \\\"We just need the National Park Service to give a little,\\\" he said. <br /><strong><br />Trivers</strong><br /><br />\\\"From architectural point of view the Arch is a great symbol, but symbols can only go so far to revitalize the city,\\\" said Andy Trivers, principal of Trivers Associates. \\\"In order for the Arch grounds to function they need some activity. We need to intensely develop the riverfront itself,\\\" he said.<br />\\\"We\\\'re a river city that has ignored its river. People gravitate to water. What was supposed to be a connector is now a divider. No one has a plan that will enliven the riverfront.\\\"<br />Trivers\\\' idea is for an elevated promenade over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard with stores and restaurants tucked into the hillside the supports the Arch grounds. \\\"We have to get out of flood plain,\\\" he said. \\\"We need a space from which to look out over the river to appreciate it.\\\"<br />\\\"In the grand scene of things we\\\'re talking about not that much money. We\\\'re only talking about the future of the city,\\\" he said.<br /><br /><strong><br />Vince Ebersoldt and Kevin Underwood</strong><br /><br />Vince Ebersoldt, principal of Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture, said that reconnecting downtown to the riverfront will take much more than just covering up the I-70 trench. \\\"Washington Avenue does a terrible job of connecting to Laclede\\\'s Landing, and there the highway is elevated,\\\" he said.<br /><br />His partner, Kevin Underwood, elaborated on that point, \\\"We need multiple points of access,\\\" he said. Chouteau\\\'s Landing has only one access point from downtown, he said, Chouteau Avenue. Between Chouteau Avenue and Market Street, a distance of over one mile, there is no way to get to the riverfront from the city. Access to Laclede\\\'s Landing from downtown is similarly restricted, and neither Laclede\\\'s Landing nor Chouteau\\\'s Landing offer direct access to the Arch grounds. <br />\\\"They have no connection with the park or the rest of the city,\\\" Underwood said. \\\"We have to establish connections with the park at the bookends and then provide reasons for people to go there, amenities like shopping, restaurants, etc.\\\"<br />Ebersoldt said that with Lumiere Casino open on the Laclede\\\'s Landing and Chivvis Development moving forward with plans for Chouteau\\\'s Landing, development will happen on the bookends. \\\"If not for the slowdown in the housing market Ithink we would see more activity there now,\\\" he said.<br />Ultimately, he added, \\\"the city needs to put more resources forward to come up with a real plan that really tries to improve tourism and integrates it with recreational lifestyles.\\\" <br /><br /><strong>John Berendzen</strong><br /><br />Berendzen, president of Fox Architects and past president of the AIA St. Louis, said he was \\\"tangentially involved\\\" with the plans from the Danforth Foundation. Although he agrees that the Arch grounds are underutilized, he said the real issue is not the center of the park, but the edges.<br /><br />\\\"Good urban design is all about the edge, I can\\\'t stress that enough,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch is a wonderful thing; the park is beautiful; but the problem is there are no edges that mean anything to any pedestrian. We have world\\\'s greatest sculpture and a beautiful garden and all the buildings that front it have turned their backs on it. They have their loading docks facing the park. It is atrocious. The front of the city is really the back of downtown. <br /><br />\\\"Our problem is not that we need a wonderful pedestrian connection; we need a thriving pedestrian, mercantile, and office environment surrounding park.\\\"<br />The first step, he said, is to get rid of I-70 in front of the park and do something to slow down and possibly reduce Memorial Drive. After that, he would take on the north and south edges of the park.<br /><br />\\\"I would be prone to developing a strip along those edges, particularly the northern edge that abuts Laclede\\\'s Landing. It would be great if we had buildings on the north side looking into the park,\\\" he said. \\\"The Arch grounds and the garage have created a moat between the park and Laclede\\\'s Landing, so we have to take a slice out of the park and redevelop it to make a connection to the Landing. There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work,\\\" he said.<br /><strong><br />Richard Claybour</strong><br /><br />Architect Richard Claybour also starts from the position that one point of access at the foot of Ely Luther Smith park is not good enough. \\\"The park is 12 blocks long. We need many access points,\\\" he said. <br /><br />To get that access, he would eliminate Memorial Drive. When the new Mississippi River bridge is built for I-70, he said, the city won\\\'t need Memorial Drive anymore. He proposes to take it out and create more green space where the eastern lanes were and let the buildings downtown expand into the western lanes with new \\\"fronts\\\" that face the park. He proposes letting the east-west streets that currently terminate at Memorial Drive loop into the park so people can drive in, drop people off, and drive out; and he proposes putting in a new bridge at Spruce Street and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the Eads Bridge to the park.<br /><br />The maintenance building on the south end of the park and the garage at the north end are violations of the master plan, said Claybour, so he would replace the maintenance building and the top level of the garage with retail or mixed-use buildings that extend across the entire north and south edges of the park and out from the hillsides on the eastern side of the park on platforms over Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard and the levee.<br /><br />In the interior of the park, Claybour would replace the existing fenced-off reflecting ponds with a river feature that traverses the entire length of the park, like the river feature in Forest Park. And noting that half of the train tunnel is unused, he suggested using that space for a trolley to carry people from one end of the park to the other, or from Chouteau\\\'s Landing to the Arch and on to Laclede\\\'s Landing.<br /><br />However, more important than any particular idea, Claybour said, is that the city have a more open and public discussion about how to improve the riverfront and make the Arch truly part of St. Louis.<br /><br />\\\"There has to be a reason for people to go there and it has to be office, residential, and mercantile mixed together or it won\\\'t work.\\\"<br /><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard C. Ward</strong><br /><br />Ward, Vice President with the Development Management Group of Zimmer Real Estate Services, said any realistic discussion of reanimating the riverfront \\\"has to start with the reality of what we have: a big ditch created by Corps of Engineers and dictated by demands of waterborne commerce. When water fills it up it is as mean as can be. . . .[and] the kind of thing that was proposed by the HOK team (in the Danforth Foundation report) went beyond the pale of reality,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Of the various ideas for the Arch grounds that are floating around, Ward is most taken with Berendzen\\\'s focus on the edges. He said that while many things could be done to animate the edges of the park, he likes the idea of a restaurant on one of the parapet overlooks in the southeast and northeast corners of the park. \\\"I think one of the great amenities of the park is the view of the river from the high parapets on either end of the park,\\\" he said.<br /><br />\\\"I would hate to lose passive park feel of center,\\\" he added. \\\"Idon\\\'t think it needs to be made into Disneyland. I see no need for the whole area to be animated and made a playground for visitors. One of great experiences I\\\'ve had is walking around the plaza and looking up at the Arch and appreciating what a great piece of art it is. That does not need to be mussed up,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Ward was dismissive of the idea of capping the I-70 trench. \\\"In Cincinnati, there is a wider highway in a ditch, but it is very pleasant to walk across,\\\" he said. \\\"People cross streets all the time; the issue is how it is designed.\\\" The Memorial Drive/I-70 should be \\\"re-polished\\\" to be more pleasant and less utilitarian, he said, but it does not need a lid and \\\"it does not have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/ears.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:88:\"Walt Disney\\\'s plan for the St. Louis Riverfront was rejected by St. Louis civic leaders\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(212,93,4,2,1211922730,'a:32:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-27 10:56 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:44:\"elsevier headquarters planned for  Riverport\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:43:\"elsevier_headquarters_planned_for_riverport\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:43:\"Elsevier Headquarters Planned for Riverport\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:211:\"Duke Realty Corporation (Duke)  has entered into an agreement to develop a built-to-suit, 146,000-square foot Class A suburban office building for Elsevier Inc., an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based global publisher.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:33:\"Elsevier, headquarters, Riverport\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2914:\"<p>Duke Realty Corporation (Duke)&nbsp; has entered into an agreement to develop a built-to-suit, 146,000-square foot Class A suburban office building for Elsevier Inc., an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based global publisher. This three-story office building will be built on nearly 11 acres of land as part of the Riverport Business Park development, in Maryland Heights.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"168\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Elsevier-East.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"300\\\" /></p>\n<p>Construction will begin this month. The wing-designed building will have a cafeteria, efficient 48,000-square foot floor plates, and more than 825 parking spaces. The building is expected to be completed in summer 2009.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />Sally Schrefer, Elsevier&rsquo;s lead local executive said of the agreement, \\\"We\\\'re delighted that this wonderful facility will allow us to bring together our Elsevier team in St Louis under one roof, with ample space for everyone in a well-designed and efficient space\\\".<br />&nbsp;<br />Scott Panzer, Principal of Newmark Knight Frank and head of its Strategic Occupancy Solutions (SOS) practice together with colleague Lisa Campofranco, negotiated the transaction on behalf of Elsevier.&nbsp; Whitaker Varley, Vice President of Leasing, represented Duke. Newmark Knight Frank&rsquo;s SOS practice provides global portfolio management, transaction negotiation and occupancy planning to a broad range of clients and has been representing Elsevier Inc., on a national basis for well over a decade.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />&ldquo;Duke was able to provide a corporate campus feel with an efficient and cost-effective floor plate design and with valuable &ldquo;Quality of Life&rdquo; amenities pertinent to Elsevier&rsquo;s employees.&nbsp; The combination of these factors met our client&rsquo;s goal to enhance productivity and reduce future costs,&rdquo; said Panzer. <br />&nbsp;<br />In St. Louis, Duke Realty Corporation (www.dukerealty.com) serves approximately 230 tenants in an industrial and office portfolio of nearly 7,400,000 square feet. Duke also has 526 acres of land for sale or future development in the greater St. Louis area.<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Newmark Knight Frank (www.newmarkkf.com) is one of the largest independent real estate service firms in the world. Headquartered in New York, Newmark Knight Frank operates from over 165 offices in established and emerging property markets on six continents</p>\n<p><br />Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier&rsquo;s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(213,92,2,2,1211929101,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"92\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-23 09:35 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:42:\"Generals Reassure Subcontractors on Market\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"generals_reassure_subcontractors_on_market\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:42:\"Generals Reassure Subcontractors on Market\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:196:\"General contractors told members of  the  Midwest Council, American Subcontractors Association  (ASA) that market conditions in the commercial industrial markets have  changed, but remain strong. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:49:\"ASA, subcontractors, general, construction market\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2654:\"<p><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/general-contractor.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />s have&nbsp; changed, but remain strong.&nbsp; Representatives of McCarthy Building Companies, Kadean Construction Companies, and J.E. Foster Company spoke at the ASA\\\'s annual \\\"Meet the Generals\\\" business meeting program. <br /><br />The three speakers were representatives of contractors who had received \\\"conractor of the year\\\" recognition in three different dollar volume categories.<br /><br />\\\"You don\\\'t need to worry in the near future,\\\" Paul Hartwig, senior vice president&nbsp; of&nbsp; McCarthy Building Companies. \\\"The country\\\'s doing well as far as we can see out,&nbsp; which is 4-5 years.\\\" <br /><br />Hartwig noted that the industrial sector is very strong with a number of large energy-related projects coming online and that area hospitals also have a strong commitment to building programs. \\\"Higher education will also continue strong,\\\" Hartwig stated.&nbsp; <br /><br />He said that the members of the St. Louis Construction Consumers Council recently reported that a \\\"record year\\\" for construction at members\\\' companies.<br /><br />Mike Eveler and Matt Breeze, principals at Kadean Construction, also stated that they expected continued growth in their company, which has doubled its volume in the last five years. Kadean builds across the commercial/industrial/institutional spectrum, but specializes in tiltup and distribution/light industrial projects.<br /><br />Joshua Foster, president of J.E.&nbsp; Foster said that his company\\\'s business mix has been turned on its head in 2008.&nbsp; J.E. Foster, which builds small commercial projects and tenant finishes booked 80 percent&nbsp; of its work in the commercial&nbsp; sector, including 33 stores for Starbucks last year. This year Joshua Foster said he expects to do only four projects for the coffee chain. Instead, 80 percent of the company\\\'s work will be&nbsp; bid educational, state, and municipal projects. <br /><br />All three generals credited the strong subcontractor community and training&nbsp; level of the&nbsp; workforce in&nbsp; St. Louis&nbsp; for their successes. On the Pinnacle hotel/casino&nbsp; project, Hartwig said,&nbsp; \\\"We put a million dollars of construction in place a day. We never would have been able to do that anywhere else in the country. There\\\'s a phenomenal culture of integrity and partnership here.\\\"<br /><br />Joshua Foster whose company has won contractor&nbsp; of the year honors from ASA multiple times said, \\\"We\\\'d never be where we are without the people in this room.\\\" <br /></p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:38:\"/images/uploads/general-contractor.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:51:\"General Contractors Assure Subcontractors on Market\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(214,92,2,2,1211929213,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"92\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-23 09:35 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:42:\"Generals Reassure Subcontractors on Market\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"generals_reassure_subcontractors_on_market\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:42:\"Generals Reassure Subcontractors on Market\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:196:\"General contractors told members of  the  Midwest Council, American Subcontractors Association  (ASA) that market conditions in the commercial industrial markets have  changed, but remain strong. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:49:\"ASA, subcontractors, general, construction market\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2827:\"<p><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/general-contractor.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />General contractors told members of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Midwest Council, American\nSubcontractors Association&nbsp; (ASA) that market conditions in the\ncommercial industrial markets have have&nbsp; changed, but remain strong.&nbsp; Representatives of McCarthy Building Companies, Kadean Construction Companies, and J.E. Foster Company spoke at the ASA\\\'s annual \\\"Meet the Generals\\\" business meeting program. <br /><br />The three speakers were representatives of contractors who had received \\\"conractor of the year\\\" recognition in three different dollar volume categories.<br /><br />\\\"You don\\\'t need to worry in the near future,\\\" Paul Hartwig, senior vice president&nbsp; of&nbsp; McCarthy Building Companies. \\\"The country\\\'s doing well as far as we can see out,&nbsp; which is 4-5 years.\\\" <br /><br />Hartwig noted that the industrial sector is very strong with a number of large energy-related projects coming online and that area hospitals also have a strong commitment to building programs. \\\"Higher education will also continue strong,\\\" Hartwig stated.&nbsp; <br /><br />He said that the members of the St. Louis Construction Consumers Council recently reported that a \\\"record year\\\" for construction at members\\\' companies.<br /><br />Mike Eveler and Matt Breeze, principals at Kadean Construction, also stated that they expected continued growth in their company, which has doubled its volume in the last five years. 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We never would have been able to do that anywhere else in the country. There\\\'s a phenomenal culture of integrity and partnership here.\\\"<br /><br />Joshua Foster whose company has won contractor&nbsp; of the year honors from ASA multiple times said, \\\"We\\\'d never be where we are without the people in this room.\\\"</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:38:\"/images/uploads/general-contractor.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:51:\"General Contractors Assure Subcontractors on Market\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(215,94,4,2,1211932544,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-27 01:52 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:33:\"wilson purchases concrete forming\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:33:\"wilson_purchases_concrete_forming\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:48:\"Wilson Concrete Purchases Concrete Forming, Inc.\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:84:\"Wilson Concrete has purchased the asssets of Bridgeton-based Concrete Forming, Inc. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:34:\"Wilson, Concrete Forming, purchase\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:751:\"<p>Wilson Concrete has purchased the assets of Bridgeton-based Concrete Forming, Inc.&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial terms were not disclosed.</p>\n<p>&ldquo;The acquisition enables us to augment our core concrete flatwork business with foundation construction to provide commercial, institutional and residential customers with single-source service,&rdquo; said Scott Inserra, president of Wilson Concrete.</p>\n<p>Concrete Forming was founded in 1984.&nbsp; It currently employs 20 people, all of whom will be retained by Wilson. Kent Nentwig will remain with the company during the transition period.</p>\n<p>Wilson Concrete employs 35 people and is based at 13084 Gravois Rd. in Sunset Hills. The expanded firm will operate from the Sunset Hills address.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"6\";}'),(216,95,5,2,1211934428,'a:24:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-27 02:18 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:44:\"St. Louis\\\' Lean, Green Construction Machine\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:40:\"st_louis_lean_green_construction_machine\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:44:\"St. Louis\\\' Lean, Green Construction Machine\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:1:\"4\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:273:\"In the face of a national economy buffeted by rising energy costs, financial market difficulties, and competition in many of the industries where the United States has traditionally led, the leadership that our St. Louis construction industry has shown is very encouraging.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:54:\"lean, green, Regional Excellence, subcontractors, Arch\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5688:\"<p>In the face of a national economy buffeted by rising energy costs, financial market difficulties, and competition in many of the industries where the United States has traditionally led, the leadership that our St. Louis construction industry has shown is very encouraging.<br /><br /><img class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"288\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Tom_stool_green.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"150\\\" />This leadership was demonstrated by the projects selected as winners of CNR\\\'s 2008 Regional Excellence Awards. There is a strong showing among our winners this year of of vision and capability in the areas of sustainability (\\\"green\\\" construction), \\\"lean\\\" cost-effective building techniques, and design and construction that recognizes the role of technology in our future. <br /><br />I want to thank our Editor Peter Downs; the St. Louis Chapter, National Association of Women in Construction; and our judges:&nbsp; Sarah Tetley of PGAV Architects, president, St. Louis Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Price Marr, manager, strategic sourcing, Ameren; George Azzani, president, Kaiser Electric; Stephen Bannes, professor and program director, graduate studies in construction management, Washington University; Rick Lodewyck, president, CDG Engineers; and Terry Simpson, senior project manager, Northstar Management Co. Their hard work and thoughtful consideration have made this year\\\'s awards something very special. <br />&nbsp;<br />&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br /><br /><br />An update to last month\\\'s cover story \\\"The St. Louis Riverfront: Where\\\'s the Attraction?\\\" brings very positive news. In the article, which can be found in its entirety on our website www.stlouiscnr.com/features/article/st_louis_riverfront_plans/, we presented a brief history of the area surrounding the Gateway Arch and some solutions proposed by area designers and planners.&nbsp; <br /><br />&nbsp;In 2005 Mayor Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to transform the St. Louis riverfront. After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked a blue-ribbon panel to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park. <br />\\\"Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement,\\\" the article reported.<br />&nbsp;<br />On May 8, after just a week on the job, Tom Bradley, the new superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial for the National Park Service announced that the National Park Service will begin public discussion for ways to reinvigorate the Arch grounds as encouraged by the Danforth Foundation. <br />An interview with Bradley (www.stlbeacon.org/issues_politics/development/arch_superintendent) on the St. Louis Beacon - the \\\"News That Matters\\\" website founded by refugees from the Post-Dispatch - presents a profile of thoughtful guy with strong experience in public/private partnerships involving the National Parks. <br /><br />Walter Metcalfe, former chairman of the law firm of Bryan Cave and a member of the taskforce appointed by Mayor Slay, seems to feel the same way. I received the following e-mail from him following Bradley\\\'s announcement:<br /><br />\\\"I enjoyed your \\\"Perspective,\\\" Metcalfe wrote (www.stlouiscnr.com/columns/article/st_louis_riverfront/) <br /><br />\\\"I recall the 1963-1964 conversations on Disney,\\\" he wrote.&nbsp; \\\"What if?\\\" today?<br /><br />\\\"Good commentary and dialogue in the article as well. Peter Raven, Bob Archibald and I have been working with the Danforth Foundation on public polling and economic studies to gain reality and hard information on what people will enjoy and what will keep people in the area after being attracted to the Arch, etc.&nbsp; <br /><br />\\\"To be continued, but not forever.\\\"<br /><br />&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br />General contractors told members of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Midwest Council, American Subcontractors Association&nbsp; (ASA) that market conditions in the commercial industrial markets have&nbsp; changed, but remain strong.&nbsp; Representatives of McCarthy Building Companies, Kadean Construction Companies, and J.E. Foster Company spoke at the ASA\\\'s annual \\\"Meet the Generals\\\" business meeting program.<br /><br />\\\"You don\\\'t need to worry in the near future,\\\" Paul Hartwig, senior vice president of McCarthy Building Companies. \\\"The country\\\'s doing well as far as we can see out, which is 4-5 years.\\\"<br /><br />Hartwig noted that the industrial sector is very strong with a number of large energy-related projects coming online and that area hospitals also have a strong commitment to building programs. <br /><br />Mike Eveler and Matt Breeze, principals at Kadean Construction, also stated that they expected continued growth in their company, which has doubled its volume in the last five years. <br /><br />Joshua Foster, president of J.E.&nbsp; Foster said that his company\\\'s business mix has been turned on its head in 2008, from 80 percent commercial to 80 percent bid educational, state, and municipal projects.<br /><br />All three generals credited the strong subcontractor community and the training level of the workforce in St. Louis for their successes. On the Pinnacle hotel/casino project, Hartwig said,&nbsp; \\\"We put a million dollars of construction in place a day. We never would have been able to do that anywhere else in the country. 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There is a strong showing among our winners this year of of vision and capability in the areas of sustainability (\\\"green\\\" construction), \\\"lean\\\" cost-effective building techniques, and design and construction that recognizes the role of technology in our future. <br /><br />I want to thank our Editor Peter Downs; the St. Louis Chapter, National Association of Women in Construction; and our judges:&nbsp; Sarah Tetley of PGAV Architects, president, St. Louis Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Price Marr, manager, strategic sourcing, Ameren; George Azzani, president, Kaiser Electric; Stephen Bannes, professor and program director, graduate studies in construction management, Washington University; Rick Lodewyck, president, CDG Engineers; and Terry Simpson, senior project manager, Northstar Management Co. Their hard work and thoughtful consideration have made this year\\\'s awards something very special. <br /><strong><br />An update to last month\\\'s cover story \\\"The St. Louis Riverfront: Where\\\'s the Attraction?\\\"</strong> brings very positive news. In the article, which can be found in its entirety on our website www.stlouiscnr.com/features/article/st_louis_riverfront_plans/, we presented a brief history of the area surrounding the Gateway Arch and some solutions proposed by area designers and planners.&nbsp; <br /><br />&nbsp;In 2005 Mayor Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to transform the St. Louis riverfront. After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked a blue-ribbon panel to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park. <br />\\\"Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement,\\\" the article reported.<br />&nbsp;<br />On May 8, after just a week on the job, Tom Bradley, the new superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial for the National Park Service announced that the National Park Service will begin public discussion for ways to reinvigorate the Arch grounds as encouraged by the Danforth Foundation. <br />An interview with Bradley (www.stlbeacon.org/issues_politics/development/arch_superintendent) on the St. Louis Beacon - the \\\"News That Matters\\\" website founded by refugees from the Post-Dispatch - presents a profile of thoughtful guy with strong experience in public/private partnerships involving the National Parks. <br /><br />Walter Metcalfe, former chairman of the law firm of Bryan Cave and a member of the taskforce appointed by Mayor Slay, seems to feel the same way. I received the following e-mail from him following Bradley\\\'s announcement:<br /><br />\\\"I enjoyed your \\\"Perspective,\\\" Metcalfe wrote (www.stlouiscnr.com/columns/article/st_louis_riverfront/) <br /><br />\\\"I recall the 1963-1964 conversations on Disney,\\\" he wrote.&nbsp; \\\"What if?\\\" today?<br /><br />\\\"Good commentary and dialogue in the article as well. Peter Raven, Bob Archibald and I have been working with the Danforth Foundation on public polling and economic studies to gain reality and hard information on what people will enjoy and what will keep people in the area after being attracted to the Arch, etc.&nbsp; <br /><br />\\\"To be continued, but not forever.\\\"</p>\n<p><br /><strong>General contractors told members of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Midwest Council, American Subcontractors Association</strong>&nbsp; (ASA) that market conditions in the commercial industrial markets have&nbsp; changed, but remain strong.&nbsp; Representatives of McCarthy Building Companies, Kadean Construction Companies, and J.E. Foster Company spoke at the ASA\\\'s annual \\\"Meet the Generals\\\" business meeting program.<br /><br />\\\"You don\\\'t need to worry in the near future,\\\" Paul Hartwig, senior vice president of McCarthy Building Companies. \\\"The country\\\'s doing well as far as we can see out, which is 4-5 years.\\\"<br /><br />Hartwig noted that the industrial sector is very strong with a number of large energy-related projects coming online and that area hospitals also have a strong commitment to building programs. <br /><br />Mike Eveler and Matt Breeze, principals at Kadean Construction, also stated that they expected continued growth in their company, which has doubled its volume in the last five years. <br /><br />Joshua Foster, president of J.E.&nbsp; Foster said that his company\\\'s business mix has been turned on its head in 2008, from 80 percent commercial to 80 percent bid educational, state, and municipal projects.<br /><br />All three generals credited the strong subcontractor community and the training level of the workforce in St. Louis for their successes. On the Pinnacle hotel/casino project, Hartwig said,&nbsp; \\\"We put a million dollars of construction in place a day. We never would have been able to do that anywhere else in the country. There\\\'s a phenomenal culture of integrity and partnership here.\\\"</p>\";}'),(218,95,5,2,1211934810,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:2:\"95\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-05-27 02:18 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"11\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:44:\"St. Louis\\\' Lean, Green Construction Machine\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:40:\"st_louis_lean_green_construction_machine\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:44:\"St. Louis\\\' Lean, Green Construction Machine\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:1:\"4\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:273:\"In the face of a national economy buffeted by rising energy costs, financial market difficulties, and competition in many of the industries where the United States has traditionally led, the leadership that our St. Louis construction industry has shown is very encouraging.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:54:\"lean, green, Regional Excellence, subcontractors, Arch\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5575:\"<p>In the face of a national economy buffeted by rising energy costs, financial market difficulties, and competition in many of the industries where the United States has traditionally led, the leadership that our St. Louis construction industry has shown is very encouraging<br /><br /><img class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"288\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Tom_stool_green.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"150\\\" />This leadership was demonstrated by the projects selected as winners of CNR\\\'s 2008 Regional Excellence Awards. There is a strong showing among our winners this year of of vision and capability in the areas of sustainability (\\\"green\\\" construction), \\\"lean\\\" cost-effective building techniques, and design and construction that recognizes the role of technology in our future. <br /><br />I want to thank our Editor Peter Downs; the St. Louis Chapter, National Association of Women in Construction; and our judges:&nbsp; Sarah Tetley of PGAV Architects, president, St. Louis Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Price Marr, manager, strategic sourcing, Ameren; George Azzani, president, Kaiser Electric; Stephen Bannes, professor and program director, graduate studies in construction management, Washington University; Rick Lodewyck, president, CDG Engineers; and Terry Simpson, senior project manager, Northstar Management Co. Their hard work and thoughtful consideration have made this year\\\'s awards something very special. <br /><strong><br />An update to last month\\\'s cover story \\\"The St. Louis Riverfront: Where\\\'s the Attraction?\\\"</strong> brings very positive news. In the article, which can be found in its entirety on our website www.stlouiscnr.com/features/article/st_louis_riverfront_plans/, we presented a brief history of the area surrounding the Gateway Arch and some solutions proposed by area designers and planners.&nbsp; <br /><br />&nbsp;In 2005 Mayor Slay asked the Danforth Foundation to develop bold plans to transform the St. Louis riverfront. After accepting the Danforth Foundation\\\'s report, Mayor Slay called for federal legislation to transfer ownership of portions of the 91 acres comprising the Arch grounds to a local entity. He asked a blue-ribbon panel to give him their best advice on what that entity would be and how to proceed with plans to \\\"activate\\\" the park. <br />\\\"Little has been heard publicly from them since the mayor\\\'s announcement,\\\" the article reported.<br />&nbsp;<br />On May 8, after just a week on the job, Tom Bradley, the new superintendent of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial for the National Park Service announced that the National Park Service will begin public discussion for ways to reinvigorate the Arch grounds as encouraged by the Danforth Foundation. <br />An interview with Bradley (www.stlbeacon.org/issues_politics/development/arch_superintendent) on the St. Louis Beacon - the \\\"News That Matters\\\" website founded by refugees from the Post-Dispatch - presents a profile of thoughtful guy with strong experience in public/private partnerships involving the National Parks. <br /><br />Walter Metcalfe, former chairman of the law firm of Bryan Cave and a member of the taskforce appointed by Mayor Slay, seems to feel the same way. I received the following e-mail from him following Bradley\\\'s announcement:<br /><br />\\\"I enjoyed your \\\"Perspective,\\\" Metcalfe wrote (www.stlouiscnr.com/columns/article/st_louis_riverfront/) <br /><br />\\\"I recall the 1963-1964 conversations on Disney,\\\" he wrote.&nbsp; \\\"What if?\\\" today?<br /><br />\\\"Good commentary and dialogue in the article as well. 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Foster Company spoke at the ASA\\\'s annual \\\"Meet the Generals\\\" business meeting program.<br /><br />\\\"You don\\\'t need to worry in the near future,\\\" Paul Hartwig, senior vice president of McCarthy Building Companies. \\\"The country\\\'s doing well as far as we can see out, which is 4-5 years.\\\"<br /><br />Hartwig noted that the industrial sector is very strong with a number of large energy-related projects coming online and that area hospitals also have a strong commitment to building programs. <br /><br />Mike Eveler and Matt Breeze, principals at Kadean Construction, also stated that they expected continued growth in their company, which has doubled its volume in the last five years. <br /><br />Joshua Foster, president of J.E.&nbsp; Foster said that his company\\\'s business mix has been turned on its head in 2008, from 80 percent commercial to 80 percent bid educational, state, and municipal projects.<br /><br />All three generals credited the strong subcontractor community and the training level of the workforce in St. Louis for their successes. On the Pinnacle hotel/casino project, Hartwig said,&nbsp; \\\"We put a million dollars of construction in place a day. We never would have been able to do that anywhere else in the country. 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This three-story office building will be built on nearly 11 acres of land as part of the Riverport Business Park development, in Maryland Heights.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"168\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Elsevier-East.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"300\\\" /></p>\n<p>Construction will begin this month. The wing-designed building will have a cafeteria, efficient 48,000-square foot floor plates, and more than 825 parking spaces. The building is expected to be completed in summer 2009.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />Sally Schrefer, Elsevier&rsquo;s lead local executive said of the agreement, \\\"We\\\'re delighted that this wonderful facility will allow us to bring together our Elsevier team in St Louis under one roof, with ample space for everyone in a well-designed and efficient space\\\".<br />&nbsp;<br />Scott Panzer, Principal of Newmark Knight Frank and head of its Strategic Occupancy Solutions (SOS) practice together with colleague Lisa Campofranco, negotiated the transaction on behalf of Elsevier.&nbsp; Whitaker Varley, Vice President of Leasing, represented Duke. Newmark Knight Frank&rsquo;s SOS practice provides global portfolio management, transaction negotiation and occupancy planning to a broad range of clients and has been representing Elsevier Inc., on a national basis for well over a decade.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />&ldquo;Duke was able to provide a corporate campus feel with an efficient and cost-effective floor plate design and with valuable &ldquo;Quality of Life&rdquo; amenities pertinent to Elsevier&rsquo;s employees.&nbsp; The combination of these factors met our client&rsquo;s goal to enhance productivity and reduce future costs,&rdquo; said Panzer. <br />&nbsp;<br />In St. Louis, Duke Realty Corporation (www.dukerealty.com) serves approximately 230 tenants in an industrial and office portfolio of nearly 7,400,000 square feet. Duke also has 526 acres of land for sale or future development in the greater St. Louis area.<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Newmark Knight Frank (www.newmarkkf.com) is one of the largest independent real estate service firms in the world. Headquartered in New York, Newmark Knight Frank operates from over 165 offices in established and emerging property markets on six continents</p>\n<p><br />Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. 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Making the announcement was Anthony Raineri, director of business development for the St. Louis, Mo.-based construction firm.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In his new position, Steele will estimate pre-construction budgets for selected projects.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior to joining Raineri Construction, Steele operated his own business for nine years. Before that, Steele was an estimator/project manager for Hensley Construction and a project manager for McCarthy Construction.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Raineri Construction, certified by the St. Louis Airport Authority as a Woman Business Enterprise, was founded in 2003 by Ashley Raineri. The firm focuses on turn-key design/build prime contracting and specialized subcontracting in the multifamily residential, commercial and industrial sectors. It employs more than 30 people. 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Raymond Hefner, Executive Vice President of the Plumbing Industry Council echoed McClimens sentiments stating &ldquo;this is just another way that licensed, union plumbing contractors give something back to the community by providing quality repairs and installations to those who are in some cases living in unsafe conditions.&nbsp; We are proud to participate in this worthwhile event and assist those St. Louisans who would otherwise not be able to afford quality plumbing repairs.&rdquo;<br />Rebuilding Together is made possible by the extensive volunteer work of many contractor members of the Plumbing Industry Council and Plumbers&rsquo; and Pipefitters&rsquo; Local562.</p>\n<p>Initially, retired tradespersons go to the properties and evaluate the situation and identify the needs of the homes chosen for the event. A tradesperson is then assigned to each home being renovated as the captain. 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On June 9 the Finishing Trades Institute (FTI) of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) is hosting the launch of a program designed to teach traditional craft painters new and innovative techniques and materials in decorative finishes.<br />&nbsp;<br />St. Louisan Richard Swaringen, formerly an instructor with Painters District Council #2 and now with Koch Brothers Painting, helped Chicago IUPAT District Council #14 Instructor Mike Krawiec plan a curriculum to teach Decorative Finishes to painters nationwide through the FTI, said Tim Klotz, apprenticeship coordinator for District Council #2. &ldquo;St. Louis has always won top places in decorative finishing contests in the union,&rdquo; Klotz said. &ldquo;For the last five years, apprentices from St. Louis and Chicago have demonstrated decorative finishes at the IUPAT both at PACE, the annual painting industry trade show,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Swaringen and Krawiec talked a lot about creating a national training program and Krawiec ran with the ball,&rdquo; he added. <br /><br />Dan Penski, director of the FTI, said, &ldquo;The IUPAT is the clear leader in putting skilled commercial and industrial painters on jobs throughout the United States and Canada. 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These preliminary alternatives have their foundation in the purpose and significance of the Memorial as stated in the executive order that established the Memorial.&nbsp;&nbsp;The five alternatives identified to date are:</p>\n<p>1.) No action (provided as a baseline against which the other<br />alternatives are assessed);</p>\n<p>2.) Connections;</p>\n<p>3.)<br />Expanded Programming; Alternative</p>\n<p>4.) Portals; and Alternative</p>\n<p>5.) Park into the City.<br /><br />Requests to be added to the project mailing list should be sent by mail to Superintendent, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 11 North 4th Street,<br />St. Louis, Missouri 63102; by telephone to 314-655-1600; or by e-mail. A newsletter will be issued within the next 30 days which will outline in greater detail the identified potential management options for public reviewand comment. 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On June 9 the Finishing Trades Institute (FTI) of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) is hosting the launch of a program designed to teach traditional craft painters new and innovative techniques and materials in decorative finishes.<br />&nbsp;<br />St. Louisan Richard Swaringen, formerly an instructor with Painters District Council #2 and now with Koch Brothers Painting, helped Chicago IUPAT District Council #14 Instructor Mike Krawiec plan a curriculum to teach Decorative Finishes to painters nationwide through the FTI, said Tim Klotz, apprenticeship coordinator for District Council #2. &ldquo;St. Louis has always won top places in decorative finishing contests in the union,&rdquo; Klotz said. &ldquo;For the last five years, apprentices from St. Louis and Chicago have demonstrated decorative finishes at the IUPAT both at PACE, the annual painting industry trade show,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Swaringen and Krawiec talked a lot about creating a national training program and Krawiec ran with the ball,&rdquo; he added. <br /><br /><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/faux-finisher.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Dan Penski, director of the FTI, said, &ldquo;The IUPAT is the clear leader in putting skilled commercial and industrial painters on jobs throughout the United States and Canada. 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