Filling in Midtown
In April 2011 ground was broken on a new building in midtown:
St. Louis broke ground April 15 for a new $12 million building project that will feature the studios and offices of St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU and classrooms for the rapidly expanding field of new media. (Source)
The building at 3651 Olive Street was taking shape last month when I passed by.
The building site was a parking lot for many years.
It has been a slow process of filling in the holes in the urban fabric along Olive between Grand & Spring. The opposite side of Olive is unfortunately dominated by a parking garage. Surface parking lots at both ends are opportunities to build bookends to the garage. If we view parking lots as building sites rather than a permanent fixture we can slowly convert our streets to pleasant places.
– Steve Patterson