State-Owned Retail Space on 9th Street Finally For Lease
In October last year I posted about a downtown hotel that used a state-owned retail storefront rent-free for a decade. Then in December I noted the storefront was being emptied of the hotel’s stuff, they used it for long-term storage. Since December I kept expecting to see a for lease sign go up. Finally on Monday I spotted the sign!
From the flyer:
- 3,663 SF retail space available
- Great spot for causal restaurant
- Surrounded by office building and hotels
- AT&T Corporate Campus, Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel, Mayfair Plaza, Thompson Coburn
- Located in the St. Louis Convention Center Hotel Garage
- With 5 blocks radius: 3,965 residents, 30,700 workers, 6,448 hotel rooms
- Visibility from Locust
- One block North of Schnucks Culinaria, the #1 downtown grocery store
Short-term on-street parking is still needed in front of this space, and the retail spaces in the former Board of Education building to the immediate south. Right now the city has the parking lane marked as no parking but also no driving, I don’t get the logic behind leaving a full lane completely unused.
Hopefully this will get leased soon so the state can get revenue ($54,945/year) and a long-vacant storefront gets activated.
— Steve Patterson
It’s perfect for a pharmacy/apothecary shop. Put a green lighted cross like in pharmacies in Europe: https://www.google.be/search?q=pharmacy+europe&rlz=1C1SKPH_enUS395&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=HccMUsvYFaau7AaNnoHQBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=653#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=yfVqS46HHwAzOM%3A%3BOG-HzsknH1lo3M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fblog.ricksteves.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F10%252FFrench-pharmacy1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fblog.ricksteves.com%252F%253Fp%253D8231%3B600%3B400
also:
https://www.google.be/search?q=pharmacy+europe&rlz=1C1SKPH_enUS395&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=HccMUsvYFaau7AaNnoHQBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=653#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=a5a051cf92a2ac23&q=green+lighted+cross+pharmacy+europe&sa=1&tbm=isch&imgdii=_
I like it, think a small pharmacy could compete with Schnucks in the next block south?
Thanks.
I think competition would be good and I don’t believe that Schnucks (Culinary) would close simply because of dropped sales in its pharmacy. I don’t think there would be dropped sales anyway because it seems the population of downtown grows and so does the need to have a second pharmacy. It’s important to have a pharmacy seen from the street in every city and especially in a downtown where there are tourists. I travelled a lot in Europe and sometimes needed medicine quickly. If I’ve never been to a certain city before, I don’t know where to go. But if I see a lighted green cross, I know that’s a pharmacy.
I would like to see an independent pharmacy in this spot, not a chain. We do not need anymore chains anywhere. End the tyranny of extreme capitalism.
Everyone seems to be forgetting the Walgreens at 44/55 with it’s pharmacy. I just don’t think a pharmacy, an independent at that, will be viable. Sure there are a few still around but they are a dying breed. Especially with today’s Express Scripts/Walgreens/CVS’s. It’s the pressure of the insurance and pharma companies. But enough of that
Perhaps a small florist? Wine or cheese shop (and not one for the 44 malts)? Card or gift shop? Maybe a dog groomer? Even a real estate agent. A host of possibilities that could be local owned.
Great! All thanks to your good old fashioned muckraking. Keep it up!
If they removed that glass and got rid of the curb, this could add a few much needed parking spaces.to downtown.