Once completed, this museum will not falter - especially if an educational component is geared towards the young and old. There will be live entertainment and theater as well.
Plus, this museum will be less than a mile from The Gateway Arch, just blocks away from the LaClede's Landing entertainment district, a block away from the convention center and it sits directly on Washington Avenue serviced by MetroLink. It's destined to get a lot of traffic.
As far as Blues museums go, there is nothing like it in St. Louis, in the south or anything even close to it in the Midwest at this time.
As for brick-and-mortar museums dedicated to music in the Midwest, Detroit has Motown/Hitsville. Kansas City has its Jazz Museum. Cleveland, of course, has the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. St. Louis has the Scott Joplin House. But there is not a "Blues" museum anywhere that would rise to the level of this one - at least not yet - so this should allow for it to have a long life.
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