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Originally Posted by Emprise du Lion
In terms of residential buildings, Studio Gang's 100 Above the Park is currently under construction in the CWE for example, and it's the tallest building located outside of downtown in the city at 385ft. It's some 51ft taller than One Cardinal Way currently under construction in downtown. |
and together with the 400' centene plaza 2 out in clayton, that gives st. louis 3 recent 300+ foot skyscrapers built in 3 distinct highrise districts, all roughly 4 miles apart, in a line.
i can't think of any other midwest city that has a similar set-up regarding recent highrise construction.
the only one that comes close is the twin cities with its downtown minneapolis/downtown st. paul poles.
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Originally Posted by edale
East St. Louis and the shitty nature of the IL side of STL Metro probably hurts Downtown STL a lot. Downtown feels like it's kind of on the edge of the world given the nothingness that exists across the river. The fact that Northern Kentucky is healthy and home to the airport certainly helped Downtown Cincinnati remain important in a way that it surely would have lost given the northern sprawl of that metro.
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good point.
in st. louis' case, the fact that Lambert is only ~6.5 miles from downtown clayton, but ~12.5 miles from downtown st. louis, is probably another selling point for clayton.