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Students pitch award-winning ideas for St. Louis riverfront
By Joey Schneider,
2024-05-22
ST. LOUIS – A riverfront stadium planned to keep the NFL Rams in St. Louis never came to be, and the land once desired for that venue is largely unused.
The competition consists of students from 26 universities who are tasked with creating a high-profile development or redevelopment project in the Midwest. Each group focused on the same case site in the St. Louis riverfront.
Around that site, there are several abandoned buildings. These include vacant spots known to locals as the Laclede Power Company building, the Cotton Belt Freight Depot building, and the Peerless Building.
The area also consists of Rootwad Park, which consists of sculptural elements inspired by City Museum founder Bob Cassilly, and connections to the St. Louis Riverfront Trail, which bicyclists can take all the way to the Chain of Rocks bridge.
Graduate students from the University of Notre Dame and undergraduate students from Tulane University both earned $7,500 scholarships for their presentations on the St. Louis Riverfront. An undergraduate team from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock came in a close second to Tulane. These were among their ideas…
Turn the Cotton Freight Depot building into an apartment complex facing the river.
Transform the Peerless Building into a site for ziplines, rope courses, and similar activities.
Create a craft brewery at the Sonn Signs & Decals, Inc. building.
Apartments, retail space, and a climate-controlled storage facility in an existing building.
Create an amphitheater and a Schnucks grocery store in unused space.
Students were tasked with making a plan that would generate a 20% investment return on the property, follow zoning policies within St. Louis, and meet community needs.
Projects in the featured presentations came with an estimated construction price tags of $138 million to $247 million.
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