Comments on: The St. Louis Hills Office Center Stands Alone

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:14:00 +0000

Way to go Stevens I like seeing a project move along in our neighborhood. Revitalization is a great thing. Please leave Donna Barringer out of the project all together. Donna Barringer blowing her mouth and bring jokesters to the table no way. Maybe she can get another tanning salon or Starbucks in the area. A vote for Donna is a vote against the community.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:54:00 +0000

The residents of St. Louis Hills are going to be WAY too busy putting up their garish Christmas decorations to be concerned with this. When those come down, planning gets underway for the endless season of block parties.
SC

By: Vanishing STL

Vanishing STL — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:41:00 +0000

It will be interesting to see what happens here. With two thirds of the building demolished, they are left with only about 4,500 square feet per floor minus elevator, stairs, and lobby, which would make the building not very efficient for most uses, given the amount of money they have already poured into the project for demolition. In order to make the numbers work, I would think they would need to build a new addition where the long wing was located, making use of the elevator and stairs of the remaining original. This could be a great opportunity to do a complimentary modern addition to the original… something that has better windows. Unfortunately the design of the original building, with the small highly placed windows that you see in many medical buildings of that era, is not really conducive to what people want today for office or living space.

By: Digitizdat

Digitizdat — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:19:00 +0000

I think the long diagonal parking garage balanced out that big front block structure in a way that was appropriate to the style, and I thought very appealing. It looks too heavy w/out it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:05:00 +0000

I grew up in the area and have enjoyed following this story on your site. I have always thought in intersting the four and five story buildings (often for doctors groups) that were built along watson road.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:31:00 +0000

Thanks Toby! This is great news for the area.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:38:00 +0000

Thanks for the update. What would be nice is if they constructed a mirror of what’s left (essentially a truncated version of the original building without the garage,) except with a more restrained stairwell at the end facing the parking lot.