Kolek planning to go pro
I've been in St. Louis a few times in the last 2 years.There is only one bar left open in Laclede's Landing.At 7pm on a Friday night the only activity downtown was kids skateboarding down the main streets - and doing some cool acrobatics on the skateboards.The soulard is almost dead. A few restaurants remain, but almost nothing of the old bar/club/music scene. Most of the buildings downtown have zero or almost zero occupancy.Very few coffee shops or other services downtown.Of course most of the old St. Louis companies are either dead or acquired with the acquisition moving the HQ elsewhere. The remaining center of commerce is now in Clayton - which has almost completely replaced the old St Louis downtown as the center for banking and offices. The only two things remaining downtown are the stadiums. The rest of it could easily just be a park.
That's too bad WarriorFan. I've always thought St Louis was a really cool, underrated city. Broadway Oyster Bar followed by too many at McGurk's is an ideal night. Last time I was there, I went to a Cards game and will admit the surrounding area was underwhelming and showing signs of emptying out. Is part of the issue that St Louis is just too sprawly? When you're there, it seems like the kind of place that would benefit from higher concentrated density.