From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Last week former U.S. Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo, and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay proposed asking the U.S. Congress to return the 91 acres of the Gateway Arch grounds to local control and that the Arch grounds be integrated with downtown St. Louis via a three-block “lid” over the depressed lanes of Interstate 70. On Friday, Mr. Danforth elaborated on the proposal in an interview with Kevin Horrigan of the Editorial Page staff.
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From the Planetizen:
In a bid to revive the city’s downtown and riverfront, some St. Louis officials want to reclaim some of the 91 pastoral acres now dedicated for the Gateway Arch National Park.
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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Sixty years ago, when a 37-year-old Finnish-born architect named Eero Saarinen entered an international competition to design a monument in St. Louis to America’s western expansion, he asked a young landscape architect named Dan Kiley to help design the monument’s grounds.
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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
When a group of prominent St. Louisans persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to convert 37 blocks of riverfront real estate into a national park, it was a coup that embodied the spirit of the New Deal Era.
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From STLConstruct.net:
An article in the October 6 New York Times, “From Empty Lots To Bustling Waterfront,” praised the way in which the city of Boston has developed a plan for 1,000 acres of dormant industrial land around its harbor. “A lot of folks had hopes for 25 years,” said Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. “That dream has become a reality.”
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From AssociatedContent.com:
The gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri was conceived in 1947 when an architect named Eero Saarinen won a competition to create a memorial to the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the country’s expansion out to the west. Fifteen years later the Arch was completed in 1965 at a cost of only $15 million and without the aid
of computers.
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From the World News Network:
Mayor Francis Slay and former Sen. John Danforth, hoping to revamp the city’s riverfront, want to convince thepublic and the federal government there isonly one way to do it: obtain part of the Archgrounds.
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From BND.com:
The towering Gateway Arch “stands in splendid isolation,” too far removed from downtownwith too little activity around it, according to a report by a foundation headed by former Sen.John Danforth that proposes obtaining part of the Arch grounds from the federal government.
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