Here is a link to an article about it https://www.statesman.com/news/2019...e-of-austin-fc-precourt-sports-president-says
MLS to 30. Sac & STL authorized for advanced negotiations. MLS wants anmouncement by ASG at least. Hurry up so Sac can start building! https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/04/18/mls-announces-plans-expand-30-teams
New info and renderings on new St. Louis MLS Stadium Revealed 22,500 Seating capacity of open-air stadium, with ability to expand to 25,000 https://mls4thelou.com/
Roof design looks cool, but I'd hate to be in one of the corners that are not covered. Why leave those open?
Yes but is there a guy in a generic team jersey standing and holding a scarf while partially blocking the shot from the upper NW corner stands ?
Because it looks cool and these things shouldn't all look the same and supposedly the stadium will link a couple downtown St Louis features citizens view with pride.
The proposed St. Louis stadium looks more similar to every other recent MLS stadium than not. St. Louis is an old city built primarily of brick. This monstrosity looks like an alien space ship landed there.
Well, form does follow function. IMO most new mid-size sedans look more similar to every other recent mid-size sedan than not. We're seeing successive iterations of small-mid size soccer stadiums built within about a decade of each other, designed by a lot of the very same folks because they've been at all these junctures of design and budget before. The fact that MLS owners are largely funding their own stadiums no doubt propels the drive for efficiency / cost control. I don't see a monstrosity here but agree it might be nice to have a "retro" looking MLS stadium for a change - especially for a club that's emphasizing it's deep soccer history (pro soccer teams back in 1907!) Maybe St Lou's owners can buy back some of the beautiful, looted St Louis brick sold underhandedly to decorate McMansions in Texas. Maybe the city can demand that the owners make some aesthetic/material upgrades, as happened in Orlando. If I recall correctly, Orlando city council, at a late hurdle, thought the proposed soccer stadium literally looked too cheap, so they insisted on something better as part of their approval.
The other thing I've noticed is people in some cities want EXACTLY some of that MLS stuff we're tired of. I cringed so hard when Salt Lake called itself "Real," and KC rebranded to "Sporting," and Cincinnati went predictably FC and even Madison did a fan poll for its club name and could not avoid FC. But they knew their respective markets. St. Louis might think they have more than enough heritage and old brick. They might well think a ball park with "retro" styling is a dire cliche, and want a glowing space ship to land in downtown St. Louis to signal things have changed, things are different and revitalized. They might point at Allianz or the new Cincy thing happening and say...
Like any city, St. Louis is best understood by visiting its neighborhoods. https://explorestlouis.com/things-to-do/neighborhoods/
Maybe. But a comparison of the current Busch Stadium, circa 2006, with its predecessor suggests the opposite.
They can have SeatGeek. Anyone from StL want to trade? Though FWIW, hard to tell from the rendering posted here, but where are the suites/premium seats?
Plus, FWIW, the stadium is going in next to the old Union Station, which is kind of a mix of old and new architectural styles. Some of the old *neighborhoods* are very brick and historic looking, but I'm not sure that's something I'd totally describe downtown as. Plus, done wrong you get the aesthetics of the Edward Jones Dome, or whatever they're calling it now, that looks neither historic, nor even good. /IIRC, the stadium site will be to the right of the bottom picture.
Looking east along Market Street toward downtown and the Arch. Union Station is the red-roofed building on the right. A space ship in the foreground would be out of place, even if red-brick is dispensed with. Also, I know downtown is an elastic concept, but in my mind, Union Station is not in downtown St. Louis.
https://mls4thelou.com/ "Connecting Forest Park to the Gateway Arch. The open-air stadium will be centrally located in St. Louis Downtown West. Our proposed MLS stadium will sit within a resurgent corridor downtown that will ultimately connect The Gateway Arch to Forest Park, two of our most iconic civic spaces." FWIW, I'd start by rebranding "The Lou" for cryin' out loud.
The old-real-estate-marketing-speak. Kind of like San Francisco's Tenderloin is in Greater Pacific Heights.
Or Denver's Five Points neighborhood is being called "RiNo" (short for "River North") by gentrifiers real-estate developers.