Plans were announced several years ago for renovation of the old Falstaff brewery complex at Spring and Forest Park in Midtown, but recently, it looks like one part of the project — a proposed pub and grill, and perhaps even a “brewpub,” according to some rumors — is moving forward, with workmen on site. (Another rumor says that the pub will have a firehouse theme.)

As of 2006, the complex was owned by Robert Hermann Holton, a descendant of the Busch family. The city assessor’s office still shows Holton as the owner. It dates as a brewery to 1909 and served as a Falstaff facility from 1922 until the last beer was brewed there in 1959. (There’s a nice Falstaff stained glass above the door at 3690.) The complex is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Big Brothers Big Sisters formerly occupied the space at 3690. Warehouses at or near the facility have been used for more than a century as a storage facility for the Veiled Prophet organization.