Illinois is a vital component in transforming the Arch grounds
Ken Salazar was among the tourists who visited the Gateway Arch for the first time in July. He got the deluxe tour, inasmuch the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is a national park and Mr. Salazar, a former Democratic…
Obama makes Arch project, Metro East connection, a “priority” — sets 2015 deadline, will “move heaven and earth” to finish sooner
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in town yesterday afternoon, ostensibly to talk about federal spending for job creation and economic recovery. But it turns out he had monumental plans,…
Championing urban national parks
St. Louis is on today’s itinerary for Ken Salazar, the former Democratic senator from Colorado whom President Barack Obama appointed as the nation’s 50th Secretary of the Interior.
It’s a stop in a series of low-key visits the secretary is…
Let’s get the riverfront design competition rolling
Packing heat at the Arch
Eero Saarinen shows the way to the Arch grounds’ next phase
“Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” a major retrospective on the brilliant career of the Finnish-American architect, closed Monday after a lengthy run at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
The…
The Arch unbounded
Caution on potential Arch companion
Why not close Memorial Drive?
Would be Saarinens to show their work
The student design proposals for the St. Louis Arch Grounds/Riverfront will be on display December 3, 2008 to January 15, 2009 at Architecture St. Louis/Landmarks Association, 911 Washington Ave., St. Louis.
R.S.V.P for opening reception, to be held Wednesday, December 3, 2008,…
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Arch planning nods, but doesn’t bow, to Wall Street
Michael Allen’s terrific blog Ecology of Absence reported that “Late last week, John Danforth sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne stating that the Danforth Foundation no longer intends to build a museum on the…
Tension on the St. Louis riverfront
Former U.S. Sen. John Danforth has exhorted the St. Louis region to “think big” about the future of two of its transcendent assets — the Gateway Arch and the Mississippi riverfront.
He sees both as moribund, for…
Thoughts on Arch planning
The National Park Service has released its proposed “preferred alternative” for a new management plan for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
The document’s purpose is to set out the operating principles and objectives for the Gateway Arch, Arch grounds, Old…
Obama - from the back of the crowd (updated)
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The Secret Service estimated 80,000 people. The city police say 100,000.
Whatever the number, the Gateway Arch grounds easily accommodated a very big crowd for Barack Obama this afternoon.
I had signed up for press credentials, which would have…
Arch meditations
A group of advocates for our National Parks met with members of the editorial board yesterday.
The topic was Sen. John Danforth’s and the Danforth Foundation’s call to transform public access to the Arch grounds and challenge to think big about how Eero…
Arch cultural companion: Testament to tomorrow
Let me repeat my prejudices:
I think Sen. John Danforth’s and the Danforth Foundation’s big idea of developing a brilliant cultural institution as a companion to the Gateway Arch — housed in a structure and situated at a place on the Arch grounds…
Friday editorial: Top shelf
We’re susceptible here in St. Louis to what might be called “fix-a-phobia” — a nervous condition caused by deep and sometimes justified concern that civic decisions are preordained by the community’s power elite.
The ongoing effort to rethink public access between downtown…
Cultivating ‘grounds for change’
I became fully repatriated to St. Louis yesterday, as moving trucks arrived and unloaded all my and my family’s stuff at our new home in St. Louis’ Shaw Neighborhood.
This represents the second time I have…
Thursday editorial: Something big?
It will be recalled that what became the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and Gateway Arch began in late 1933 when Luther Ely Smith, a prominent Republican lawyer and civic activist, peered out of a train window at the shabby St. Louis…














