Word: riverfront
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deco train terminal, headed for demolition, was turned into an elegant shopping center. In midtown St. Louis, Partners is promoting the restoration of two historic theaters for performing arts' use. This week in Richmond, local design students, prodded by Partners, will sketch ideas for improving the dowdy riverfront in hopes of stirring up local interest in salvaging the area...
...convention center was completed in 1977, and three major high-rise office buildings are now under construction. Private developers have rehabilitated buildings in the historic Soulard Market district and created Laclède's Landing, a cobblestoned riverfront enclave of restaurants and shops. A number of longtime St. Louis firms have declared their intention of staying in town and helping. Among them is Anheuser-Busch, the giant brewer whose world headquarters now sprawls across 70 square blocks, including the site where it was founded in 1852. Says John Baird, senior vice president and general counsel of Ralston Purina...
...real adventures are to be had in center, a remnant of the days when ball parks didn't all come from the Riverfront-Three River cookie cutter. Compared to left field, center in Fenway is the Wild West, a vast (almost 430 ft. to straight away center) and mysterious (a high wall that tapers down to the tiny bullpen barrier) piece of real estate. But Lynn studied it and had become its master. (If you're unimpressed, think about how many great centerfielders the Sox have had over the years. Not many.) After completing his fifth year in centerfield...
...riverfront development, slated for the area surrounding Lechmere Sales, will eventually feature high technology firms, condominium developments, at least one hotel, several parking garages, and improved roads and sidewalks...
Despite good intentions and hard work by white and black leaders, frustration, fear and anger are growing among blacks. Crenshaw has little faith in future progress: "In the year 2000, we'll have a mall with two big stores and a glamorous riverfront. But you will still be able to go up to the top of one of the Renaissance Center towers and look out on one of the worst ghettos you'll ever...