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| Downtown Buzz is a monthly
newsletter published by the Downtown St. Louis Community
Improvement District for its members, downtown property and
business owners, the downtown business and residential community
and all others interested in downtown revitalization. Send all
responses and inquiries to Shuntae' Shields Ryan, Marketing
& Communications Director, via e-mail or mail to: 906 Olive
Street Suite 200 St. Louis, MO 63101 |
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The City of St.
Louis and Gateway Foundation have partnered to develop the City
Garden - a unique 2.9 acre sculpture and landscape public garden
on the Gateway Mall. The City Garden will be built on the two
blocks between Eighth and Tenth and Chestnut and Market Streets.
Gateway Foundation will pay more than $20 million for the design
and construction of the garden, including state-of-the art
lighting, ongoing maintenance, security, and insurance expenses.
The City will own the garden improvements, providing water and
electricity, and will continue to own the land. Features of the
garden will include three impressive water features, a café
overlooking the garden, an eight-foot limestone wall, a
state-of-the-art LED video wall and much more. 
The project is scheduled to be completed by July
2009. Other downtown projects the Gateway Foundation played a
significant role in include the Gateway Mall Master Plan, Old
Post Office Plaza, lighting of the Gateway Arch, Old Courthouse,
Civil Courts Building and the development of Triangle Park at
Clark and 14th Streets.
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Art
Saint Louis, a nonprofit gallery and organization with a
continual presence in the downtown community for over 20 years,
is relocating to the 555 Washington Avenue building.
The new
7,000 square foot space will feature 17' high ceilings, a
combination of wood floors and epoxy floors and a drop-down open
ceiling grid that incorporates both tracks with track lighting
and ambient lighting fixtures. The increase in square footage
from their previous location will allow for larger single
exhibitions or a presentation of both a small and a large
exhibition at the same time.
Art Saint Louis' new space has been
vacant for over 10 years. The space previously housed another
gallery in the early 1990s, the Forum for Contemporary Art now
known as the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in Grand Center.
The entire 555 Building has gone through several incarnations
from department stores, to the Post Office, and now boasts
numerous creative enterprises such as Rivet (previously
Zippatoni) and In Fuz. 
The public is invited to attend the Art Saint
Louis Preview Party on Thursday, June 5, 2008 from 5:30 - 8:00
pm and the Grand Opening Reception Saturday evening June 7th
from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. The opening of the new space will feature
the new exhibit "Patterns and Pixels" juried by Mark Douglas and
Ken Anderson, music by Little Anodyne and the Red Wallpaper and
wine by Michelle Winery. To RSVP, click here.
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St.
Louis will host the premier greening and sustainability
conference "Greening the Heartland" at America's Center June
22-24, 2008. The conference will feature internationally
renowned sustainability leaders Ray Anderson, the founder of
Interface, who revolutionized the commercial floor covering
industry by producing America's first free-lay carpet tiles;
Jaime Lerner, an architect and urban planner responsible for
creating and structuring the Institute of Urban Planning and
Research of Curitiba in Brazil; Leith Sharp, who established the
Harvard Green Campus Initiative; and Grand Rapids, Michigan
Mayor George Heartwell, whose city has "gone green" by
implementing a variety of environmental measures. The sessions
will focus on such topics as how to transform communities
through green development, staying green and staying
competitive, state-of-the-art energy technologies and new
construction innovations. To register, click
here.
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| The Downtown Clean Team and Downtown
CID Guides help contribute to the cleanliness and friendliness
of the downtown community. To make it easier for you to identify
them by name when you pass them on the street or when they visit
your establishment, the Downtown St. Louis Partnership has
created a brochure with the names, backgrounds and hobbies of
all team members. To preview the guide, click
here or contact Ken Gabel (kgabel@downtownstl.org) for hard
copies. |
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Art Dimensions along with the St.
Louis Artist's Guild are partnering to present the Lumiére
Casino City Wide Art D Tour, three nights of uniting the St.
Louis artistic community through tours.
The Art D Tour is free to
the public and will be held June 6th, August 1st and October 3rd
from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Beginning at 6:00 pm, shuttle buses will
take attendees to experience galleries and museums within
multiple art districts -Downtown, Forest Park, The Loop, Grand
Center and Maplewood/Clayton. Participants can catch one of four
shuttles from any of the participating galleries or park free at
Lumiére Casino where a shuttle will be waiting as well. The
shuttles will feature live music, entertainment and seat prizes.
Food and drink will be provided at participating galleries by
local restaurants.
The City Wide Art D Tour is sponsored by
Lumiere Place Casino, Downtown St. Louis Partnership, Dick
Blick, Godiva Chocolates, Rivercity Professionals, Arch Framing,
Connect With, L'ecole Culinaire, T media, Taste Magazine and
KDHX. For more information, click here.
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The Annie Malone Children and Family
Service Center will hold its annual May Day Parade in downtown
St. Louis on May 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm. The May Day
Parade  has been a popular event for St. Louisans for
over a century. The Parade will feature marching bands, dance
teams, floats and motorcades and will begin at Market and 20th
Streets and proceed east toward Broadway.
Immediately following
the parade at Kiener Plaza will be the McDonald's May Day
Bluesfest featuring live concerts with some of the area's top
neo soul and blues performers. May Day activities are the
largest and only fund-raiser Annie Malone hosts each year. Funds
raised during the activities go to support the programs and
services that help to improve the quality of life for children
and families in the St. Louis community. The May Day Parade is
the second largest and oldest African-American parade in the
nation. This year's activities will commemorate Annie Malone's
120th anniversary of service to the community. For more
information on May Day activities and for volunteering
opportunities, contact Annie Malone at (314) 531-0120 or click
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| The Downtown St. Louis Partnership
has completed another taping of our downtown show --"Downtown is
Alive" that airs on STL TV Channel 10. The May show features
Espresso Mod, English Living and The London Tea Room, Al Kent of
PricewaterhouseCoopers and Tim Fogerty of Gateway EDI. The show
is now airing. For the show schedule, click
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The 2008 annual Komen St. Louis Race
for the Cure will be held on Saturday, June 21st in downtown St.
Louis. The 5K run, the largest in the world, will begin at 8:45
 a.m. and the Fun Walk starts at 9:15 a.m. Nearly
67,000 people participated in the 2007 Race, raising $2.6
million in net proceeds. This year, organizers expect more than
70,000 participants and have a goal to raise $3 million in net
proceeds to benefit breast cancer research, education, screening
and treatment. To register online, click
here or call the Race Line at 314-725-2592. Entry forms are
available at the New Balance stores (2 locations), KSDK
NewsChannel 5, Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis Metro Ford
Dealers, Saint Louis Bread Co. stores, Schnucks Supermarkets and
Wehrenberg Theatres. |
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Ebersoldt + Underwood
3Degrees
Sonny
Sagar, MD |
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May
16 Art In Motion 2008, 6 - 10
pm, www.dccstl.org
17 The Time Boutique St.
Louis Designer Trunk Show, 12 - 4 pm
18 Annie Malone Parade -
Downtown - www.anniemalone.com
18 Annie Malone Blues
Concert - Kiener Plaza
20 5th Annual Clean Air
Festival in Kiener Plaza, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
21
Voter Registration Drive - Kiener Plaza
23-26 Ribfest - Soldiers' Memorial - www.ribamerica.com
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Wind-a-Palooza: Family Festival at the City Museum, 11 am - 4
pm
28
Downtown Movie Night - Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy
Show,
9
pm, 10th & Olive Streets
June
2 Young
Literati, Central Library, 6 - 8 pm
2 Central
Library: Not So Quiet! Concert Series, 7 - 8 pm
4 Movie
in the Park-Dreamgirls, Filipiak Park - 10th &
O'Fallon
start
time DUSK, 8 - 11 pm
11 Downtown Movie Night -
Fool's Gold, 9 pm, 10th & Olive Streets
14 Flag Retirement -
Soldiers' Memorial
14 Roll on the River
Run
For more event
information, visit www.downtownstl.org.
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Meridian at 1136 Washington Avenue. The new
store, the first in the city of St. Louis, occupies 1,600 square
feet and will service the extensive needs of the cellular phone
customer, establishing new service, providing cellular phone
products and accessories as well as being home to the largest
repair center they've ever opened. 
downtown location with an Open House on
Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Located on the 9th floor of the
Metropolitan Square building, the downtown learning center
occupies half of the 9th floor and includes four classrooms as
well as a student resource center. The ribbon cutting for the
center will be held at noon in the lobby of the building with
the open house continuing until 6 pm. The University of Phoenix
- St. Louis has three additional campus learning centers (Des
Peres, Earth City, and O'Fallon), 3,100 students and employs
approximately 60 staff members. 
Mexican food. Menu specialty items include Queso
dip, stuffed nachos and chimi changa's. Outdoor dining seats 40,
interior 115 and a private party room that seats up to 85. Beso
is open seven days a week, lunch begins at 11 am, other hours
vary.
their free concert series on the St. Louis
Riverfront. The festivities will begin with Fair Saint Louis
July 4 and 5, 2008 where acts Joss Stone, Drake Bell and Anthony
Hamilton will perform. The fun continues with Live on the Levee
Concerts July 11-12, July 18-19, July 25-26 and August 1-2. Each
of the Live on the Levee outdoor festival weekends will be
highlighted by nationally recognized entertainment, firework
finales, as well as food and beverages. 