Friday, April 1, 2011

City to Replace Municipal Courts with New 14th Street Garage

New St. Louis Municipal Gagage
The City of St. Louis today is poised to announce the newest enhancement to the ongoing redevelopment of Downtown St. Louis. The new 14th street garage will replace the former Municipal Courts building on Market Street west of City Hall. The Municipal Courts building, which will be demolished, has been vacant since the courts moved to the Mel Carnahan building (the former federal courthouse) at the southeast corner of Tucker & Market.

The new garage will be a good complement to the recently completed municipal garage at the northwest corner of Tucker and Clark. The new 14th Street garage however will have the added benefit of being attached directly to City Hall via a sky bridge.

Municipal Courts Building St. Louis
The former Municipal Courts building on Market Street

By now you may have figured out that this is a joke, but in all seriousness, crimes against our City's built environment of this nature have happened several times before. Only continued vigilance and taking real action agains threats to historic building when they occur will prevent these scenes from continually repeating.

3 comments:

Jeannette E. Spaghetti said...

Great April Fool's joke!!

thoughts from south grand said...

well played, old bean

mattH said...

wouldn't have been surprised at all............