N 7th St
St. Louis, MO 63101
N 7th St
St. Louis, MO 63101
The Orpheum Theater in St. Louis, Missouri is a Beaux-Arts style theater, built in 1917. It was constructed by local self-made millionaire Louis A. Cella and designed by architect Albert Lansburgh. The $500,000 theater opened on Labor Day, 1917, as a vaudeville house. As vaudeville declined, it was sold to Warner Brothers in 1930, and served as a movie theater until it closed in the 1960s.It was restored as the American Theater in the 1980s and was listed under that name on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was later sold to local businessmen Michael and Steve Roberts, who renamed it the Roberts Orpheum Theater. The Roberts brothers sold the theater in 2012, and it closed. The Chicago developer, UrbanStreet Group, plans to restore the theater.
One US Bank Plaza is a 36-story building in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The 147.5m building is topped by an antenna that raises the total building to 589ft. In the 1990s the Ambassador Building next to it was razed and became part of the building's plaza.The building has a Structural Expressionism style. It was originally built for Mercantile Bancorporation which was bought out by Firstar in 1999 and then became U.S. Bancorp in 2001.Major occupantsThompson Coburn, LLPUS Bank
Korein Tillery is an AV-rated, award-winning, class action law firm that has won billions of dollars for its clients prosecuting a variety of class actions throughout the country. Perhaps best known for its $10 billion trial verdict against Philip Morris, the firm has gained a national reputation for aggressively and successfully pursuing a wide variety of complex cases on behalf of its clients. The law firm has received professional recognition for excellence among judges, lawyers and the community. The results obtained by Korein Tillery in Prather v. Pfizer Inc., 02-L-480 (Ill.Cir.Ct. 2004), were used during the Congressional hearings on the Class Action Fairness Act as an example of how class actions continue to serve the public good. See 150 Cong. Rec. 92, S7714-17 (July 7, 2004 statement of Sen. Durbin); 151 Cong. Rec. 12, S1082-85 (February 8, 2005 statement of Sen. Durbin). Likewise, Korein Tillery’s settlement in Parker v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 04-L-716 (Ill.Cir.Ct. Sept. 18, 2007), was touted by the public interest organization Public Citizen as an example how consumer class actions benefit society. Korein Tillery has been appointed as class counsel in more than fifty class actions and has successfully negotiated some of the country’s largest settlements. See, e.g., Parker v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. 04-L-716 (Ill. Cir. Ct. Jan. 16, 2008) (settlement valued at $544.5 million); Cooper v. The IBM Pers. Pension Plan, 2005 WL 1981501 (S.D. Ill. Aug. 8, 2005) ($325 million settlement); Sparks v. AT&T Corp., No. 96-LM-983 (Ill. Cir. Ct. Nov. 4, 2002) ($350 million settlement); Folkerts v. Ill. Bell Tel. Co., No. 95-L-912 (Ill. Cir. Ct. July 7, 1998) ($252 million settlement); Berger v. Xerox Corp. Ret. Income Guar. Plan, 2004 WL 287902 (S.D. Ill. Jan. 22, 2004) ($240 million settlement); Williams v. Rohm & Hass Pension Plan, 2010 WL 1490350 (S.D. Ind. Apr. 12, 2010) ($180 million settlement); Malloy v. Ameritech, No. 98-488-GPM (S.D. Ill. July 21, 2000) ($180 million settlement); In Re: MCI Non-Subscriber Tel. Rates Litig., MDL 1275 (S.D. Ill. Apr. 19 2001) ($99 million settlement); and Dunn v. BOC Group Pension Plan, No. 01-CV-382-DRH (S.D. Ill. Mar. 12, 2004) ($70 million settlement).
One City Center is an office tower complex and former shopping mall in St. Louis, Missouri.The 25-story office tower is the ninth-tallest habitable building in St. Louis at a height of 375ft. The mall was four stories with a green, white, and glass façade. When the mall opened in 1985, St. Louis Centre was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States, with over 150 stores with 20 restaurants in 1500000ft2. The $95 million complex was originally to be developed by the May Company and called May Mall, but development for the mall was given to the Simon Property Group.St. Louis Centre opened in 1985, with anchor stores Famous-Barr at one end and Dillard's at the other. The anchor location of Famous-Barr was the company's flagship outlet and also contained that company's corporate offices, and the corporate headquarters of the May Company. The Dillard's location was once the flagship, and headquarters of Stix, Baer and Fuller, with that chain being sold to Dillard's just as mall construction commenced. The mall was initially popular and featured national chain stores. As the 1990s progressed, the mall faced challenges with the redevelopment of the former Westroads Shopping Center into the St. Louis Galleria. By the mid-1990s, Dillard's converted its location into one of its clearance stores, and no longer carried regular day-to-day merchandise, this location closed for good in 2001. In 2006, the almost-vacant "dead mall" closed, and was bought by The Pyramid Companies and was planned to be turned into condominiums and retail space, though the plan was never realized, as Pyramid closed in 2008 due to financial troubles. The mall was foreclosed in 2009 by lender Bank of America and later bought for $12.7 million by Environmental Operations. In 2009, the building was about 85% vacant, and other developers were trying to raise funding for a renovation of the mall. Plans included a $35 million renovation, turning much of the complex into parking space, as well as a $29 million project to attract tenants to the center's office tower. The project, led by investor Stacy Hastie, includes plans for local law firm Lewis, Rice & Fingersh and accounting firm LarsonAllen LLP to move into the building. Earlier, the Missouri Development Finance Board had approved a $5 million loan for the project. In May 2010, work began to convert part of the building into a 750-car parking garage and retail/entertainment complex called Mercantile Exchange. The skybridges to the Famous-Barr Railway Exchange Building and the former Stix, Baer and Fuller / Dillard's store have now been demolished to open up Washington and Locust streets.