{"id":3769,"date":"2007-05-18T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:08:46","slug":"giving-downtown-st-louis-its-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/giving-downtown-st-louis-its-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Downtown St. Louis Its Props"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the first to tut-tut the revitalization of downtown St. Louis, but this is a positive step:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/64C45A8B484E4C91862572DE008376D2?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Schnucks planning downtown store<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finishing touches are being put on a plan for a 20,000-square-foot Schnuck\u2019s to go into the first floor of the Desco-DFC Group garage development at 9th between Olive and Locust streets, several sources said Thursday. The Century Building formerly was at the location.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always maintained that an urban core is only as good as its supermarkets.  With the inclusion of a Schnucks (no apostrophe) down there, it will help a lot, since the downtown dwellers won&#8217;t have to drive out to the suburbs to shop or pay boutique prices.<\/p>\n<p>I will note, though, that it&#8217;s a DESCO development, which is the property company owned by the Schnuck family, so it&#8217;s not as though Schnucks has to pay going rates, but on the other hand, the DESCO first floor won&#8217;t sit empty for years awaiting a tenant.  Besides, that&#8217;s how the companies operate in the suburban locations, too.<\/p>\n<p>Good work, downtown.  It&#8217;s a supermarket.  If you can keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the first to tut-tut the revitalization of downtown St. Louis, but this is a positive step: Schnucks planning downtown store: Finishing touches are being put on a plan for a 20,000-square-foot Schnuck\u2019s to go into the first floor of the Desco-DFC Group garage development at 9th between Olive and Locust streets, several sources said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18078,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/18078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}