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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

The Jewel of Midtown gave Saint Louis University basketball a fortress and the city a mid-size concert room it had always lacked. Chaifetz Arena at 1 South Compton Avenue, at the corner of Compton and Market on the SLU campus, opened on 10 April 2008 after a groundbreaking on 28 August 2006, an 80.5-million-dollar, 269,300-square-foot project by arena specialists Sink Combs Dethlefs with St. Louis firm Mackey Mitchell, built by Clayco. The naming gift came from Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz, the 1975 ...