The Grove's block party got a permanent address. Atomic Pavilion at 4140 Manchester Avenue is the open-air stage of Atomic by Jamo, the multi-room entertainment complex that St. Louis promoter Jamo Presents has built in the middle of the Grove nightlife district - an operation whose lineage runs through the city's beloved independent rooms, from the original Ready Room to the Old Rock House. After a six-week trial season in 2024, the pavilion relaunched with its defining feature: a block-party .....

St. Louis built a second stadium of bars where the old stadium stood. Ballpark Village, across Clark Street from Busch Stadium, is the Cardinals' and Cordish Companies' 400-million-dollar entertainment district - the first master-planned development in the country built around a Major League ballpark, opened in March 2014 with a free Third Eye Blind concert and expanded ever since across seven downtown blocks. The heart of the operation is the year-round indoor plaza now branded FanDuel Sports N.....

Home of the St. Louis Cardinals, the current Busch Stadium opened in 2006 as the third major-league ballpark in the city to carry the Busch name, replacing a multi-purpose stadium that had stood next door. Designed by the firm Populous in the retro-classic style that swept through baseball after Camden Yards, it seats around 44,000 and frames a celebrated view of the downtown skyline and the Gateway Arch beyond the outfield. The ballpark opened in stages: a minor-league exhibition christened th.....

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 .....

Less a museum in the usual sense than a giant playground built from salvage, City Museum occupies a former shoe factory and warehouse in downtown St. Louis and invites visitors to climb, crawl and slide through its interior and grounds. It was created by the sculptor Bob Cassilly, who bought the largely vacant ten-storey building in 1993 and, with a crew of artisans, opened the museum in October 1997. The exhibits are assembled almost entirely from reclaimed material: old bridges, aircraft, ind.....

A century-old electric foundry now ferments wine and hosts songwriters in Midtown St. Louis. City Winery St. Louis opened on 18 March 2023 at 3730 Foundry Way, Suite 158, inside City Foundry STL - the sprawling former Century Electric foundry complex between Grand Center and the Cortex district that reopened in 2021 as a food hall, office and entertainment campus. The venue brought Michael Dorf's urban-winery formula to Missouri: a working winery with tanks and barrels on site, a full restaurant.....

St. Louis buried its soccer stadium forty feet below street level and built a neighbourhood on top. Energizer Park at 2100 Market Street in Downtown West, across from Union Station, opened on 16 November 2022 with a friendly against Bayer Leverkusen ahead of St. Louis City SC's 2023 MLS expansion debut. The 457.8-million-dollar, privately financed project by HOK and Snow Kreilich anchors a 32-acre campus - the largest urban professional sports district in the country - uniting stadium, team head.....

Set within the City Foundry development in the Midtown area of St. Louis, the Museum of Illusions is a hands-on attraction built around optical illusions and the science of how we perceive the world. Opened in 2024, it is one of the newer United States locations of a global chain that has turned the study of visual trickery into a playful, interactive outing. The chain was founded in Zagreb, Croatia, in 2015 by two friends and has expanded rapidly to dozens of sites across many countries. The S.....

The name honours a building that no longer exists: an 1818 limestone riverfront warehouse where steamboat pilots drank and Mark Twain's cousin held the deed, dismantled in 1959 to clear ground for the Gateway Arch. Old Rock House, at 1200 South 7th Street in St. Louis, carries the ghost's name into the live-music present. The original's legend earned the tribute: known from Minneapolis to New Orleans as one of the liveliest spots on the river, it hosted a Depression-era nightclub whose resident.....

The last film shown before the orchestra moved in was The Sound of Music. Powell Hall at 718 North Grand Boulevard in St. Louis's Grand Center arts district began life in November 1925 as the St. Louis Theatre, a 4,100-seat Rapp and Rapp vaudeville and movie palace, and has been home to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra since 1968. The Symphony Society bought the building in 1966 for 500,000 dollars - a gift from benefactor Oscar Johnson Jr. - and spent 2 million dollars converting the ornate ho.....