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Sportsman's Park was the home field of both the St. Louis Browns of the American League, and the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League from 1920 to 1953, when the Browns relocated to Baltimore and were rebranded as the Orioles. The physical street address was 2911 North Grand Boulevard.
The Cardinals corporation asked for and received $49 million in tax breaks from the City of St. Louis to help build the $100 million first phase. [ 11 ] Ground was officially broken on February 8, 2013, for the 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m 2 ) first-phase of the project.
Busch Memorial Stadium (Busch Stadium II) was a multi-purpose sports facility in St. Louis, Missouri, that operated for 40 years, from 1966 through 2005. [4] Built as Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium, its official name was shortened to Busch Stadium in January 1982.
In 1995, St. Louis Cardinals team ownership began to lobby for a new ballpark in downtown St. Louis, but the team was unable to acquire funding for the project for several years. In June 2001, the Missouri state government signed a contract with the team, proposing a ballpark in downtown St. Louis, but a subsequent funding bill was struck down ...
Six Flags St. Louis, originally known as Six Flags Over Mid-America, is an amusement park in Eureka, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.Owned and operated by Six Flags, it has eight themed areas with attractions, dining, and live entertainment, many themed with characters from Looney Tunes and other Warner Bros. films and TV shows, DC Comics, and, formerly, Scooby-Doo.
The Muny in 1923. In 1914, Luther Ely Smith began staging pageant-masques on Art Hill in Forest Park. [3] In 1916, a grassy area between two oak trees on the present site of The Muny was chosen for a production of As You Like It produced by Margaret Anglin and starring Sydney Greenstreet with a local cast of "1,000 St. Louis folk dancers and folk singers" [4] in connection with the ...
The Hi-Pointe area takes its name from being one of the highest points in the City of St. Louis. The Hi-Pointe Theatre, the oldest still operating movie theater in St Louis, is located here. There are between 750 and 800 separate homes, apartment buildings, condominium buildings and businesses in this area.
Originally the site of the Westroads Shopping Center anchored by Stix, Baer & Fuller, the property was sold in 1984 to Hycel Properties, which demolished most of the mall except the Stix north wing, including Walgreens (demolished and now a recently closed Weber Grill restaurant), [4] and built the Saint Louis Galleria.