Stastny to Lead Grand Center Planning, Missouri, Sun and Metropolitan Buildings to See New Life

Grand Center, St. Louis' arts and culture district will embark on a master planning process led by architect and urban designer Don Stastny. Stastny is well known in St. Louis as the competition manager of Framing a Modern Masterpiece, an effort to reenvision the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (St. Louis Arch) and surroundings. It's likely that his management of that incredibly complicated process led to the Grand Center contract.

Grand Center, Inc. recently communicated to neighborhood constituents that it believes "the final three historic buildings in the district (the Metropolitan Building, the Missouri Theater Building and the Sun Theater) are all planned to be under construction and should be completed by the end of 2012." The hope is that with those three significant buildings back in use, the district can begin to think about infill and other amenity additions.