4 of 5 Arch Competition Design Teams Recommend Highway Removal

"We predict fanfare should the elevated highway that cuts off Laclede’s Landing be removed." – Behnisch

After you get a full serving of architecture eye-candy and you begin to look at what the five final Arch competition design teams have planned for St. Louis, you'll see something very exciting. Four of the five design teams identify I-70 removal as the best long-term solution to reconnect the city to the Arch and river. While prevented by the October 2015 deadline from including I-70 removal in an initial phase, Behnisch, SOM-Hargreaves-BIG, Weiss-Manfredi and MVVA acknowledged City to River and present support for the boulevard concept.

“City to River articulates an enormous number of benefits arising from such a scheme…” - SOM-Hargreaves-BIG