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Cool hotel, maybe makes up for St Louis in general?

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Pretty much. St. Louis hadn't changed a bit from when I went as a kid 15 years ago, and that's not a good thing. It's almost as if they completely missed the hipster movement. There seemed to be no artsy scene, no revitalized downtown, to gentrified old neighborhoods, ect. The city looked like it was frozen in 2002.

Also, the Union Station had a Catfish Town-esque development in the back with a Landry's and a Hard Rock Cafe.

It seemed like the whole city had missed the boat about how to attract and keep people downtown outside of business hours.

It would really benefit from 1000 hipsters and some decent urban planning and vision. The area between Busch Stadium and Union Station could be something really special, but alas...