Politics & Government
Arch Grounds Renovation: Are You Happy with the Plans?
Check out the project's "virtual fly-through" the redesigned project and tell us what you think.
Last week was a big one for the CityArchRiver 2015 project, a plan to completely rework how the Gateway Arch grounds interact with the rest of the city and the Mississippi River shoreline.
Roadwork began to reconfigure how some of the highway interchanges around the Arch will function. The project ultimately will include a "park over the highway" connecting the Arch grounds with the Old Courthouse.
As KSDK reported it last week, "The work involves access to the Martin Luther King Bridge, Washington Avenue, and Memorial Drive between Pine and the MLK Bridge. There will be daily lane closures from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. underneath Interstate 70 at the MLK Bridge."
The CityArchRiver 2015 organization unveiled a video, available here on YouTube and on this article, that takes viewers on a virtual "fly-through" the grounds as they would look once the project is completed.
It shows views from the Old Courthouse, over the new park that will cover Interstate 70, into a newly created entrance to the Arch museum and down to the riverfront.
By the way, the most interesting part of the video starts at about the 1-minute-43-second mark.
Take a look at the video and tell us what you think. Are you loving what you see, or would you be happy if it were left alone?
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