A contemporary art museum with a knack for exhibiting the next big thing next door to another arts museum housed in a building globally recognized as an architectural marvel.
An astonishingly beautiful symphony hall across the street from another of the nation’s premiere performing arts venues.
An arts hotel where you can select your room by color.
An annual music festival. Music and podcast recording studios.
A literary café. A mural park. A jazz club. A nightclub with open turntable DJ nights.
Art galleries.
Artist studios and rehearsal spaces for theatre and dance.
A fine art printing shop.
Put it all together within a half-mile radius and you have the Grand Center Arts District in St. Louis, the most exciting emerging arts district in America.
Excerpt from Forbes’ “America’s Most Exciting Emerging Arts District Is In… St. Louis?”, Contributor Chadd Scott, June 5, 2023.