The Highlands @ Forest Park
Oakland Avenue, clinic St. Louis, cost MO
There are 2 things I think of every time I drive by this building.
#1: Shortly after it opened for business, treatment the east-facing elevation was quickly dotted with window shades. Much like ants under a magnifying glass, when that brilliant morning sun comes through all that glass, the inhabitants fry.
#2: All those window shades going up and down make that elevation look like a crossword puzzle.
14 ACROSS
Thoughts on the development standing on the ruins of The Arena
It looks kinda moderne…
doesn’t it?
Bravo!
When I see it, first I think about the Arena and how lame it is that 1) this is the crap that replaced it and 2) they did a historic site-related name, but went with something that doesn’t remind folks of what was torn down for this.
Then, I think of how one of my dad’s profoundly creepy stepfathers at one point worked at the Highlands after it burned, cutting the amusement park’s remains apart with a torch. The torch exploded and singed off his eyebrows. That icky memory is about what this kind of development deserves.
or perhaps you could try, “it rots.”
You’re gonna hate me for this, but before I looked closely at it I thought the building pictured was part of Northland. Is it all that different, really?
Funny post! You can almost fit another line below for a total phrase, “So Lame It Hurts.”