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WashU is odd in the sense that its main campus is technically straddling Clayton, University City, and St. Louis proper. Still, they sell the university quite literally as "Washington University in St. Louis." It's medical campus is all in St. Louis proper in the Central West End, and they've been investing pretty heavily I believe in the Cortex Innovation District that itself is straddling the CWE and Midtown.
From a geographic standpoint though, SLU is sitting much more prominently in the city with its primary campus in Midwtown, its law school downtown, and its med school nearby in Tiffany just south of Midtown.
That might be changing though. SLU is ready to help pour $1 billion into Midtown and some of the surrounding areas if the city gives it control over 395 acres between its primary campus and medical campus the same way the city had previously given WashU and the Cortex control over their areas.
I'm not sure if anything has been made of this yet though.
That's a really promising development. Good transit access, near downtown, and near parts of the city that can really use some revitalization. What are the odds this turns out well?
That's a really promising development. Good transit access, near downtown, and near parts of the city that can really use some revitalization. What are the odds this turns out well?
Just to keep it real here-- any city that doesn't have a huge influx of transplants is going to get labeled "insular" or "provincial." Whether it's worse in Cincinnati or St. Louis or Pittsburgh, etc is splitting hairs and completely anecdotal and they are all more or less the same in this regard. That said, these cities are all large enough to offer a range of experiences, and it all depends on where you live/hang out. The parochialism is dying out and younger generations are far less concerned about where people went to high school than their parents.
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