SLU law moving downtown.... (St. Louis, Memphis: 2013, apartment, leases)

[MUTGR]

[CENTER]Dear [MUTGR],
Today, I am extremely excited to tell you that our dream of creating a state-of-the-art Law School building is coming true.
Thanks to a very generous gift from St. Louisans Joe and Loretta Scott, we will move into an 11-story, 260,000-square-foot building located at 100 N. Tucker Blvd. in downtown St. Louis.
This historic move puts us in the very heart of where law is practiced in our great city. We will be located right next door to the Civil Courts Building and within walking distance of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse and many of the region’s most prestigious law firms. I know that our new home will provide our students with countless new educational and professional opportunities.
The model of off-campus law schools is found at many of the nation’s finest universities, including Boston College, Fordham University, Georgetown University, Loyola Marymount, Loyola University Chicago and the University of Detroit-Mercy.
For some time, we have been talking about and planning for how we can modernize our current space so that it matches the superior quality of our teaching and scholarship.
What is so exciting about our new building is that the interior is essentially a blank canvas. This will allow us to develop the flexible, multipurpose, technology-centric spaces we need right now to support how legal education is delivered today.
This move also will allow us to physically unify our Legal Clinics with the Law School, bringing together all of the important aspects that make SLU LAW unique.
In addition to creating modern spaces for teaching and learning, the University will add shuttle service to and from the SLU Midtown campus, as well as a fitness center and dining options, which will optimize the convenience of this new location.
As you know, the needs of our students are always our first priority at SLU LAW, and I firmly believe we will make an immediate impact on their legal education by moving forward with this very important next step in our future.
The target date to complete this project is early August 2012, in time to welcome our students for the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year. For a brief video tour of our new Law School building, click here. (http://vimeo.com/35570584)
Work on our new home will begin very shortly, and I will continue to keep you updated as this project moves forward.

I would like to thank Father Biondi and the University’s leadership for their continued support and to express our gratitude to Joe and Loretta Scott for their generosity.
Best Regards,
Annette E. Clark, M.D., J.D.
Dean and Professor of Law
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[aragx6]

I just saw this. That's pretty big news and it's great to see a DT property rehabbed. What are their facilities like in Midtown? What will become of them?

[billiken]

Woah. This is huge news for downtown.. I thought they were renovating the current law school, but that was still in the planning phases when I graduated from undergrad. Definetely great news for the apartment/condo market downtown too.

[Dawn10am]

I'm currently a 1L at SLU and can tell you we're all very excited. Our current building dates from the 60s-70s and isn't BAD per se, but just sub-par. I admit that as a prospective student I wasn't impressed at all by the facilities. The business school got a fantastic new building a few years ago next door to us and we're slightly resentful...

But yes, they just announced this today in the above email and almost everybody I know is already thinking about moving downtown. They timed it perfectly for August when most of our leases are up. The University of Memphis law school moved to downtown Memphis last year from the main campus and within months there were several new businesses in the area and an influx of students living close by.

This will be great for downtown.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by Dawn10am

I'm currently a 1L at SLU and can tell you we're all very excited. Our current building dates from the 60s-70s and isn't BAD per se, but just sub-par. I admit that as a prospective student I wasn't impressed at all by the facilities. The business school got a fantastic new building a few years ago next door to us and we're slightly resentful...

But yes, they just announced this today in the above email and almost everybody I know is already thinking about moving downtown. They timed it perfectly for August when most of our leases are up. The University of Memphis law school moved to downtown Memphis last year from the main campus and within months there were several new businesses in the area and an influx of students living close by.

This will be great for downtown.

Glad to hear a student's perspective. I graduated from their in '99. The building was ok, but never up to par with Mizzou's law school or the palace at Wash U. This building is not very attractive from the outside, but I assume they can and will do wonderful things inside.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by Dawn10am

I'm currently a 1L at SLU and can tell you we're all very excited. Our current building dates from the 60s-70s and isn't BAD per se, but just sub-par. I admit that as a prospective student I wasn't impressed at all by the facilities. The business school got a fantastic new building a few years ago next door to us and we're slightly resentful...

But yes, they just announced this today in the above email and almost everybody I know is already thinking about moving downtown. They timed it perfectly for August when most of our leases are up. The University of Memphis law school moved to downtown Memphis last year from the main campus and within months there were several new businesses in the area and an influx of students living close by.

This will be great for downtown.

Glad to hear a student's perspective. I graduated from there in '99. The building was ok, but never up to par with Mizzou's law school or the palace at Wash U. This building is not very attractive from the outside, but I assume they can and will do wonderful things inside.

[stlouisan]

Wow is all I have to say.