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Alderman Says Del Taco Flying Saucer Building is Toast
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) — Its not about the food its about the structure. The St. Louis Board of Aldermen took up a measure Friday that would bulldoze the iconic flying saucer shaped food joint to make...
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Rally to “Save Our Saucer” at Old Del Taco Tonight
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Save Our Saucer, the rallying cry tonight at the famous flying saucer-shaped building in Midtown St. Louis. It used to hold a Del Taco and, before that, a Phillips 66 gas station. It...
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Mayor Slay Urges Local Businesses to Consider Flying Saucer Building
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) — Is the old Midtown Del Taco building shaped like a coffee cup saucer or a pizza pie? The landmark’s fate looked dismal, as the developer wanted to tear it down to build a strip...
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Pi Pizzeria Cooking Up Plans for Flying Saucer Building
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The owner of Pi Pizzeria is, indeed, cooking up some special plans for the old Del Taco flying saucer building. “He has a unique idea that is really, really incredible,” St. Louis...
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Vacant Warehouse Burns Near Midtown
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) — Thick black smoke bellowed from a vacant warehouse near midtown St. Louis shortly before noon Thursday. It happened in a one story warehouse building right along I-64 at Grand,...
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Plans Take-Off for Midtown’s Flying Saucer Building
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The man who designed Midtown’s landmark flying saucer building says he approves of plans to save it. Dick Henmi, now 87-years-old, says, at the time, he wanted a “strong shape” for...
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Save The Pevely Building Rally
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Several dozen people gathered on the sidewalk outside the front of old Pevely Dairy plant in midtown St. Louis on Saturday, hoping to rally the public against St. Louis University...
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SLU Falls Short in Effort to Demolish Pevely Dairy
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Saint Louis University failed to convince the city’s Preservation Board to let it tear down the historic Pevely Dairy complex, in favor of a proposed $80 million hospital building....
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UPDATE: Developer Denies Tenants Secured for Former Del Taco
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Rick Yackey denies that tenants have been found for the well-known flying saucer building. He told KMOX on Thursday that the only construction happening on the site is the removal of...
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Grand Boulevard Bridge Opening Delayed
A mid-town traffic headache in St. Louis will last until July 14th.
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UPDATE: Fire Survivors Asking “What Do I Do Now?”
Updated 11:30 a.m. ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) — Residents of the 3949 Apartments on Lindell learned today that they will not be returning home. The four-story “L” shaped building that caught fire Tuesday...
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Memorial Service Held For Pets at 3949 Lindell Apartments
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Nearly 48 hours since a five-alarm fire destroyed the 3949 Lindell Apartment complex, a memorial service for the pets that died. Reverend Ann Wilson officiated the ceremony…..but the...
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‘Smash-and-Grab’ Burglars Hit Midtown Store
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The tires of a stolen Dodge Dakota were still spinning Monday morning as police investigated a “smash-and-grab” burglary in Midtown. It happened at Sam Light Loans on the corner of...
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Months Ahead of Rehab, @4240 Building Adds More Tenants
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – There’s more evidence that St. Louis is a hotbed for start-ups companies. The @4240 building in Midtown’s CORTEX research district has a nearly full list of tenants, even though its...
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Cofactor Genomics Opens New Lab In St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon grabbed a confetti cannon and set it off on the count of three Thursday morning, helping to welcome a new bioscience lab to midtown St. Louis....
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Pedestrian Killed in Midtown
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – St. Louis police are asking for help in locating the driver of an older-model dark-colored Jeep Cherokee that ran over a man and left him to die in the roadway. It happened around...
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It’s Real: IKEA Groundbreaking Today
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Just in case you thought it was a mirage — a ceremonial groundbreaking for St. Louis’ long-awaited IKEA store is at-hand. Construction, though, has technically been well underway for...
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IKEA Letters Slated to Go Up Today
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Weather-permitting, IKEA will try again today to hang its 15-foot yellow letters on its big blue building under construction in Midtown. “We’re just hoping it’s not too wet and not...
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Young Woman Stabbed in Midtown St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A man is in custody after a young woman was stabbed in midtown St. Louis. The crime happened Sunday night outside a Starbucks on Grand Boulevard, near the Saint Louis University...
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WATCH: Solar Panels Up, Construction Continuing at IKEA St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — The entire rooftop of the new IKEA St. Louis location is now dotted with solar panels – the largest such array in the state of Missouri. Nearly 90 percent of IKEA stores in the U.S....
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