Vertical Life
Vertical Life is your source for all that downtown living has to offer. From daily necessities to special services, convenience shopping to fine dining and block parties to major festivals – it has all the information you need to make downtown a great place to call home.
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Current residents can add comments to the page by clicking here connect to social media and other downtown related links. Here's our first resident testimonial from Susan:
"I left Brooklyn in mid July to go to a bunch of concerts and see some friends. St Louis was never really on the itinerary... however the first show was in Moore, Ok and I was going site-seeing in Pittsburgh a few days before it. So I had to stop somewhere between. I was on the phone with a friend cursing the fact that I was even going to Moore, Ok... and trying to figure out what was between Pitt. and Ok. to stop in when I pulled out a map. Well, what's the only major city between Pitt and Ok? St. Louis. I had no desire-- I mean really? What the hell is here? But my friend was like-- oh you love sports and the all-star game was just there and the Blues are there and you love hockey-- so go buy some souvenirs, go to a Cards game and go see that Arch thing (yeah. that Arch thing). And so there I went... well I will say that as fate would have it I was driving in to my hotel which was between St Louis and Earth City when some horrendous thunderstorms hit (thursday night before Sonic Youth played at like 2 AM-- I remember because that's how I found out about the Live at the Levee series- and that was how I got fireworks during the Cards game I went to)... when one of the songs by the band who was playing the show hit my satellite radio and BOOM the clouds part and to my left but what should appear but my muse.. I mean the Arch... and I was dumb-struck (I'm now obsessed). Thank God it was 2AM... I had NO IDEA. I spent the next two days running around like a kid on a sugar high walking the entire city, going to the game, walking 5 steps and then looking back at the arch.. getting lost... finding my way back... and just falling in love. By the time I turned around in California to go back to NYC... well I didn't want to go back.
So sight unseen I picked an apartment across the street from the rams, walking distance from the arch, Cards and Blues. I have a private pool and parking. I have 700 sq feet, rugs, huge walls, big windows and I can't leave my apartment without meeting new people. I've been ziplining and floating. St Louis is the nicest city on earth. When I first moved here I didn't have a job. I was living on a donut every 36 hours... I was walking from Soulard and back just to find bartubbing shifts... when the manager of the Dubliner couldn't give me one, he'd feed me lunch. The manager of Paddyos gave me a $40 GC to Culinaria .. in NYC they'd let me starve to death... no questions asked. One of the bartenders two blocks from my apt taught me how to go into Busch in the 6th inning for free- I was 10ish rows from the field at 1/2 dozen games for nothing. In NYC? I'd been out $2000 or arrested! Blues games? I'm a Kings fan. Yeah. Seriously. We have a BLAST. ScottTrade is like a second home to me. I've been to more games then I can count. I think security knows me as that Kings fan who is always rooting for the Blues... except last night but let's not go there! And even when I'm rooting for the Kings.. I mean the natives are just too damn nice to know any better... but to be nice unless you are rude to them. Going out is easy- leave your front door (and me? I avoid Washington Avenue except the Dubliner and past 11th st- too pretentious) and go to anything like the Old Rockhouse, Broadway Oyster Bar or Delmar... oh and concerts? Really? Everyone and their mother is coming through town this spring! Or so it seems.. Frightened Rabbit, Mumford and Sons... anyone else is driving distance... something is happening every weekend from Mardi Gras to NCAA to the Cardinals in the Summer-- Live on the Levee will be a blast, I'm sure... people just don't know about it.
I just recently went away for a few days and I actually missed home. My Mom asked me if I meant I missed Brooklyn? I said huh? What? No... I miss St Louis. I miss the Arch I want to go home. I haven't felt at home anywhere in a long time.
It is like I tell everyone I meet .. Disney has it all wrong. St Louis is the happiest place on earth! <Specifically the Arch and City Gardens>"