"The downtown Convention Center is officially renamed the St. Louis Gateway Convention and Exhibition Center in a ceremony Tuesday. From left: Mayor John H. Poelker; Richard Mantia, secretary-treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Council; Eugene L. Beckerle, center director; Nick Rallo, president of C. Rallo Contrating Co., and Al Fleischer, chairman of Pride."
"The St. Louis Gateway Convention Center under construction just north of downtown has passed the half-way mark, according to Eugene L. Beckerle, center director. 'We're on schedule, and we are still shooting for the opening in June, 1977' Beckerle said. 'On June 23, we are scheduled to move in the first group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,' he said. And that
"More than a million and one-half persons are expected to visit the St. Louis Gateway Convention and Exhibition Center during its first fiscal year, beginning in June, 1977. The new facility features three exhibition halls of 80,000 square feet each, which can be combined into one hall; a post office; 52 meeting rooms for groups from 15 to 2,500; and facilities to feed more than 5,000 at a
"Convention Center site on North side of downtown. Work progressing rapidly this spring. New Mercantile Center (35 stories) appears almost as high as Gateway Arch (630 feet)"
"The design of St. Louis' downtown Convention Center has been approved by the City Plan Commission, with a recommendation that exterior walls be of Portland cement panels. Metal or cement panels had been proposed for the center's exterior walls by architects for the project, Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum and Jenkins-Fleming. Norman Murdoch, commission director, said he felt that rib-faced cement would be mroe attractive, and he strongly favored it if costs could be held within the construction budget. The center will feature a column-free, 240,000 square feet of convention and exhibition space, the equivalent of five football fields in size. In Monday's Globe-Democrat, an incorrect rendering of the center's design was published. The Globe regrets the error. Sverdup and Parcel & Associates, Inc., is in charge of engineering work on the center."
"How Sheraton St. Louis Hotel will look at Convention Plaza." "A $17.5 million construction and mortgage loan for the Sheraton St. Louis Hotel will provided by six St. Louis Hotel will be provided by six St. Louis banks and 10 St. Louis savings and loan associations, James M. O'Flynn, executive vice president of the Bank of St. Louis, announced Thursday. Construction of the 18-story, 620-room
"From the air…a view of the construction site where foundations are being poured for the $34 million St. Louis Convention Center. The center is expected to be completed in the spring of 1977, and a construction contract for the building itself is expected to be let about Dec. 20. The site is bordered by (A) Cole street, (B) Ninth street, (C) Seventh street and (D) Delmar boulevard. Across from
"Architect's rendering of Convention Center Mall, an enclosed, air-conditioned shopping center scheduled to open in the spring of 1978. It will connect with the convention center, Stix, Baer & Fuller and the Sheraton St. Louis Hotel."
"At the root of the excitement is the St. Louis Gateway Convention Center--on downtown's northern flank--which is scheduled to open next June 25 when it will host the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."
"Convention Center may begin to rise this year. St. Louis' multimillion-dollar downtown Convention Center, now only a vast expanse of mud and puddles on the near North Side, should begin to rise from its soggy site by late this year, according to a spokesman for the city's Board of Public Service."