Memorial_Drive_(St._Louis)
Memorial Drive (St. Louis)
Street in St. Louis
Memorial Drive runs north–south in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It is between the city's central business district and the grounds of the Gateway Arch and Gateway Arch National Park. It has an intimate relationship with Interstate 44 (formerly Interstate 70); for most of its length, it runs above the sunken highway, but north of Washington Avenue it goes under it as the highway ramps up above the city.
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For years, Memorial Drive was a source of connection problems between the Gateway Mall and the Arch Grounds. Imagined by the winners of the 2009 international design competition, Framing a Modern Masterpiece, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates corrected this issue by designing a "lid" to be placed over the depressed highway with a landscaped plaza acting as a median. The park over the highway was completed in November 2015 as the first component of the CityArchRiver project.