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Lumiere Place St Louis is just one of the St. Louis casinos that can bring added excitement to a city that is already full of welcome attractions. The Gateway Arch is sure to secure a spot on your St. Louis itinerary, and a St. Louis riverboat trip is a great way to get out on the venerable Mississippi River. Currently, those looking to add gambling to their St. Louis vacation plans will find a number of choice spots where you can throw that hard-earned money down. In the near future, Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. will introduce two state-of-the-art casinos that will put St. Louis at the forefront of Midwest gambling. If you can’t make it to Vegas, or are looking for a change in atmosphere, you’ll find it at Lumiere Place, which is the bigger of Pinnacle’s two projects. In fact, once the plans were set in motion, Lumiere Place became the largest of all downtown St. Louis construction projects, so it’s safe to assume that it’s one heck of a venue. The Lumiere Place St Louis casino hotel had hoped to open in the Fall of 2007, but due to various delays, it will now open in December.
Lumiere Place in St Louis is located just to the north of the entertainment district known as Laclede’s Landing, where a bevy of shopping and dining options can be found, not to mention the popular President riverboat casino. Pinnacle has dedicated almost $500 million to its Lumiere Place St Louis casino hotel, which has given the city quite the economic boost. Lumiere Place, in and of itself, will help to revitalize part of downtown St. Louis, but it won’t be all that Pinnacle brings to the table. The company is also planning to join forces with other development firms to further develop the area, promising shiny new residential and retail establishments. It should be quite the total destination, once all is said and done. Once the Lumiere Place casino opens, Pinnacle hopes to have their additional projects completed within 5 years thereafter. Pinnacle’s other St. Louis casino hotel project, River City, will be a more family-oriented destination, while the sexier Lumiere Place will cater to adults.
The Lumiere Place St Louis casino hotel adds a visual appeal to the downtown and riverfront skylines, its exterior inspired by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Among its most exciting architectural aspects is the facility’s main tower, which features an unmistakable light feature that helps to make it quite the icon. Lumiere Place in St Louis will offer two separate hotels, one of which is a five-star property that is one of the finer luxury St. Louis hotels. This hotel has a total of 200 amenity-filled rooms, a full-service spa, fine-dining restaurants and a stunning pool and garden that affords guests prime views of the Gateway Arch. Its other hotel will offer 297 renovated suites designed for business travelers or those simply looking for added space. In addition to the fine dining establishments, Lumiere Place in St Louis will also offer plenty of casual dining restaurants, including fast food chains and a 24-hour buffet and grill. If you’re traipsing about town on foot, you can access the Lumiere Place casino by way of the pedestrian connection, which leads to and from other significant downtown buildings.
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The Lumiere Place casino hotel covers some 7.3 acres of prime downtown land, the casino itself spread over 75,000 square feet. The state-of-the-art Lumiere Place casino features a couple thousand slot and video poker machines ranging in denominations, meaning you don’t have to bet the farm to have a good time. If you prefer table games, you should find what you’re looking for at one of the over 40 different tables, and poker enthusiasts will appreciate the 12-table Poker Room. Among the bars is a piano bar, where you can relax in sophistication with a cocktail, hopefully enjoying the money you just won. You’ll find more excitement at the casino’s other bars, and nightlife entertainment can be enjoyed as well in the casino lounge. The Lumiere Place casino’s main bar overlooks the main floor and exudes a lively light and crystal feature that mimics a waterfall. Dazzling, is a word that appropriately defines Lumiere Place, and you’ll surely want to check this place out on your next St. Louis vacation.
Lumiere Place Casino
Location:
St. Louis, MO, United States
Four Seasons St Louis Lumiere Casino
Architect/Specifier:
Marnell Architecture
Lumiere Place, St. Louis's newest gaming palace, just dramatically raised the ante on the riverboat casino scene: it's a $507 million, 24-story, Las Vegas-style complex that incorporates a 'boat,' to technically satisfy Missouri's legal standards for casinos. The building rises several blocks away from the Mississippi river, but the casino floor is actually an eight-foot-thick concrete raft afloat in a basin holding more than 1.5 million gallons of water. Secured in place by 100 vertical retaining rods, it's said to be seaworthy, but it's not going on any cruises. Casino guests never even see the water.
Designed by Las Vegas-based Marnell Architecture, the complex delivers Las Vegas-style high-rise bling to the St. Louis scene without apology. It cost $142 million more to build than the Cardinals' new Busch Stadium, opened in 2006. Its most dramatic feature, a sculptural yoke that swoops up and over the building, is dwarfed by Eero Saarinen's iconic Gateway Arch, 630 feet high and only half a mile away. But Lumiere's glowing collar is backlit with 42,550 linear feet of LEDs that can project 16 million colors and any desired array of patterns.
Inside the 75,000 square-foot casino and lobby, the architects selected Hunter Douglas' Torsion-Spring Plank & Tile simulated wood laminate ceiling system. The owner, Pinnacle Entertainment, was looking for a more intimate feeling than in the newest generation of Las Vegas casinos, says Marnell Corrao's president of architecture, Brett Ewing. The design utilized two contrasting wood tones, Hunter Cherry and Russian Maple, to create a 'parquet' effect consisting of 4'x4', 2'x'4 and 2'x'2 panels. In addition, plaque diffusers were provided by Hunter Douglas in matching wood tones to blend. Light openings were factory-cut for precision to optimize clean, finished appearance. The ceiling features the Torsion-Spring panels which swing down for easy point-accessibility. The design also required for the ceiling trims to be approximately 1' off the wall. Hunter Douglas met this requirement with their straight and curved EdgeLine trims.
Outside, the complex comprises the low-rise building that encloses the casino gaming floor (and its unseen moat), a 2,000-space parking garage, and a 200-room hotel in the form of a sapphire glass box. The casino greets Laclede's Landing Historic District - the site of the original village of St. Louis, 224 years old - with a sober facade of brick and stone. Ewing says its materials reflect the historic Laclede's warehouses, while the proportions and visual rhythm recall Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. Less straight-faced is the swoopy porte-cochere, hosed at night with colored light, that revives the 'Googie' California restaurant architecture of the '60s. And then there's the light bar, which wraps itself over the blue box in an embrace that's now the most prominent fixture in St. Louis's night sky.
The light bar might be more intriguing engineering than the casino-floor 'boat,' which has actually been done before. It's a perforated aluminum skin over a milk-white translucent acrylic, so it reads as a bronze-colored solid in the daylight but a glowing bar at night. Ewing admits there was some conscious sense of fabricating a kin to the Saarinen arch. 'But to us, it was a complement,' he says. 'Not a competitor.'
The glowing arch, intriguingly, seems to have aroused little controversy locally. For years, Deputy Mayor for Development Barbara Geisman has been urging more downtown property owners to illuminate their buildings at night, symbolizing a 24/7 environment. Frank Mares, deputy superintendent of the Jefferson National Memorial, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he wasn't concerned that Lumiere's arch might upstage Saarinen's. 'Anything that makes the skyline better is great,' he said.
The newspaper, however, did grope a bit for the city's soul in an editorial published the day of Lumiere's December 2007 opening. Maybe deep down, the Post-Dispatch said, 'we are slightly embarrassed at how fast and how deep we've gotten in hock to the gambling industry. On the hallowed shore where Lewis and Clark pulled their canoes from the water ... we have fostered the construction of temples to the fast buck and glitzy entertainment.' However, it was St. Louis's own mayor, Francis G. Slay, who back in 2001 invited the building of a mega-casino to compete with the suburban operations. It means more tax revenue for the city, as well as new life - and bright lights - for downtown.
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