Readers: Issue RFP on Cupples 7 Site
The top answer in the poll last week indicates readers would like Treasurer Tishaura Jones issue a RFP (Request For Proposals) regarding the soon to be vacant site occupied for decades by the Cupples 7 warehouse.
![Looking east on Spruce from 11th. Cupples 7 on the right is currently being razed. Photo date: Aug 27, 2013](http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cupples7-7.jpg)
Here are the poll results:
Q: What should St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones do with the site of the former Cupples 7 warehouse? (pick up to 3)
- Issue a RFP (request for proposals) from developers 73 [32.74%]
- Don’t raze the western half! 48 [21.52%]
- Solicit public to get ideas 34 [15.25%]
- Set up a design charrette 32 [14.35%]
- Plant it for a public park 18 [8.07%]
- Pave it for surface parking 8 [3.59%]
- Unsure/no opinion 5 [2.25%]
- Construct a parking garage 3 [1.35%]
- Other: 2 [0.9%]
Here are the two “other” answers submitted by readers.
- Sell the site for a $1 to the first worthy development w/ funding.
- set up a public speaking dais for a press conference on it and resign.
Ouch! I agree a RFP should be issued, but only after getting ideas from the public. The RFP shouldn’t be open-ended, it should have parameters based on public input.
![Jones' 2012 campaign website talked about transparency & change, retrieved on 8/8/12, click image to view 3-page PDF](http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tishaura.png)
In the interest of transparency & change, Jones will [hopefully] seek input and put together an open process to address the disposition the site.
The south wall of the west section was nearly gone when I visited yesterday. I think the north & west walls are the most critical, even saving just the first 3 floors of these walls makes sense until we have a handle on the next steps.
— Steve Patterson