Midtown, St. Louis, MOThe university corridor between downtown and Forest Park, useful for arena overflow and campus-adjacent meeting space.

Midtown sits along Grand Boulevard between downtown and Forest Park, centered on Saint Louis University's campus and its Chaifetz Arena on one side and the Fox Theatre a few blocks north.

Harris-Stowe State University's campus sits nearby as well, and the corridor has picked up biotech and startup activity spilling west from the CORTEX district.

For a show, Midtown is less a venue than a corridor: a place with its own arena capacity, its own hotel pockets, and its own transit stop, all a short trip from the convention core rather than inside it.

Grand Boulevard itself has carried the corridor's civic and institutional buildings for well over a century, and the mix of university, arts, and biotech tenants along it today reflects a long pattern of the street absorbing whatever St. Louis institution needed room to grow next.