Richmond Heights, MOA retail and hotel suburb at the I-64/I-170 interchange, useful for overflow lodging near The Galleria.

Richmond Heights sits at the interchange of Interstate 64 and Interstate 170, a location that has made it a retail and hotel hub for the western side of the St. Louis metro, with The Galleria, one of the region's major shopping centers, sitting directly off the interchange.

St. Mary's Hospital contributes another part of the suburb's daytime activity, adding a steady base of visitors and staff that has nothing to do with any convention business happening downtown on a given week.

For a show, Richmond Heights functions as overflow lodging: hotel inventory a highway trip from downtown rather than a walk, useful when headquarters-hotel rooms run out and a planner needs a second block that still reads as close by on paper.

The suburb also borders Clayton, St. Louis County's own business district, and sits only a few miles from Forest Park, so a guest staying here for overflow purposes still has real options for an evening out beyond the hotel bar.