The Grove, St. Louis, MOA Manchester Avenue nightlife corridor built from adaptive-reuse warehouses, a good fit for a late-night program off the main show schedule.

The Grove runs along Manchester Avenue between the Central West End and the CORTEX innovation district, its former industrial buildings converted over the past two decades into bars, restaurants, and small event spaces.

It has grown into one of the metro's recognized LGBTQ+ entertainment districts, with a nightlife calendar and a walkable commercial strip that reads very differently from a downtown hotel bar.

For a convention crowd, it works best as an optional evening destination rather than a scheduled program element, given its distance from the exhibit halls.

The strip has kept a genuinely local feel even as it's grown, with new restaurant openings sitting next to bars that have anchored the corridor for a decade or more, which gives repeat convention attendees a reason to come back rather than treating it as a one-time novelty stop.