Anybody that has had to pay for a parking spot near their workplace in a major city knows that finding the perfect monthly parking garage certainly can prove challenging. There are a number of things that go into making a decision about a parking facility, but here at The Globe Building, we suggest making your decision by giving serious consideration to the following criteria. The one that fits your needs best according to these suggestions is the one most likely to suit your needs as you commute to and from work each day.
A Part of History
When the Globe Building opened in 1933 in Downtown St. Louis, it served as the Midwest Terminal Building for the Illinois Railroad, designed with spacious underground rail tunnels and beefy hand-poured cement floors and pillars.
What was built as a distribution center for physical commodities such as hay and lumber— staples of a past era’s economy—is now a data hub located in the midst of St. Louis’ emerging innovation technology corridor.
Convenience
Today, vast cooling units occupy the reinforced roof, and enormous fiber optic cables snake through the building. The property now draws tech businesses attracted to open, modern industrial spaces filled with natural light and lightning-fast download speeds for large amounts of data.
Modern-Industrial
Like everything else with city parking garages, security varies greatly from facility to facility. Some places station workers at security screens to keep their eyes on things, and others have no human employees on-site at all. If you find yourself interested in a parking facility but aren’t sure how the security works there, feel free to do some research to discover if you will be safe parking there and leaving items in your vehicle while you’re at work.
Big Space
When passenger rail service officially stopped in 1958, the post-war decrease in rail use finally ended its occupancy of the building, and it became the Globe-Democrat building in 1959. Its easy access to rail, large freight elevators and expanses of open floor space were ideal for bringing in ink, sending out newsprint and accommodating the newspaper’s gigantic printing presses until the late 1980s, when St. Louis could no longer support two daily newspapers.
Data centers emerged as the ideal use for the property in the mid-1990s, and during the dot-com boom and beyond, companies were looking for places like the Globe Building, says property manager Jeremy Salvatori.
Amenities
The building’s large, continuous floors, high floor loads, tall ceilings, passenger and freight elevators and accessibility to redundant power supplies—plus that critical feasibility of running lines through the empty shafts—made it a destination for the growing data-center industry. Datotel and Hostirian are two of the data centers and co-location services currently located at the Globe Building.
Climate Control
Datotel moved all of its employees into the Globe Building in 2010, relocating administrative employees from O’Fallon, Missouri, to the larger, scalable and more convenient downtown location.
