Mackey Mitchell Architects to relocate to Cupples Station

Mackey Mitchell Architects said today it will leave its long-time home near Union Station and move late this year to a renovated Cupples Station building a block west of Busch Stadium.

The firm, founded in 1968 by Gene Mackey, plans to lease 11,000 square feet of fifth-floor space at Cupples 9, which is under renovation by an affiliate of the Koman Group. For 24 years, Mackey Mitchell has been at the Power House, a building it designed. The company said it hopes to relocate by Dec. 1.

TKG Acquisitions LLC, a Koman affiliate, bought the vacant Cupples 9 building out of foreclosure on May 26. Koman says its$30 million rehab of the 117-year-old building should be completed in early 2013. The building is next to the Westin Hotel at Cupples Station, made up of old warehouses in six blocks west of Busch Stadium. Other buildings in the century-old complex have been redone as offices, restaurants, condos and apartments.

In addition to Mackey Mitchell, a tenant of Cupples 9 is to be Osborn & Barr, a communications company thatwill occupy 45 percent of building. Osborn & Barr plans to move from another Cupples Station building on Spruce Street.

The two relocations will fill most of what is now an empty downtown building. But the moves do little to boost overall occupancy downtown.

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