title: Grand Boulevard (St. Louis)
text: # Grand Boulevard (St. Louis)
  
  Grand Boulevard is a major, seven to five-lane wide, north-south thoroughfare that runs through the center of St. Louis, Missouri. It runs north through Carondelet Park in the south portion of the city to the Mississippi River north of the McKinley Bridge, about midway between Forest Park and the Mississippi River. Neighborhoods that it runs through include Dutchtown, Tower Grove East, Tower Grove South, Compton Heights, Tiffany, Midtown, Jef-Vander-Lou, Fairground, and College Hill.
  
  ## Mass-transit connections
  
  Grand Boulevard connects with the St. Louis Metrolink light rail service at Grand Station. The station was closed in spring 2011 due to demolition and replacement of the viaduct on Grand spanning the Metrolink tracks, industrial train tracks, and an industrial park. The project is expected to take 18-24 months and will include the replacement of the Grand Avenue station. As of August 20, 2012, the new larger metro and bus station and viaduct with wider pedestrian sidewalks is open.
  
  Grand Blvd also has the 70 Grand MetroBus, the busiest bus route in the St. Louis area. The route number comes from a streetcar line that previously operated on track in the center lane of Grand Boulevard with that number.
  
  ## Places on Grand Boulevard
  
  * Sportsman's Park
  * Fairground Park
  * Divoli Branch library
  * St. Alphonse's Liguori Catholic Church
  * Saint Louis University
  * Fox Theatre
  * Grand Center
  * Compton Hill Reservoir Park, site of the landmark Compton Hill Water Tower
  * Carpenter Branch library
  * Tower Grove Park, site of the annual Festival of Nations
  * Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  * Saint Louis University Hospital
  * SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
  * Carondelet Park
  * St. Mary's High School
  * Pevely Dairy Company Plant
  * Pius XII Memorial Library
  * Powell Hall
  * Cupples House
  * Ted Drewes, the Grand location of the locally famous Frozen custard stands
  * Edward Adelbert Doisy Research Center
  * KDHX 88.1 FM community radio, located directly off of Grand Boulevard
  * Missouri School for the Blind, located off of Grand Blvd, the first school to adopt the Braille alphabet in America, and a teacher invented the first Braille printing press
  * Grand Avenue Water Tower, the older Corinthian water tower in North St. Louis
  