The Laclede Gas Building is a 31-story, skyscraper located at 720 Olive Street in Downtown St. Louis,

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. It was designed by the

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architecture firm, and was built between 1967 and 1969 for the

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, which had outgrown its 10-story building at 1017 Olive Street. The

vacated the building in March 2015, after 45 years in the space. The building has since been converted to mixed-use, and presently consists of both office and residential spaces. Uniquely, all power for the building is generated in-house using

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burning generators, and therefore is not interconnected to the

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power grid. The building also houses one of the eastbound entrances to MetroLink's 8th & Pine subway station.

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