According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis Zoo has purchased the old Fores Park Hospital on Oakland with plans to expand southward past the Interstate. Below is an artist’s rendering of the proposed improvements. Full story found at:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-zoo-to-buy-forest-park-hospital-site/article_f65ae8e4-6c5f-11e1-98b5-001a4bcf6878.html

What the future intersection of Hampton and Oakland may look like when the Zoo develops the old Forest Park Hospital site