The Coca-Cola Company arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1902, opening the first bottling works at 1109 Clark Avenue. In 1924, the bottling plant was moved to a new facility at North Market and Garrison Avenue. Due to the rapid expansion of the company and demands for the distribution of the product, a new syrup plant was opened in South St. Louis at 8125 Michigan which was owned and operated by corporate headquarters out of Atlanta. The plant would distribute syrup to not only the local bottlers in St. Louis but throughout Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee and into portions of lllinois.The Coca-Cola Syrup Plant at 8125-8129 Michigan Avenue sits on the southwest corner of Michigan and Davis Streets, facing southeast. It encompasses the entire City Block 3179 bounded by Michigan Avenue on the east, Virginia Street on the west, Davis Street on the south and Poepping Street on the north. Although Coca-Cola Bottling plants are numerous, the syrup plants were few due to the strict control of the Coca-Cola formula by the corporation. The Coca-Cola Syrup Plant on Michigan Avenue was the only syrup plant in the state of Missouri from the time the company moved into the building in 1937 until it closed in 1988, and one of only two syrup plants serving the Midwest Region. The Coca-Cola Company had fifteen total operational syrup manufacturing plants serving the United States from 1895 to the present. This photo was taken several years ago, after the building was rehabbed into loft apartments & condos.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:46:49 +0000
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