The TIF Trade: The Treasurer, the Argyle Garage and a Huge Pile of Cash

"BUT WHERE WILL PEOPLE PARK?" It’s a question for the ages in car-dependent towns like St. Louis, and it was one of the issues city...

“Deck Chairs On The Titanic”: Ehlmann Blasts STL 2030 Jobs Plan

ST. CHARLES COUNTY EXECUTIVE STEVE EHLMANN is sharply criticizing a draft plan from a new business group in St. Louis that aims...

The TIF Trade: The Argyle TIF Explained in Six Charts

MCPHERSON HAS ONLY BEEN publishing for four months, but already there's a problem: verbosity. It's understandable to get carried away while plumbing the depths...

St. Louis and Its Schools Set For $46 Million From Expiring Tax Abatements

The year 2018 will bring some milestone anniversaries: 100 years since the end of World War I, 50 years since the assassinations of Martin...

Bill To Amend Argyle TIF Would Send Millions to City and Its Schools

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CITY HALL’S COFFERS and museums and libraries across the city would get a cash infusion this year totaling...

STL 2030 Jobs Plan: Text Of Steve Ehlmann’s Letter To Mark Wrighton

Mark S. Wrighton, PhDJames and Mary Wertsch Distinguished University ProfessorChancellor EmeritusWashington University in St....

Housing Costs In St. Louis City Remain Affordable, Poll Finds

HOUSING COSTS IN ST. LOUIS CITY are generally affordable, according to a February poll of likely voters. About 79%...

Six Things To Know About The STL 2030 Jobs Plan

FOR GREATER ST. LOUIS INC., the new business-civic organization that officially came into being on Jan. 1, it’s crunch time.

Megan Green, Jamilah Nasheed Weigh In on TIFs, Parking Money

SOME OF THE MONEY in the Argyle TIF should be used to buy additional garbage trucks for the city of St. Louis. City leaders need...

Six Things That “One Hundred” Tells Us

IN FEBRUARY, CONSTRUCTION BEGAN on the most ambitious residential project in St. Louis’s Central West End in nearly a century. The One Hundred building is a...

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