Proposal Moves Closer For “New” St. Louis of 1.3 Million People
A LOCAL NONPROFIT overseen by civic leaders and business executives is working on a proposal to combine St. Louis city and...
CWE Parking TIF Now Worth $23 Million In Tax Money
A SINGLE PARKING GARAGE in the Central West End is turning into one of the city’s most expensive tax increment financing deals, keeping millions...
St. Louis City Sees Brisk Growth in Real Estate Taxes
REAL ESTATE TAX REVENUE in St. Louis City jumped by more than 5 percent in 2018 after several years of tepid growth, the latest...
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...
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...
The TIF Trade: A Curious Case of Missing City Data
ON A SUNNY FRIDAY MORNING RECENTLY, the Southtown Centre strip mall in St. Louis was a moderately busy place. Delivery trucks from FedEx and...
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...
Six Months On From The Stockley Protests: A (Mostly) Silent Spring
Police in riot gear, helicopters circling overhead, TV cameras and hundreds of people marching. This was downtown St. Louis in September as protesters filled...
A Towering Disparity
Today, just as it did in 1931, the unmistakable edifice of the Chase Park Plaza overlooks Forest Park as an entire city’s monument to...
Six Months On From The Stockley Protests: City, County Spend $8.3 Million on Police...
St. Louis County has spent $1.5 million on overtime pay for its police force since September to deal with protests following the acquittal on...
