Municipal League Opposes Statewide Vote on St. Louis City-County Unification
IF BACKERS OF A POTENTIAL EFFORT to combine St. Louis City with St. Louis County try for a statewide vote in Missouri...
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...
Curse of the Penguin Haters
Editor's note: St. Louis County voters approved the Proposition Z sales tax on Nov. 6 with 61 percent of votes in favor.
IN 2013 THE...
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...
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...
