innov8ion wrote:Doug wrote:Are you f***ing KIDDING ME!
Downtown has another parking lot and a softball field?
How podunk is this town!!!!!
What's supposed to be the highest land values and we have basically useless space.
If you want something else, you pay for it. We're in a recession that's heading toward a depression. Let's try to think with some semblance of reason here.
This was supposed to be already in construction. The recession shouldn't have had any factor, especially considering the subsidy issued for both BPV and the Stadium.
The Robert's Brothers are building and we're in a recession. It's not an excuse and really the solution to end the recession would be billionaires and the City actually making this project happen thus using the money that's already on the table, creating jobs, and stimulating the economy.
This is so inexcusable and really makes us look so 3rd tier it's not even funny. I could really only see this more laughable if we had an RV parking lot which actually was one of the proposals for the Archgrounds.
We've demolished a great Stadium, Bush II, for this faux historic piece of sh*t, which has not stimulated downtown economic redevelopment, and we've put up more public money for BPV. Yet none of this came to fruition, we still have seas of parking around the stadium, a suburbanites wet dream, and still this hole, now to be a softball field and parking lot.
Like with Paul McKee we are destroying our built environment for fantasies sold by our alleged "leadership" but they don't deliver. Where is Bottleworks, where is Chouteau's Pond, where is the Riverfront, the Gateway Mall, these are all projects which we have failed to deliver upon or have been done half-ass in typical St. Louis fashion. Yet these projects have all been sold as saving our City, attracting back suburbanites, and making us fiscally sound.
It's a ironic disconnect: we claim to need these projects but we can't deliver meanwhile we let movements which have shown to have proven tract records, like ONSL, languish. We've seen the power of rehabilitation in Soulard and Lafayette Square yet we have State Legislators talking about cutting the State Historic Tax Credit. Why are we not lobbying for expanded funding for these endeavors as they show real measurable result? With these projects we can see our tax dollars at work as they actually break ground and people by into them!
In reality we need to invest more in residential rehab downtown and our neighborhoods. We don't need these mega projects to be a City, especially when they are proposed with PR genius yet never seem to occur. That only damages our civic pride and stimulates animosity against our process of governance which we are ultimately supposed to hold in high regard and want to be engaged in.
The more we are let down the more we hate ourselves and honestly I love St. Louis. I'm tired of feeling bad for our decisions and it's getting really old, fast.
