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Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:02 am
2018 Predictions
1. The lawsuit by the City, County, and State against Stan Kroenke, the Rams LLC, and the NFL will go to full trial. Discovery will be very damaging. If STL wins, and the fraud charges stick, then there will be massive punitive damage awards, possible in the nine-figures and maybe producing an annuity-like trail of team/League revenues to STL. There will be appeals.
2. St. Louis-Lambert International Airport will not go through with a lease to a private entity.
3. Direct flights to Germany are likely with the Bayer-Monsanto merger.
4. More flights will go into Concourse D.
5. STL will make the final cuts for Amazon HQ2; I continue to think we have a 20% chance of winning it all.
6. Regardless of the final decision on HQ2, Express Scripts and Amazon will partner up.
7. Private equity funding to emerging companies will increase, from both local and national investors.
8. More international companies will be establishing their US HQs in STL, especially Israelis and Irish.
9. Steve Stenger loses reelection. Big time.
10. The Missouri General Assembly will push hard for regional government consolidation, maybe becoming a statewide ballot issue.
11. Medicinal cannabis also gets on the statewide ballot.
12. Boeing gets the contract to manufacture new fighter-trainer aircraft.
13. West Lake Landfill gets more federal cleanup money, but as they work to fix it, they discover it’s a lot worse than is currently known. Maybe Coldwater Creek will get the coverage it deserves.
14. More barge traffic will include standard cargo containers, offloaded at America’s Central Port in Granite City.
15. The STL Regional Freightway gets their funding for fully redoing the Merchants Bridge.
16. High speed rail between Chicago and STL will open and be reasonably successful for passengers, and more successful for cargo.
17. The Loop Trolley opens, finally, and is minimally successful.
18. There will be some progress towards Hyperloop between STL and KC, but not a groundbreaking.
19. Photos will get out showing the NGA West site is getting built very deep underground.
20. Efforts towards an MLS expansion franchise will re-emerge for the next round of teams, but it’ll take a major local investor to step up.
21. The national press eats up the Arch Grounds renovations upon its reopening. Which is nice.
Dark Horse: Blues get to the Finals.