???JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑3:46 PM - Feb 12Where outside of the NE and the west coast do you find charming small towns that aren’t college towns or exurbs of larger metro areas? Certainly not Illinoisgoat314 wrote: ↑3:45 PM - Feb 10Missouri has some of the saddest small towns I've seen. The state really hasn't invested in the little main street districts that would actually make them charming.TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑3:28 PM - Feb 1050 million is a low cap. Isn't Goldman seeking $25 for ATT alone?
I agree the 10% disbursement to "rural" is vexing. What qualifies as rural? Don't all the small towns have main street district creation ability?
Just about every county seat has the traditional courthouse town square.
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Nobody actually cares about that, as I said above the entire program is designed to give railway $25m in one year and att $25 in another but it passing won’t move either building forward without bunch of other things that are part of this bigger bill
In a country of towns devastated by cars, yes.JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑7:40 PM - Feb 13That’s all it takes to be charming?
I love eating at greasy-spoon diners on small-town courthouse squares. One of my favorite things about road trips.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/bus ... -top-story
Two dozen laid off as FanDuel Sports is closing its St. Louis office located at Ballpark Village.
(St. Louis was the headquarters for Fox Sports/Bally Sports/FanDuel Sports Midwest)
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Two dozen laid off as FanDuel Sports is closing its St. Louis office located at Ballpark Village.
(St. Louis was the headquarters for Fox Sports/Bally Sports/FanDuel Sports Midwest)
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Coffee shop at Wash Ave and 10th opens later this month and a restaurant/marker and speakeasy in basement of former San Market sometimes in May
This will put the restaurant/bar count on the block to 9
This will put the restaurant/bar count on the block to 9
That 10% is nothing, First it’s not money that would have stayed in the city. It’s money that would have gone to the state anyway,
For example
Last year downtown generated about $90m
For the state in state sales tax. If this passes that will be the baseline, so in year after the bill passes and downtown generates $100m, that difference of $10m is where the 10% comes from for the rural fund, so $1m
Does anyone know whether MLB.tv will take over any of these operations locally? Or will it all be produced centrally?StlAlex wrote: ↑10:23 PM - Feb 13https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/bus ... -top-story
Two dozen laid off as FanDuel Sports is closing its St. Louis office located at Ballpark Village.
(St. Louis was the headquarters for Fox Sports/Bally Sports/FanDuel Sports Midwest)
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City’s biggest concern with a bill that would keep $100s of millions a year in state taxes in downtown is that it would have to staff a one stop desk for permitting? Jfc
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This schitt is maddening. DB, take the reins on this staffing issue.
Meanwhile the Missouri State Legislature is making the staffing issues woese by making the city spend more money on LE in an era of declining crime. This sh*t is in fact maddening but you support it.whitherSTL wrote:This schitt is maddening. DB, take the reins on this staffing issue.
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With AI tools that read/discern data and information quickly, is this that large of a lift?
^ bingo. The technology exists and leading engineering firms are working to implement. Larger challenge will be to get the bureaucrats to get comfortable with it. Plan review will be automated within next few years though.
Funny how you have flipped flopped on this issues. I was raising this concern over a year ago before Cara was elected and you seemed to defend the staffing levels. Glad you have come around.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑7:13 PM - Feb 18City’s biggest concern with a bill that would keep $100s of millions a year in state taxes in downtown is that it would have to staff a one stop desk for permitting? Jfc
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I have been on the same side of this issue since COVID started. Building permit review shouldSTLAPTS wrote: ↑10:26 PM - Feb 18Funny how you have flipped flopped on this issues. I was raising this concern over a year ago before Cara was elected and you seemed to defend the staffing levels. Glad you have come around.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑7:13 PM - Feb 18City’s biggest concern with a bill that would keep $100s of millions a year in state taxes in downtown is that it would have to staff a one stop desk for permitting? Jfc
hire contracted staffing.
Cara ran on fixing everything and the central tenant to fixing anything is improving the city's staffing, an issue that has objectively not improved at all coming up on her first year. This despite an abysmal jobs market where people should theoretically be grasping for a stable job.STLAPTS wrote:Funny how you have flipped flopped on this issues. I was raising this concern over a year ago before Cara was elected and you seemed to defend the staffing levels. Glad you have come around.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑7:13 PM - Feb 18City’s biggest concern with a bill that would keep $100s of millions a year in state taxes in downtown is that it would have to staff a one stop desk for permitting? Jfc
And her plan is getting pushed back because the state is raising police pay via the law she chose not to fight.
What's actually funny is how the chronic staffing issue the city has had for decades only became a problem in the last few years.
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You say that as if choosing to fight the law would've guarantee a quick victory. Most likely it would've wasted time and money for the cityStlAlex wrote: ↑11:19 PM - Feb 18Cara ran on fixing everything and the central tenant to fixing anything is improving the city's staffing, an issue that has objectively not improved at all coming up on her first year. This despite an abysmal jobs market where people should theoretically be grasping for a stable job.STLAPTS wrote:Funny how you have flipped flopped on this issues. I was raising this concern over a year ago before Cara was elected and you seemed to defend the staffing levels. Glad you have come around.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑7:13 PM - Feb 18City’s biggest concern with a bill that would keep $100s of millions a year in state taxes in downtown is that it would have to staff a one stop desk for permitting? Jfc
And her plan is getting pushed back because the state is raising police pay via the law she chose not to fight.
What's actually funny is how the chronic staffing issue the city has had for decades only became a problem in the last few years.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.Rick Prieto wrote: ↑6:29 PM - Feb 19You say that as if choosing to fight the law would've guarantee a quick victory. Most likely it would've wasted time and money for the cityStlAlex wrote: ↑11:19 PM - Feb 18Cara ran on fixing everything and the central tenant to fixing anything is improving the city's staffing, an issue that has objectively not improved at all coming up on her first year. This despite an abysmal jobs market where people should theoretically be grasping for a stable job.STLAPTS wrote: Funny how you have flipped flopped on this issues. I was raising this concern over a year ago before Cara was elected and you seemed to defend the staffing levels. Glad you have come around.
And her plan is getting pushed back because the state is raising police pay via the law she chose not to fight.
What's actually funny is how the chronic staffing issue the city has had for decades only became a problem in the last few years.
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Fiscally, yes, most likely.Otthouse wrote:Damned if you do, damned if you don't.Rick Prieto wrote: ↑6:29 PM - Feb 19You say that as if choosing to fight the law would've guarantee a quick victory. Most likely it would've wasted time and money for the cityStlAlex wrote: ↑11:19 PM - Feb 18Cara ran on fixing everything and the central tenant to fixing anything is improving the city's staffing, an issue that has objectively not improved at all coming up on her first year. This despite an abysmal jobs market where people should theoretically be grasping for a stable job.
And her plan is getting pushed back because the state is raising police pay via the law she chose not to fight.
What's actually funny is how the chronic staffing issue the city has had for decades only became a problem in the last few years.
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But being morally righteous in a time dominated by evil is better than just going along with the evil. Especially when the morally right position also had a pathway for greatest fiscal success. You're just ideologically weak to choose what the city chose.
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