throatybeard wrote: ↑Jul 07, 2021
chriss752 wrote: ↑Jul 07, 2021
throatybeard wrote: ↑Jul 06, 2021
And at this point, I'd trust anything this developer says about negative ten percent.
They're getting the project done are they not? That was a whole lot of talk. When no one on here knows what goes on behind the scenes prompting a push Bach, wanting to say that you're not going to trust this developer's words is laughable. The announcement timeframe is now late summer/early fall. A grocery store/market-like tenant will be here and the announcement will eventually come.
If I were the developer, I would announce prior to the development opening up next year.
My mistrust of them has very little to do with timeframe and everything to with the racism they spewed in justifying the project. They may think residents are too stupid to see through their code for "we had to get rid of that strip mall with the Black people at it," but guess what, we aren't.
Yes, because that sh*tty strip mall and parking lot were SOOO much better for the City and neighborhood than what we're getting there currently.
This project had nothing to do with running minority owned businesses and people out of the neighborhood. The thing was mostly vacant and looked terrible. It was a major detraction to the neighborhood's aesthetics and didn't fit the Transit Oriented Development plan for the neighborhood and area. There were several things going wrong with it long before you could even pull "racism" out of the air.
If you and others think and thought the development was truly "racist", then you should've complained during the neighborhood meetings and contacted the developer to complain. The ship has long sailed and you, and people who have the same mindset as you, been left on the dock as it sails away to prosperity. It's just "racist" because you and others hate it, and that's fine. Call it a "grotesque matchstick interstate motel looking pile of lumber" if you want but overall, it's a clear improvement over what was once there.
Built by developers obsessed in their public comments with crime, of which there was very little at the strip mall, who called a functioning strip mall blighted because there were AfAm businesses in it, and on whose consruction site you see only white laborers.
This comment right here proves that your hate for the project has absolutely nothing to do with the development itself and everything with the developer. Forget "racism" for a moment and think. All you want is that strip mall back, which was a terrible land use. You're sour that a developer is investing millions into a neighborhood in the City of St. Louis and along a street that went to hell pretty quickly and is now being transformed. And in case you weren't aware, you and your neighborhoods live in a part of the city where land values are at a premium and apartments consistently fill up because this is where people want to be. Low-density usages like a strip mall and parking lot, of which the owners were willing to make a deal to sell and develop on, is not what this city needs. We need more developments like Expo to link our neighborhoods and stitch back the density that we once had (and there will be more).
If you and your neighbors don't like it, well then I don't know what to tell you all. You're stuck with this now no matter how much you hate it.
