Plans are moving ahead for a $150 million transformation of the former Dillard’s department store downtown into apartments, a hotel, shops and restaurants.

Developer Amos Harris says he hopes the project is done in early 2012. Included in the work is…

They have helped revive tired old houses across his district and much of St. Louis.

Now Rep. Russ Carnahan is trying to help residential historic tax credits go national.

The congressman from south St. Louis plans to introduce a bill Tuesday that…

What will the resignation of state Sen. Jeff Smith mean for Missouri’s Historic Tax Credits program?

Clearly, it’s too soon to know for sure. A special election will be held to fill his seat Nov. 3, and the credits program was just…

Another session of the Missouri Legislature is through, and with it, another fight over the state’s historic tax credit program - that economic tool that developers credit with the revitalization of downtown St. Louis and some of the city’s neighborhoods.

This…

Where’s Jay Nixon?

That’s what supporters of Missouri’s historic tax credit want to know as the credit’s future remains in doubt in the state legislature. The supporters are perplexed by what they say is the governor’s silence on the issue.

The tax…

The legislative session is in its final weeks and things appear to be moving quickly over the future of Missouri’s historic tax credit program.

Supporters of the credits say they provide a major boost to rehabilitation of historic, significant buildings across…

St. Louis civic blogger-turned-21st-Ward-Alderman Antonio French has revamped his website, pubdef.org in an effort to, as he puts it “change the game.”

His first fight? Saving historic tax credits, which have been the subject of fierce debate in Jefferson City this session.

Log…

The Landmarks Association of St. Louis is beating the bushes to rally support to preserve Missouri’s historic tax credit.

Urging lawmakers to keep the credit intact is “extremely important,” Landmarks head Jeff Mansell says. It’s the state’s most effective development credit,…