10.28.2009 11:05 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sale of the Railway Exchange Building in downtown St. Louis is moving ahead with local developers prepared to reconfigure its main tenant–Macy’s–to three floors.
That’s the word this morning on Mayor Francis Slay’s website, mayorslay.com. According to the website, the city’s…

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10.19.2009 12:40 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
(Update: 11:48 a.m. Tuesday. Corrected to clarify that there may not be public comment).
St. Louis Aldermen wasted little time in setting a hearing on McEagle Properties’ big NorthSide redevelopment proposal.
The Board of Alderman’s subcommittee for Housing, Urban Development and Zoning…

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10.07.2009 10:35 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A St. Louis attorney is hoping to throw a legal roadblock in the path of McEagle Properties’ NorthSide project.
D. B. Amon said this morning he will seek a temporary restraining order, injunction and writ against the tax-backed financing and a…

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09.24.2009 10:31 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Some more tidbits from Wednesday night’s big TIF Commission hearing on McEagle Properties’ NorthSide plan…
- City officials are doing everything they can to ease fears of eminent domain. The latest version of the TIF includes explicit language that any use of…

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09.23.2009 12:57 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hours before a much-anticipated hearing of the city’s Tax Increment Financing Commission on its NorthSide project, a revised application from McEagle Properties has been made public.
Many of the changes fix typos and minor errors, but there are some pretty significant…

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09.22.2009 11:03 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Developer Paul McKee held another neighborhood meeting Monday night to talk about his big NorthSide plan, this one at a school in Old North St. Louis.
At most of these meetings, which McKee and Aldermen April Ford-Griffin and Marlene Davis have been…

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09.16.2009 12:30 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just a heads-up for those who are closely following McEagle Properties’ NorthSide Regeneration plan: The St. Louis City TIF Commission has posted on its website the updated TIF application in its entirety. This includes the redevelopment plan as well as…

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09.15.2009 5:32 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Maybe David Jackson’s just paranoid.
Or are they really out to get him?
In the latest illustration of the tension surrounding McEagle Properties’ NorthSide Regeneration project, Jackson – a member of the city board that must OK McEagle’s $398 million request for…

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08.07.2009 10:54 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The first big public hearing on McEagle Properties’ massive NorthSide redevelopment plan will be held Sept. 23. And it will be held in the evening.
That news capped a one hour, forty-five-minute meeting of the St. Louis Tax Increment Finance Commission…

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08.05.2009 5:24 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
On Friday morning, the massive NorthSide redevelopment proposal will start its long path through the St. Louis city approval process.
It’s just a hearing to set a hearing, but at 8 a.m. Friday, the city’s Tax Increment Financing Commission will meet and…

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