ST. LOUIS — After an often tense hearing, a ӣƵ Board of Aldermen committee narrowly advanced a controversial bill on Wednesday that could provide as much as $8 million in subsidies for a planned health care facility affiliated with developer Paul McKee.
More money for McKee? ӣƵ aldermen advance $8 million TIF for McKee-affiliated project
Attorney Darryl Piggee (left), former chief of staff of Democratic Congressman William "Lacy" Clay, and developer Paul McKee (right) applaud as high ranking politicians from Missouri hold a press conference in ӣƵ on Friday, April 1, 2016 celebrating the announcement that ӣƵ was chosen as the site to build the new western headquarters for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
Final vote expected next week.
Aldermen voted 23-2 to pass the measure despite city officials’ pending efforts to cancel a much larger 2009 development agreement with a McKe…
Controversial developer had until Dec. 31 to prove it could finance hospital project. Now it has until August.
The medical facility had a deadline of this week to prove it had financing.
As her wall teetered, Evie Williamson-Moore was approached by a buyer who promised to build her a new house in exchange for her title. She sai…
The original hospital served Black ӣƵans during segregation and trained generations of Black doctors.
Most of the ‘paper-only’ transactions that caught the government’s attention occurred in 2012 or earlier, outside the statute of limitations.
The request comes after McKee, his lender the Bank of Washington and their lawyers have spent over a year fighting the city over the terminati…
John Cross, whose initials appear in federal indictment, also worked at the ӣƵ Economic Development Partnership for a year.
But the controversial developer, who still controls hundreds of properties near the new NGA campus, says he deserves credit for ‘remarkable results.’
The 2012 sale between a close associate of McKee, credited with helping write the distressed area tax credit law, was seller-financed.
Prominent local firms were beneficiaries; critic says it's evidence 'McKee was using the tax credit program as a bank rather than as a means t…
The allegations came out in trial to decide a challenge to the value of a property the city acquired by eminent domain as it was assembling la…
The Congressman's defense of the developer follows new information on his use of state tax credits.
A rift between City Hall and developer Paul McKee’s NorthSide Regeneration has a $6.4 million request for city subsidies related to the develo…
In scathing letter to Bank of Washington, ӣƵ said the $116 million NorthSide wanted for its acres was "so extreme that no amount of neg…
