{"id":2659,"date":"2005-09-11T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:19:25","slug":"cheaper-than-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/cheaper-than-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper Than Eminent Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out, Crestwood: a private consultant hired by the city has told the city that it has to renovate a privately-owned mall or lose tax revenue.  Of course, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/BA91F4B66B1010FA8625707800124E4C?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">couched it in waivers and wherefores<\/a>, but what do you think the local government heard?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While he proposes redevelopment, Melaniphy [the consultant] doesn&#8217;t advise Crestwood on whether the city should use public funds for the project. That&#8217;s something the city and Westfield will have to iron out, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If financial assistance can be used to keep a Macy&#8217;s or a big anchor store, the board should at least listen and see if we can accommodate that,&#8221; Robinson [Crestwood&#8217;s Mayor] said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation: The government should use tax dollars to ensure that it continues receiving tax dollars.  Serve the citizens?  No, modern government serves itself first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out, Crestwood: a private consultant hired by the city has told the city that it has to renovate a privately-owned mall or lose tax revenue. Of course, he couched it in waivers and wherefores, but what do you think the local government heard? While he proposes redevelopment, Melaniphy [the consultant] doesn&#8217;t advise Crestwood on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19224,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/19224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}