{"id":3763,"date":"2007-05-16T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:13:33","slug":"maybe-the-developers-are-trying-to-tell-you-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/maybe-the-developers-are-trying-to-tell-you-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe The Developers Are Trying To Tell You Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis&#8217;s Bottleworks District, one of its centrally-planned collections of retail and housing in an already glutted market, has run into trouble.  However, the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/44412AE05443B2FA862572DC00096E82?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">rah-rahs<\/a> that in spite of the developers backing away:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last initiative, announced in September 2005, called for three high-rise condo buildings on the approximately 16-acre site \u2014 the tallest of which would be 630 feet. The city pledged a $51.3 million tax break.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Ghazi Co., based in Charlotte, N.C., was named co-developer and Clayco was the general contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the project has stalled, and Ghazi dropped out about eight months ago, giving rise to speculation that the Bottle District may be dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><b>51.3 million dollars<\/b><\/i> given up by the strapped city of St. Louis apparently wasn&#8217;t enough.  Still, the optimism of the project in the article is based soundly on someone involved in the project saying that the project is recalibrating and is going swimmingly.<\/p>\n<p>Except that no one&#8217;s building it.<\/p>\n<p>Probably because the stone doesn&#8217;t have enough blood to wring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis&#8217;s Bottleworks District, one of its centrally-planned collections of retail and housing in an already glutted market, has run into trouble. However, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch rah-rahs that in spite of the developers backing away: The last initiative, announced in September 2005, called for three high-rise condo buildings on the approximately 16-acre site \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18085,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/18085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}