{"id":5722,"date":"2010-03-15T07:27:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2010-03-15T07:27:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:27:29","slug":"do-taxpayers-have-a-say-in-wallpaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/do-taxpayers-have-a-say-in-wallpaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Taxpayers Have A Say In Wallpaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;city&#8221; of St. Louis, the alderman are happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/601FE00E32F70636862576E5000D86B2?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">spending taxpayer money renovating for-profit business<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aldermen approved tax increment financing and other public assistance that could reach $28.7 million. The redevelopment area is comprised mainly of the 21-story Railway Exchange Building, which houses Macy&#8217;s, and the parking garage across Olive Street from the store.<\/p>\n<p>Macy&#8217;s plans to downsize the store from seven to three floors. Much of the first phase of TIF funding \u2014 $8.4 million \u2014 will be used in the store remodeling, Young said. The company has yet to provide remodeling details.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I should call any business in downtown St. Louis &#8220;for-profit&#8221; with quotation marks since so much of the business model seems to be getting money and concessions from government entities instead of consumers.  But what &#8220;consumers&#8221; want to go downtown, pay to park, and then pay almost 10% in sales tax to shop at Macy&#8217;s downtown when they can get the same thing at a suburban mall?  Even the half dozen or so residents of lofts downtown pull the Mini out of the garage and go to the suburbs to shop.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should have titled this post &#8220;businesses whose logos are red stars and governments whose should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;city&#8221; of St. Louis, the alderman are happy spending taxpayer money renovating for-profit business: Aldermen approved tax increment financing and other public assistance that could reach $28.7 million. The redevelopment area is comprised mainly of the 21-story Railway Exchange Building, which houses Macy&#8217;s, and the parking garage across Olive Street from the store. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","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=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5726,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}