March 2016 - nextSTL

March 31, 2016 55 comments

nextSTL has learned that the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to locate its new headquarters in north St. Louis…

March 30, 2016 16 comments

We have to start with the fact it’s just stupid to do traffic plan on a ward-by-ward (1/28th of the…

March 28, 2016 2 comments

Seemingly under threat annually of late, the Missouri Historic Preservation Tax Credit program appears to face a more clear road…

March 25, 2016 31 comments

A unique four-unit single family development in The Grove has received an endorsement for tax abatement from the Park Central…

March 24, 2016 38 comments

The latest round of Census estimates have been released, and while there may be few surprises, the numbers offer several…

March 23, 2016 8 comments

It’s nextSTL.com in a podcast! In this episode we speak with Scott Ogilvie, 24th Ward alderman in the City of…

March 22, 2016 44 comments

Two propositions by the Metropolitan Sewer District are on the April 5 ballot. As I outlined last year both are…

March 21, 2016 18 comments

After a visit to St. Louis, architect Peter Rush of Sydney, Australia sent me a couple sketches he had completed…

March 21, 2016 5 comments

Despite the housing recovery since the Great Recession, the change in assessed value of our school districts in recent years…

March 17, 2016 1 comment

At its March 11 meeting, the Pine Lawn Board of Alderman (8 among 4 wards of 850 people) voted to…

March 14, 2016 15 comments

Metro is celebrating the opening of the $10.2M North County Metro Transit Center and a reconfiguration of bus routes to…

March 11, 2016 18 comments

When we posted a story in January of last year that the old Polar Wave ice factory in Soulard would…