Time to Petition NorthSide for LEED ND

{many details of NorthSide remain fuzzy, like many of the plan's renderings, LEED ND might be the answer}

With the news that Paul McKee’s NorthSide Regeneration Plan has won its pivotal Missouri Supreme Court ruling on the $390 million Tax Increment Financing package approved by the City of St. Louis in 2009, NorthSide looks set to move forward. Which brings up the question that led to the lawsuit against the TIF package in the first place: what is NorthSide?

The Circuit Court’s ruling that invalidated the TIF package ruled that it was in conflict with the TIF act because the redevelopment plan lacked “the inclusion of defined redevelopment projects.” In effect, the court ruled that the City had given McKee $390 million without even knowing what they were buying. Although in overruling this judgment, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the Circuit Court did not have the legal standing to make this argument, the criticism remains valid.