Watch the BOA Public Infrastructure Committee meeting public hearing live here: www.youtube.com/live/8Yk6Wfy...
3:40 p.m Start of #BOAres111 #DataCenterSTL
3:46 p.m. City STL Planning Urban Design Agency's Miriam Keller presentation.
3:52 p.m. Ald. Schweitzer explains Res. 111 & Exec. Order 92
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The tax break propaganda machine is shifting into high gear.
Follow @stephkukuljan.bsky.social for more details.
#DataCenterSTL
FT:
#500Prospect #ArmoryTIF #ArmoryCID
#GreenStreetBailout
#DeadbeatDeveloper
#NightmareOnGreedStreet
#BOAres111
#LawyersOfTIF
#EndSubsidySecrecy
#WhoBenefits ?
Today at 3:30 p.m.
BOA Public Infrastructure Committee hearing on #BOAres111 for data centers.
Testify at city hall or via Zoom.
Email comments to: boameetings@stlouis-mo.gov
We need a moratorium, by ordinance, on #datacenterSTL
#ArmoryTIF #SLU353
Details:
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...
In case anyone was expecting transparency regarding the value of Missouri's incentives for data centers (new facility or expansion): by law the financial data is kept confidential.
#DataCenterSTL
#EndSubsidySecrecy
#BOAres111
Rod Thomas/THO wants to partner with the City of St. Louis to develop #DataCenterSTL "guidelines."
The public hearing on data center #BOAres111 is on 10/1 at 3:30 p.m. tinyurl.com/4fhupkc7
FYI: Resolutions are not legally enforceable.
Is the #500Prospect proposal another case of #TheFixIsIn314?
Screen capture image of the Missouri Ethics Commission webpage (accessed 9/26/25), showing David Sweeney (Lewis Rice) as the registered lobbyist for THO Investments LLC. Rod Thomas of THO Investments is the applicant for a conditional use permit to construct a data center at 500 Prospect, within the Armory TIF district.
Screen capture image from the City of St. Louis YouTube video of the Board of the 7/11/23 HUDZ committee. Public hearing on Board Bill 30. Pictured: lobbyist David Sweeney being sworn in to speak on behalf of developer GreenStreet.
Screen capture image of MEC webpage, showing a list of the active principals for lobbyist David Sweeney (Lewis Rice). Webpage accessed on 9/26/25)
🚨 Yesterday lobbyist David Sweeney registered #DataCenterSTL developer THO Investments as a principal.
Sweeney has steered many projects through the tax incentive approval process. His clients includes St. Louis University which controls the #SLU353.
#ArmoryTIF
#EndSubsidySecrecy
#BOAres111