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Committee advances amendment to stadium special improvement district to add office, parcels and park area
Summary
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen housing committee voted to advance Board Bill 168, which would amend the stadium special improvement district (SID) boundaries to add the team's front office, previously excluded parcels and part of Alo Park West to pay for event-related security, trash pickup and upgrades funded by sales and use tax.
The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen’s Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee advanced Board Bill 168 out of committee with a due-pass recommendation after hearing testimony about boundary changes to the stadium special improvement district (SID).
Alderman Alman Aldridge introduced the bill and called Courtney Miller, director of public engagement for St. Louis City SC, to explain the changes. “My name is Courtney Miller. I’m the director of public engagement for St. Louis City SC,” Miller said, and described the SID’s purpose as a way for the privately operated district to recover some infrastructure costs tied to the stadium and surrounding development.
Miller told the committee the original SID covered roughly 32 acres of what she called the stadium district and that…
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