If every sq foot of office space in the 593 sq miles of St.Charles County was occupied, it would have about 4,000,000 less sq feet of occupied office space than the 1 sq mile downtown has today.

St.charles is a bedroom community, that’s never going to change.

Average job pay
St.Louis City: $79,605
St.Louis Co.: $76,917
St.Charles: 60,563

Total jobs
St.Louis City: 222,000
STL Co: 599,000
St.Charles:165,000

GDP
St.Louis City: $39billion
STL Co: $111b
St.Charles: $24b

GDP per capita
STL city: $138k
STL co.: $111k
St.Charles: $61k

Lower income residents leaving STL city and st.Charles as STL county gains lower income residents while losing higher income residents that STL city and st.Charles are gaining. Pretty clear pattern I’d say

There are no new renderings for the AT&T Tower project but we do have some older ones which could be a realistic option for the current plan, especially facing chestnut and the plans for the city to vacant it

City vacancies

Police number includes civilian support staff.

Airport & water division not part of this

The BPS number is the most concerning for me. BPS is the city’s engineering arm. We can program all the money we want to improve roads, bridges, etcbut at end of day bps executes that.

I think we were talking about darts and how bad Conner is at them

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STL region has 1 unit of government for every 3,039 people, only Denver has more gov

Unit of gov = city, county, fire protection districts, school district etc

New mayoral “polling” this weekend, likely by a thin-skinned challenger. Which arguments make you more likely to support the challenger. Which arguments make you less likely to support the incumbent.

Meanwhile crime continues to decline. We are on pace to finish 2024 with the lowest total and per capita for violent crime since 1960s.

St.Louis City continues to grow economically and still the economic engine of the region.

Positive I’m the one who made the “off the rails” comment in this story

As the candidate filing opens today for sprint 2025 city election, here is where known mayoral candidates stand campaign money wise

#winterfest #downtownstl

Remember when Market had a planted median?

Winterfest at Kiener opens Saturday and a first for this year the Lodge at Winterfest will be open. Lodge costs $25 and includes a drink (portion goes to the gateway arch park foundation to support its great work)

Downtown Crime and taxable sales data year to date and an explainer on crime data reporting from before 2021 and after