#JeffArmsPID
Developer Alterra Worldwide returns to the SLDC incentive trough when the project is 97% complete.

“We already started the project, the project’s underway, & here we are coming back to the trough, so to speak,” Cohn said.
Creation of #JeffArmsPID passes 4 - 3.

See also #JeffArmsCID & #BOAbb19
September 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
SLDC intentionally delayed posting the draft minutes of the 8/14 meeting until today.
The #JeffArmsPID public hearing minutes are skeletal B.S.
I was the only person who testified. My 4 minute comments are summarized in 1 sentence that omits the fact that I expressed my opposition to the project.
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Mark your calendar for the Oct. 9 & 13 #DataCenterSTL town halls for #500Prospect

Rod Thomas has added Doug Rasmussen/Steadfast City to his campaign bullpen. Will Steadfast staff deceive city officials & the public about the project's details? Refer to the #JeffArmsPID

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October 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Over and done with in 5 minutes!
Watch today's Board of #EandA meeting here: www.youtube.com/live/9rzffyC...

Sadly E and A did not take up my suggested discussion item: #JeffArmsTIF
FT: #JeffArmsPID #PortAuthoritySTL #JeffArmsCID #BOAbb19 & multiple cases of #TransparencyFail #opaCITYstl at SLDC.
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It's less than 6 days until the #PortAuthoritySTL hearing on the #JeffArmsPID

SLDC published a Notice of Public Hearing in the Aug. 1 edition of the St. Louis Daily Record.
The paper is available:
📰 City Hall newspaper box for $1.25
🖥️ Annual subscription of $199
📰 Central Library, 1301 Olive
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August 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
ICYMI: At 9 a.m. on August 14, the #PortAuthoritySTL will conduct a Public Hearing on the creation of City of STL Port Improvement District #2 for the Jefferson Arms project.👇

To testify, you must email [email protected] by 9 a.m. on 8/13.
See ALT in /1
#JeffArmsPID #JeffArmsCID #JeffArmsTIF
Do you want to stop a 40 year tax giveaway for the Jefferson Arms?
Testify at the 8/14 #PortAuthoritySTL Zoom hearing!

ALT 1: web calendar notice
(no agenda/hearing notice as of 1:45 pm. today)

ALT 2: hearing notice includes info on registering to testify #JeffArmsTIF
#JeffArmsPID
#JeffArmsCID
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August 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hey look SLDC & Mayor Spencer👇

The most recent edition Daily Record on the shelf today at Central Library is 6/1. SLDC placed the Notice of Hearing for the #JeffArmsPID in the 8/1 paper.

You can’t just do the bare legal minimum for posting #PortAuthoritySTL hearings.
NO hearing info was online!
August 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Video of 8/14 Public Hearing by the Port Authority for the creation of "Port Improvement District No. 2" aka #JeffArmsPID
youtu.be/nKwNWe1IDKQ?...
Url to 1:40. Runs to 47:45.

The resolution (PT-14) to take the necessary steps to create the PID was tabled until the 9/11 Port meeting.
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City of St. Louis Port Authority Board Meeting – August 14, 2025
YouTube video by Develop St. Louis
youtu.be
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
💯 agreed. Meetings of all SLDC boards should be live-streamed on Youtube, as is the case for the BOA.

SLDC has betrayed the public trust by failing to update its 2017 analysis of the Jefferson Arms project. The analysis should include all #taxingdistrictsSTL sought by the developer.
#JeffArmsPID
September 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
11:55 a.m. update on 8/14 #PortAuthoritySTL meeting:
Full board packet was posted between 10:30 a.m. & 11:10 a.m. today, AFTER the 9 a.m. speaker registration deadline* for the #JeffArmsPID hearing.

The hearing must be cancelled!

*Per hearing notice that was provided to me by an SLDC atty on 8/4.
August 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Update to #PortAuthoritySTL meeting & Public Hearing on creation of the #JeffArmsPID
At 4:05 p.m. today, the meeting agenda was posted: www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...

The resolutions & hearing details have not been posted, as of 4:38 p.m.
Res. PT-14 approves the petition for City of STL PID #2
August 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The obfuscatory shenanigans by the St. Louis Development Corporation regarding tomorrow’s 9 a.m #PortAuthoritySTL public hearing reminded me of an old meme.
#JeffArmsPID
#JeffArmsTDD
#JeffArmsCID #BOAbb19
#opaCITYstl
August 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fact-check, part 2: At the 8.14.25 public hearing for the #JeffArmsPID, Hartzler misrepresented details about the use tax in the original draft petition to create the PID No. 2.

At the 9.11.25 meeting, Hartzler stated that the language for the use tax was removed for the revised draft PID petition.
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“We already started the project, the project’s underway, & here we are coming back to the trough, so to speak,” Cohn said.
Thanks to #PortAuthoritySTL members Cohn, Kay & Mason for voting NO on the #JeffArmsPID
Shameful performance by SLDC & Alterra's consultant N. Hartzler
#JeffArmsTIF #JeffArmsCID
September 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today at 9 a.m. Zoom.
#PortAuthoritySTL will vote to set a hearing & initiate process to establish a THIRD taxing district for the Jefferson Arms project.
SLDC’s outside bond counsel will do most of the talking, because SLDC has nothing to do with establishing LTDs, or so they say.👀
#JeffArmsPID
Thurs. at 9 a.m. St. Louis #PortAuthoritySTL Zoom meeting.
Details: tinyurl.com/ypmhzsme

Res. PT-13 is the 1st step in creating a 3rd taxing district for the #JeffArmsTIF project 😡
"Jefferson Arms Port Improvement District"
An extra 3% 💵 for your 🍸 at Clandestino's Speakeasy

See #JeffArmsTIF BB 19
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Given Nick Hartzler’s steadfast habit of sharing misleading or false info about the Jefferson Arms taxing districts*, I have no confidence that the public will receive accurate information on all the incentives that are being/will be sought

* #JeffArmsCID #BOAbb19
* #JeffArmsPID #PortAuthoritySTL
October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨 Read my ongoing 🧵on the 8/14 #PortAuthoritySTL Public Hearing on the creation of City of St. Louis Port Improvement District #2 - a taxing district for the Jefferson Arms project.👇

To testify email: [email protected] by 9 a.m. on 8/13.
See ALT in /1

#JeffArmsPID #JeffArmsCID #JeffArmsTIF
Do you want to stop a 40 year tax giveaway for the Jefferson Arms?
Testify at the 8/14 #PortAuthoritySTL Zoom hearing!

ALT 1: web calendar notice
(no agenda/hearing notice as of 1:45 pm. today)

ALT 2: hearing notice includes info on registering to testify #JeffArmsTIF
#JeffArmsPID
#JeffArmsCID
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August 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨 Register A.S.A.P!
The deadline for speaker registration is 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13.

To register to testify at the public hearing, contact Janet Harris at [email protected] or by telephone at 314-657-3795, or 314-589-6000 (TTY)

#TaxingDistrictsSTL
#LetYourVoiceBeHeard
#JeffArmsPID
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August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
At 9 a.m. today SLDC made the video recording of the 8/14 #PortAuthoritySTL & 8/14 STL Local Development Company Zoom meetings available for public viewing on YouTube.
All SLDC meetings should be live-streamed on YouTube & archived promptly.
🔗 to follow.
Port meeting inc hearing on #JeffArmsPID
August 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Calling @caraspencer.bsky.social
Is your staff tracking the creation of the 3 taxing districts for the Jefferson Arms?
SLDC’s lack of transparency & failure to perform due diligence for the Port Improvement District have been a disgrace. The #JeffArmsPID petition should be halted
See also #BOAbb19
September 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🚨🚨 Register by 9 a.m. today to hearing on the creation of a 40 year Port Improvement District to provide millions in public $ to the Jefferson Arms developers.

Contact Janet Harris at [email protected] or by telephone at 314-657-3795, or 314-589-6000 (TTY)

#JeffArmsPID
August 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This week in STL's Tale of Two Cities ⬇️

#JeffArmsCID BB 19 at BOA & #JeffArmsPID at Port

#AlbionTower work starts.

#200South4th
a) SLPS Board of Education "voted NO"
b) Announcement of Millennium site acquisition

#CortexSTL at Planning Commission

In North STL:
🌪️ recovery
#DelDiv2 at IDA x 2
July 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
See ALT on images for more info.

At the 7/10/25 meeting of the #PortAuthoritySTL, the board approved* Res. 25-PT-13, which authorized the preparation of the petition to create the #JeffArmsPID & set the public hearing date. tinyurl.com/r8ah2kbk
See pages 3-5 & images 3-4.
*4 ayes, 2 present.

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August 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Don’t believe the projected tax revenue figures from the developer for #500Prospect in #ArmoryTIF district.
City officials have shown little appetite for scrutinizing a developer’s financial claims.
See #JeffArmsCID & #JeffArmsPID for recent failures of the BOA & SLDC to check a developer’s math
September 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Story on the 8/14 public hearing on the creation of the #JeffArmsPID by @kavahnmansouri.bsky.social
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Has SLDC staff provided all #JeffArmsTIF project info requested by #PortAuthoritySTL members on 8/14?

Is there a financial analysis justifying the creation of the PID?
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“We’ve got the CID, we’ve got the TDD — the tax rate right now will be 11.67%,” Kay said. “That’s the high mark for the city. I do not think the #PortAuthoritySTL needs to get into the business of subsidizing these projects"

The Port board tabled Res. 14 for the #JeffArmsPID until its 9/11 meeting.
A Dallas-based developer’s quest to stack three taxing districts on a Downtown West redevelopment hit a bump in the road during St. Louis Port Authority Commission meeting today.

Here's why:
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM