St. Louis' bid for soccer team back in play after second vote
ST. LOUIS • The city’s Major League Soccer stadium proposal may have more lives than the average house cat.
About one hour — and millions of dollars in projected new city revenue — made the difference between the death of St. Louis’ Major League Soccer bid at 10 a.m. and its surprising resuscitation at 11 a.m. in the Aldermanic Ways and Means Committee at City Hall.
Next it goes to the full Board of Aldermen for referral to city voters.
The city’s $60 million contribution to the downtown stadium, valued in total between $155 million and $200 million, was first defeated 6-2 on Thursday. Aldermen, attorneys and SC STL team investors rapidly poured out of the room after the vote to negotiate in the mayor’s office.
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We have a nice empty football stadium (courtesy of the Rams) that is still on the taxpayer's dole and now we need public money for another sports stadium. I guess we are simply to give all our money to the 1% and wander off into the woods and die. Then they can watch their sports being played in the stadiums that the public built for them.
