ST. LOUIS — St. Louis is hatching a plan to subject all of NorthSide Regeneration's "combined holdings" in a large area to eminent domain, the developer acknowledged Monday, in what would be a stark escalation in the conflict between the government and Paul McKee's firm, which controls large swaths of struggling north St. Louis.
The disclosure came in a letter from a NorthSide lawyer to city aldermen and Neal Richardson, CEO of St. Louis Development Corp., regarding legislation filed by Alderman Rasheen Aldridge that would give the city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority the OK to exercise eminent domain to clear the neighborhoods of vacant lots and dilapidated structures.
It specifically applies to an 821-acre area in the Carr Square, JeffVanderLou and St. Louis Place neighborhoods but excludes the site of the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency campus.
The bill heads to the Board of Aldermen's Housing, Urban Development and Zoning committee Jan. 30.
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