UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — A lawsuit seeks to block new plans to renovate University City's annex and Trinity buildings, arguing they violate a charter provision putting sales or leases of certain buildings up to a vote of the public.
The city council this week passed the renovation plan, reported as costing from $22 million, up to $27 million. The buildings had been condemned in 2016. The annex is to become a police headquarters, with the Trinity building converted into a municipal court operation. ICS Construction Services and Midwest Service Group are working on the project.
The suit, filed Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court by former Mayor Shelley Welsch and former Council Member Stephen Kraft, says that U City voters in 2016 approved a charter amendment stating that certain city property can't be sold, leased or given away without voter approval.
The new deal violates that amendment, the suit claims.
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