Alright, the vagaries of building sports stadia, while using at least some public funds to do it, is always a matter of political controversy. That is how it should be. Too many wealthy people already get too fat on the public trough. I get that. What I dislike is the plethora of bullshit arguments that arise along with the more germane financial considerations. The Cupples station warehouses in St. Louis are the perfect example of this. When the Blues were looking for a place to build their new venue to replace the venerable, but decaying and rat infested, Arena, they found a great spot near to the existing Busch Stadium. There was plenty of unused land, the parking and road infrastructure was already in place, and not a single existing business had to be negatively impacted. Perfect, right? Well, hold on there. Turns out there were old warehouses that hadn't been used in at least a decade sitting on the land. These, we suddenly were told, were of considerable architectural signif...
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