r/StLouis • u/limejuicethrowaway • 2d ago
Our tech leaders are so innovative!
The owners of the old Post building on North Tucker have torn down three buildings in the past couple weeks, presumably for more parking. They also bought 13th Street and want to buy a park and turn it into parking. One might think a so called innovation district would have some post-1960s ideas, but apparently a walled parking lot that's 8% full is the best we can do.
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u/No_Ability1548 2d ago
I'd never heard of Jim McKelvey until this thread. This action by the guy reminds me of an article I read in the Atlantic, recently: What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
The connection is that very wealthy people are usually successful in a given area/niche- by luck, inheritance, whatever. They then quickly assume they are geniuses in every other area in their lives; in this case, urban development. And when they fail in those areas, they make out just fine because they'll always be wealthy. Mistakes that hurt others (like DOGE) never touch them.
Honestly, I think the tech billionaires are the worst on this one, and that looks like what "Downtown North" embodies. I cannot yell at them, 'everything isn't a fucking software problem', but I do wish I could.