Dan Pistor

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[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Streetlights along Washington and surrounding streets are all out between 6th and 7th. Can you please address? Thanks. @stlcsb

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Do we really need another gas station?

[Shoshana Stahl @shoshana_stahl]

Lindenwood Park residents, along with other south St. Louis City neighborhood groups, raised concerns to First Alert 4 about a proposed gas station in the neighborhood. More here: https://t.co/TQRRWN3jKD

[Chris Stritzel @chris_stritzel]

Be part of the future of Laclede's Landing. Imagine the possibilities.

Email my guy for more information on spaces in the shadow of the Gateway Arch - [email protected]

[Chris Stritzel @chris_stritzel]

Good Thursday morning to everyone, including the haters and losers who continue to write off my hometown of the City of St. Louis, even though local groups, both for- and non-profit and big and small, continue to pump good money into neighborhoods across the City with the goal of slowly making it better (and its actually slowly working).

AND QUITE LITERALLY JUST RECENTLY, the State of Missouri pushed forward enhanced incentives that'll help the redevelopment of office buildings into residential buildings all over Missouri (a tax credit program), but the beneficiaries of the legislation more or less limit it to St. Louis and Kansas City because of property size that can make projects worthwhile, and of the two, primarily the City of St. Louis. The bill also allows for employer relocation incentives of up to $5000 per employee relocated into an economic development district, and public safety funds for said designated district (which can be up to 10% of a City's land area).

This means that even the haters, who so desperately want the City to die, will be partially incentivizing its own redevelopment. How great! More residents, businesses, and tax revenue will be generated benefiting public safety, infrastructure, parks, zoo-museums district, and schools. You know, the things that make a city, a city and hold the key to success. All the while the haters and losers will continue to kick and scream about how bad the City is despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of those who live in the City love it and want to see it better off.

Maybe instead of foaming at the mouth of the idea that the City completely dies and everyone move to your characterless suburbs, and commenting negatively on every single positive news article, or post, about the City, you can actually be positive for once and celebrate the fact that a road to a better future is being created right now. It's not easy work and the general desire of the "anon" haters on this platform, and elsewhere, is not ground in any reality. There's a reason why they need to hide their faces because I totally understand that they'd be embarrassed otherwise.

Me though? I'm not embarrassed by what I post because I keep it real. I recognize my hometown has tremendous problems, but no problem is worse than the self-hating, defeatist attitude so many supposed "city residents" have about the City itself. You don't see the same amount of people whining about affairs in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo or other hard-hit "Rust Belt" cities that fell from grace. It's pretty much a uniquely St. Louis thing and, in particular, only on social media (how convenient that cesspool ideology lingers in the hellish swamp itself).

Don't be a hater or a loser. Be positive and be a winner. Maybe then you won't be a sulking mess that seeks to drag everyone down into your rabbit hole of darkness.

Bless you all!

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Good thread here. Valid questions.

[McPherson @McPherSTL]

As the anniversary of the May 2025 tornado in St. Louis approaches, city officials are under pressure to spend at least $110 million of Rams settlement money on the impoverished North Side, including $60 mln to repair/rebuild homes.

But what exactly would we be rebuilding? 🧵

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

My Op-Ed on the matter

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Paying people to live downtown is the opposite of what should be happening. We should be making downtown an attractive place where people will pay premium prices to live there.

[St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday]

Editorial: Pay people to live in downtown St. Louis? It's just one idea. Hear us out. https://t.co/cnoKBXLo6C

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Op-Ed

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Read my Op-Ed here: To revitalize downtown, focus on renewed residential growth https://t.co/6RtlPWlTTL

[STL Downtown Neighborhood Association @saintlouisdna]

May Town Hall Guest Speaker and Biz Dash Street Closures - https://t.co/aQaARlvt9F

[Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis @Citizens4STL]

LINK & PHOTO: Opinion��To revitalize downtown, focus on renewed residential growth
https://t.co/BVOLls2N9h #Citizens4STL

@MikeLKehoe @SLMPD @MitchellMcCoy @CFDstlfd @saintlouismayor @saintlouispres @SLDCmo @DevelopStLouis @AlderSheenBean @JamiCMichele @LishaLiberty @shanecohn @VDanielaV @Schweitzer88 @OldenburgSTL @STL4Ward @schubbard10 @boydstuff @GreaterSTLinc @CommerceBank @enterprisecares @Cardinals @horseshoestl @Advantes @UnionStationSTL @HiltonBallpark @AquariumSTL @Stifel @SchnuckMarkets @DowntownStLouis @stlcid @carolinehecker @charliekmox @andybankertv @rlippmann @solomonreports @DavidAmelottiTV @MarkMaxwellTV @ChrisHayesTV @RyanWKrull @kevinmcdermott

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Op-Ed

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Read my Op-Ed here: To revitalize downtown, focus on renewed residential growth https://t.co/6RtlPWlTTL

[Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis @Citizens4STL]

LINK & PHOTO: Opinion—Downtown’s comeback hinges on safer & better-managed nights
https://t.co/j8HJ1BIatO #Citizens4STL

@Mike@MikeLKehoe @SLMPD @MitchellMcCoy @CFDstlfd @saintlouismayor @saintlouispres @SLDCmo @DevelopStLouis @AlderSheenBean @JamiCMichele @LishaLiberty @shanecohn @VDanielaV @Schweitzer88 @OldenburgSTL @STL4Ward @schubbard10 @boydstuff @GreaterSTLinc @CommerceBank @enterprisecares @Cardinals @horseshoestl @Advantes @UnionStationSTL @HiltonBallpark @AquariumSTL @Stifel @SchnuckMarkets @DowntownStLouis @stlcid @carolinehecker @charliekmox @andybankertv @rlippmann @solomonreports @DavidAmelottiTV @MarkMaxwellTV @ChrisHayesTV @RyanWKrull

[HixxInSoulard @HixxinSoulard]

@aaron_renn I like to compare/contrast STL & KC. STL is ~1/3 bigger in pop & econ. Yet, STL folks are mostly deliriously *pessimistic* about STL, while KC folks are mostly deliriously *optimistic* about KC. Neither are as good/bad as locals think. yet, vibes matter. enormously.

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

“If there was one story that was told to us more than any other, it was how local St. Louisans are the biggest detractors of St. Louis,”

[One Rail Coalition @OneRailUSA]

The Chicago to St. Louis corridor could someday become the Midwestern backbone of a national high-speed rail network

https://t.co/6WHEZZGr79

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

You get what you vote for

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani.

Now they’re suing Mamdani because he’s planning to relocate Bellevue homeless shelter to the East Village.

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

Absolutely no surprises here

[PD Crime Beat @STLCrimeBeat]

Former St. Louis nightclub owner, political candidate in pandemic fraud scheme, feds say https://t.co/fWVwQMKvYR

[Dan Pistor @DanSTL77]

@DupskeRay @Citizens4STL So you’re ok with people that drink and drive?