Suit challenges downtown tax district's renewal
A lawsuit filed Friday challenges the renewal process for downtown St. Louis' taxing district, which collects millions of dollars a year for secondary safety and beautification services.
Leaders of the entity, called the Downtown St. Louis Community Improvement District, said Oct. 21 that they had filed a petition to renew for 20 years, after being set to expire Dec. 31.
Efforts to renew it, which included gathering signatures from a certain number of property owners, began in 2019, though it…