St. Louis City SC owners do not need or want public money…just the many millions of taxpayer dollars they get every year

In 2017, an ownership group wanted to bring an MLS team to St. Louis. But they also wanted $60 million from taxpayers. It went to a vote and failed, as most residents wanted nothing to do with it. But then the following year, in 2018, St. Louis residents were told that new owners of a future MLS team (a local family connected to Enterprise) were “prepared to pay for a $250 million downtown stadium in…

St. Louis MLS owners required no “direct taxes” in 2019…now they are increasing the sales tax rate to 12.7%

In 2019, St. Louis was riding high with an ownership group buying their way into the Major League Soccer league. The owners had even selected a piece of land for their soccer stadium that many others coveted. This would “serve as the centerpiece of a new real estate development” in downtown St. Louis. Most importantly, the ownership group claimed in interview after interview that the taxpayers would not be funding this entire project…just a bit…