Pinch “Vision” Plan Moves to Funding Reality

BRANSON MO NEWS:
VOL. 131 | NO. 234 | Wednesday, November 23, 2016

By Bill Dries
Updated 10:45PM

Source: LRKA final public meeting Tuesday, Nov. 22, on the still tentative redevelopment plan for the Pinch came with a call by some property owners and a Shelby County Commissioner for the city to end a moratorium on approving parcel-by-parcel redevelopment plans in the nine-block area. It also included some general ideas about and renderings of Overton Avenue becoming a walkable well-lit and more heavily developed east-west corridor between the campus of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid. Inbetween those two very different discussions, is an insistence by city leaders and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital that there is no specific land use and development plan as well as some skepticism among the landowners about whether that is the case. George Shadroui, chief strategy officer for ALSAC, the fundraising part of St. Jude, said the hospital has a six year plan and board decisions to make beyond that about a $9 billion expansion of the campus including $1 billion in construction. “That plan starts with things that are going to happen on the campus,” he said after the meeting at the Balinese Ballroom. “There are …