ST. LOUIS 鈥 Multiple large employers are considering moving their offices out of the downtown business district, city officials said this week, after more than a year of nighttime violence and gunfire that has struck buildings, broken windows and injured and killed people.
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An interior light illuminates a shattered window on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, at Peabody Plaza located at 701 Market Street. An investigation was underway to determine if the damage was caused by gunfire over the Labor Day weekend. Several windows were broken. (Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com)
A view of a broken window on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, at Peabody Plaza located at 701 Market Street. An investigation was underway to determine if the damage was caused by gunfire over the Labor Day weekend. Several windows were broken. (Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com)
A worker cleans up glass debris from a broken window on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, at Peabody Plaza located at 701 Market Street. An investigation was underway to determine if the damage was caused by gunfire over the Labor Day weekend. Several windows were broken. (Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com)
Glass debris lays scatters on the stairs from a shattered window on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, at Peabody Plaza located at 701 Market Street. An investigation was underway to determine if the damage was caused by gunfire over the Labor Day weekend. Several windows were broken. (Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com)
Grech inherits big questions about how to handle challenging economic trends facing the coal company.
Sales of coal fell more than 16% compared to the period a year prior. Revenue fell 34%.
The owner of Peabody Plaza had told the city last year that the coal company was threatening to leave amid a spate of gunfire that broke sever…
One victim, a 38-year-old man, told police he saw a woman and another man in a heated argument. He tried to intervene, and the man pulled a gun.
The move undercuts boosters' efforts to change the narrative that downtown is improving and hasn't been abandoned by the business community.
