Before the Power & Light District became the hub of entertainment and economic activity that it is today, the area was blocks of unkempt parking lots and empty storefronts. The district’s overhaul was in part financed through a piece of 2003 legislation called the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act, MODESA for short. The program expired and stopped taking new applications in 2013, but construction on projects with prior authorization, like …
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