ST. LOUIS • Gov. Jay Nixon’s new stadium task force has cobbled together far more land along the north riverfront than publicly known, and is eyeing at least one plot outside the publicized footprint.
The team has established or is close to establishing “site control” of about 70 parcels in the roughly 100-parcel footprint, according to a map created by task force contractors that identifies the status of every plot. Of the 30 remaining parcels, all but two are marked as nearing site control.
Those two, the downtown steakhouse Al’s Restaurant, and an Al’s parking lot, are labeled as “likely eminent domain,” the first tangible sign that the task force is actually considering government-authorized legal action to strip land from unwilling sellers.