What People are Saying
What People Are Saying
China Hub stirring controversy in St. Louis region.
As a way to encourage foreign investment and international operations, the Midwest-China Hub Commission wants to establish a center at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. To some, the proposed China Hub project could be St. Louis’s salvation, while others think it could be the road to financial ruin. In www.stlbeacon.org, Saku Aura and Jeff Milyo, said, “Missouri is contemplating handing out as much as $360 million in subsidies to create a monument to graft in St Louis. The China Hub project or "Aerotropolis" is being sold as a slam-dunk profitable investment of public money; economic consultants claim the project will generate many more millions of dollars in benefits to Missouri than its cost to the state. But the theoretical models…
