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title: Hypocrisy or just confusion
categories:
- culture
content-tags:
- stlouis
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I'm sure his intentions are good, but Jim Shrewsbury believes that the downtown renaissance is no longer a "goofy, crazy idea" because the banks tell him so:

> When the upper-middle class, white business community thinks it's a good idea, you can bet they've looked at every angle of it and it's a good indicator if they're willing to put money there.
> - The Commonspace, May 2003

The last answer is priceless, as well, and I'm not sure what to make of the [Mike "St. Louis is too white" Jones][1] nod after that earlier statement.

   [1]: http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2000/01/31/focus38.html
