St. Louis Development Corporations new transparency efforts [Video]

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) released a transparency portal to reveal more information about their troubled North City Grant program.

The portal contains hundreds of PDFs of applications from businesses and organizations attempting to obtain some of the millions in grant money available. The portal is a Google Drive, with hundreds of application PDFs and a Google Sheet, showing which organizations were conditionally awarded what grants and for how much money.

The portal aims to provide information about the North City Grant program, which has come under fire for potentially awarding money to businesses that either do not exist or potentially used fake addresses.

SLDC CEO Neal Richardson says much of the confusion is in regards to what they meant by conditional award.

“We could have more clearly defined what a conditional award is versus a final funding award to a business and then the compliance component that …