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Wal-Mart relocation dispute<br />
Local developers sought to use tax credits to entice a Wal-Mart (located<br />
in a shopping center along Bridgeton’s perimeter) to move fully inside<br />
the town’s limits. The plan was abandoned after neighbors in Shelbyville<br />
voiced their outrage over such predatory economic tactics.<br />
W-1W Airfield expansion<br />
Lambert Airport officials launched this billion-dollar plan to develop a<br />
new runway in anticipation of a surge in passenger flights. Currently, the<br />
new W-1W tarmac receives little traffic and the anticipated consequences<br />
of its has displaced hundreds of people west of tarmac’s trajectory.<br />
Lambert Airport: China Hub<br />
Missouri congressmen, in collaboration with the China Hub<br />
Commission, are petitioning for Lambert Airport to be the locus for<br />
international commercial activity in the US. St. Louis’s proximitity to<br />
national transportation networks makes it an opportune location to<br />
facilitate foreign business and process American goods for export.<br />
US agricultural exports<br />
US - China bilateral trade<br />
US agriculture and railroad network<br />
“I think it will be bigger for agriculture at the end of the day than for<br />
anybody else...maybe bio-tech will also be a big benificiary of this.”<br />
-Mike Jones, China Hub Commission Chairman
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