It is a beautiful city. We toured during the Obamination years and the place was beautiful but dead.
Glad to hear it has come back.
We were right down town on a Sunday. Stopped in at a diner and it was at least half full. Cars buzzing around. But there were empty buildings. Not sure I want to say many. What was cool is that 10 or more buildings had been converted t apartments.
We were downtown for 2 or 3 hours and then a 2 hour tour of the county. It was explained that physically St. Lois is a small city. If I remember maybe 300,000. Whereas the county is between 2 and 3 million. Yes, the country does support the city.
But there was industry from the river to the west end of the county. And St. Louis is the home of several/many(?) national companies.