What started with a bang ended with an expensive whimper.

Former vendors of the now-closed Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital are seeking millions of dollars for services provided during the emergency clinic’s brief operation.

In 2020, developer Paul McKee of NorthSide Regeneration announced he had secured financing for a $20 million urgent care facility to be built on the former Pruitt-Igoe public housing site, across from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters, then under construction.

At the time, McKee was pursuing more than $6 million in tax subsidies and had secured financing from the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council, which had financed other NorthSide projects. The city had already approved a massive tax increment financing district in 2009 to

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