Luxury senior center wants non-profit status, would cost Kirkwood $1 million

[pstokely]

Source: KMOV.com

(KMOV.com) -- A luxury living center in St. Louis County is trying to get out of paying tax bill, and the county assessor is having a hard time seeing why.
The owner of Aberdeen Heights, Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America, wants to make the luxury retirement center a non-profit facility.
It already has 18 similar non-profit communities across the country.
St. Louis County Assessor Jake Zimmerman says he doesn’t know what’s going on in other states, but in St. Louis County he expects non-profits to be more charitable if they want to be exempt from paying taxes.

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[Selatius]

1. The only way they can get the exemption status is if they buy off or blackmail everybody.

If they were as rich as Wall Street bankers and had that kind of resources, they probably could've done that.

[Sherman A1]

2. But,

It's a luxury senior center therefore they are entitled to pay no taxes.