Controversial Schnucks Project Wipes Out Trees

As work progresses at the site of a smaller Schnucks Market under construction at Clarkson and Kehrs Mills roads, the trees are now all uprooted.

Photos taken a month apart show the transformation of the site.

The site is in the northwest corner of the city of Ballwin, at the Chesterfield border.

Residents initially protested the prospect of additional traffic, noise, and diminished property values.

The 41,000-square-foot project was approved June 2009 by Ballwin city officials then challenged in court by neighbors.

The zoning change was allowed to stand in a decision late December by St. Louis County Circuit Court.

The intersection includes PNC bank across Clarkson Road, Marquette High School diagonally across, and otherwise residential.

The project would include additional turn lanes and pedestrian crosswalk signs.