Monday, August 27, 2012
A recent St. Louis Public Radio story calls the Chesterfield Valley, a “retail mecca.”
Two new outlets in the Chesterfield Valley have begun calling attention from St. Louis media to the area. Premium Outlets, near Rombach Farm and Prestige Outlets, at the Boones Crossing exit from Highway 40/64, are the subject of a story by St. Louis Public Radio, which explores the history of the Valley since the flood of 1993. Michael Staenberg, CEO of THF Realty, which purchased much of the land in the Valley shortly after the flood, is quoted by St. Louis Public Radio describing how smart of a decision it was for his company to buy the land at the time when the flood brought property values down. “The flood was the best thing that had ever happened to me. I’m sorry it hurt people, but it also brought recognition of what the Valley …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
St. Louis Premium Outlets hosts a ceremony Wednesday, 9am, at the site.
A second proposed outlets mall breaks ground today, Wednesday, in a ceremony at the 60-acre site in Chesterfield Valley, just off I-64 before the Boone Bridge over the Missouri River. St. Louis Premium Outlets is intended to be part of a much larger complex of offices, hotel, restaurants and entertainment, according to developers. Chesterfield Blue Valley LLC owns the collection of land parcels, and partnered with Simon Property Group and Woodmont Outlets for the project. The project is yet to have all the okays necessary to build, but the process is ongoing apparently. City planners okayed a temporary sign for the outlets on Monday. The other outlets mall proposed for Chesterfield Valley is Taubman Prestige Outlets. It broke ground on …
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
One outlet asks for a 5/8-cent sales tax; city okays 1% tax for the other.
Taubman Prestige Outlets of Chesterfield filed a petition March 1 in St. Louis County Circuit Court to set up a Transportation Development District (TDD) for the area of its proposed mall. As a result of that "district" new tax revenue would help pay for projects with roads, parking, and more in that area. Taubman had begun grading 49 acres next to the Hardee's IcePlex on the north side of Highway 40/64 in February. Meanwhile, competing St. Louis Premium Outlets had been asking for a 1 percent Commercial Improvement District sales tax for an outlet mall planned near the Missouri River. There was some opposition to providing a CID sales tax to developers that would raise an estimated $30 million over 20 years. Both a TDD tax and a CID have …
Monday, May 21, 2012
Lawyers intend to address "misleading" claims of other outlet developers at Chesterfield City Hall Monday night.
Developers of one Chesterfield outlet stores mall said Monday that the timeline for work on a second outlet mall by different developers is all wrong, based on claims by the second developer. Attorneys for Taubman Prestige Outlets in Chesterfield Valley will dispute claims by developers of St. Louis Premium Outlets that they are nearly ready to break ground on their mall, a Taubman spokeswoman said. Taubman broke ground on their mall at Boone's Crossing in April after a year or more of securing federal okays, state okays, and city approvals, several Taubman representatives have told Chesterfield Patch over since February. Blue Valley-Simon-Wood developers for St. Louis Premium Outlets has said it could break ground on their outlet mall in …
Friday, May 18, 2012
No stormwater drainage ditches expected to bisect popular farmland.
Despite concerns last month over the potential for open drainage ditches cutting through a popular family-owned pumpkin farm in Chesterfield Valley by outlet stores developers, the seasonal farm stand is now open for business. Rombach Farms maintains its vegetable, fruit and jams stand along Olive Street Road at the far western end of Chesterfield Valley, close to the Boone Bridge crossing over into St. Charles County. See accompanying photo. The family farm, which will turn 100 years old in 2013, backs up to 188 acres owned by developers looking to install sewer, water, roads and landscaping on the property, for a 55-acre outlet stores shopping center along Highway 40/64. City officials said developers for St. Louis Premium Outlets would …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Let business succeed with signs and without tax abatements.
Have Chesterfield decision-makers fallen prey to feeling a need to over-beautify a commercial development and making it harder for the businesses to succeed? I've seen this happen in West County—including instances when a city and a developer together hurt the chances that potential customers will find stores. Problem Cities want lots of landscaping. Trees and bushes are a favorite. Signs listing all the stores in a shopping center are often unwanted since they just clutter up things, say some city councils. Once developers rent the center, they are happy. Often they forget about the trees and bushes they planted to satisfy city councils. Those trees and shrubs continue to do something called grow, and block visibility. In short, that's a …
Cheri Rotello
7:25 am on Monday, August 27, 2012
And what is this going to do to our Big Mall and the valley stores. Are we going to have a row of empty stores where the Valley stores once were. I do not think this has been a very well thought out business venture. I do not think the Mayor and the Board have taken control over this project but have just allowed it to happen. If I were a business in the valley or mall, I would be very upset over… more ›