The Crestwood Board of Aldermen resumed discussion regarding a power of review ordinance on certain Planning and Zoning Commission business March 22. The ordinance provides more specific rules for when the board can call for review of commission decisions. The ordinance gives 48 hours for the city planner to give a report of review eligible.
Editor’s note: This is a developing article. Continue to check back to callnewspapers.com for more. The race for Crestwood’s Ward 4 Aldermen features incumbent Tony Kennedy, who has held the position since 2016, and newcomer Nicholas Ranciglio. Kennedy, 900 Parkshire Court, is senior vice president at Colliers Commercial Real Estate, and has a master’s degree.
The Crestwood mall site has its fourth developer in seven years, but city officials are confident that the latest plan combining proposals from McBride Homes and Dierbergs Market will actually be built, with a TIF Commission convening next week.
McBride and Dierbergs, both companies based in St. Louis, announced Dec. 22 that they have the 47-acre former Crestwood Plaza mall property at Watson and Sappington roads under contract from owner UrbanStreet Group after months of negotiations.
For decades it housed an outdoor mall, then an indoor one. But the mall’s last stores closed in 2013. The site at the center of the city has been vacant ever since, as three other plans to develop the property came and went. One major milestone along the way is that UrbanStreet demolished and leveled all the mall buildings, so the land is now level with Watson Road and easier to redevelop.