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News Nearby: Developer Slams Olivette, Calls City 'Anti-Progress'
A Creve Coeur-based developer says he's pulled out of plans to build a gas station and restaurant on Olive at I-170. U City and Olivette are looking to jointly redevelop the I-170/Olive corridor.
Steve Noles says he knows something about dealing with difficult cities on development projects. Noles, the owner of Noles Properties, a Creve Coeur-based firm, has developed shopping centers like the Shoppes at Questover (think La Salsa), Park West Square (home of the new Rothman Mattress outlet), and had a hand in the Walgreens which opened at Olive and Graeser in the spring of 2011. But within the last few months, he's decided he's had enough with the city of Olivette. Noles purchased a parcel of land at the intersection of Olive Boulevard and Interstate 170 from the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), which together with another parcel there, he and Robert Elkan, a developer with the Westmore Group Realty Group, wanted to …
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Helen M
7:25 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
The article sad that was the very kind of a development a mixed use with a Hampton hotel .. have you ever tried to deal with planning in U City or even any of the inspectors. They are poster children for dysfunctional. Even your summary shows how unrealistic those items are. fitness , the U City fitness rec center is what a mile away; what college would need to build a branch, UMSL itself is not … more ›