A hotel, restaurants and retail space are planned for an intersection in Richmond Heights, according to a source who wishes to remain anonymous.
A hotel, two undetermined restaurants and 16,000 square feet of retail space are set to be developed — though nothing is signed yet — on the southeast corner of S. Hanley Road and Interstate 64 / highway 40 according to the source. Correction: a specific hotel was previously named, but since it hasn’t been signed, that name has been removed from this article.
Also, the Menards on S. Hanley, with a planned March 1 opening date, will have two outbuildings with a total of 12 bays for additional retail. Pie Five Pizza and Noodles & Company have already been reported to have plans for the location. Additionally, Wingstop, Penn Station and Andy’s Frozen Custard are also set to open locations there according to the source.
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Also, in Clayton, the northeast corner of Hanley and Clayton roads is planned to be a multi-use development with a grocery anchor, retail, and multi-family residential.
Notice in the rendering they show zero cars on the roads. Are they planning to build tunnels under the area too?
In Brentwood at the Drury Inn they have almost the same amout of parking in a garage below ground as you can see on the parking lot. I do not know if this is the case here but it is possible. This a excellent use of this piece of land and I am surprised this has not been developed much sooner. The location at Hanley and 64/40 is perfect for a hotel. I cannot see why anyone would be aganinst this. Traffic will be impacted just slightly, more if two resturants are built, not from the hotel and not dramically.
Why are people surprised and/or angry that the corner of a busy major street and a interstate highway in a inner ring suburban area is being developed? Only in St. Louis would this area be sitting empty. In Chicago, Nashville, Kansas City or Indianapolis this would have already been built on years ago.
What do you people want here? A park?
I was hoping for a casino or a strip club.
A casino would bring in the wrong clientele, I vote for the strip club, perfect fit for a strip mall.
A park would be great, actually. RH is sorely lacking in those.
Residents: ATTEND IN FORCE, all planning and board meetings related to development. Come prepared with thoughtful questions and concerns.
The S. Hanley and 64/40 development looks super dense. Development here is needed–not over-development that tries to SQUEEZE too much from the area. To avoid worse traffic jams in the area, planners and road engineers should be required to prove and demonstrate up front that traffic in and around any development will flow well.
Also, let’s preserve our sanity and prevent another jammed lot as in Brentwood where Target and Trader Joe’s, are: very high-traffic, (too many stores for the parking), very narrow parking spaces, and very narrow roads and lanes that make turning difficult.
Why are people surprised to see this development happening? It’s land , it’s central, it’s valuable and marketable. I bought here 27 years ago because I knew it would happen.
People act as if time and progress are just going to stop in its tracks.
I’m looking forward to the changes!
It’s not development that’s bad. It’s that the area already has terrible traffic and has traffic jams at 2:30 in the afternoon. The area is already at capacity, and the cities (especially Richmond Heights) are doing their damndest to “redevelop” that entire area into a mega shopping complex, displacing taxpaying residents with TIF-development to shift the burden of financing city services. At least a hotel doesn’t generate a ton of traffic. But more retail, a Hooters and Olive Garden or whatever terrible chains they want to put there will probably generate quite a bit more traffic…
I take it back… Richmond Heights IS the new St. Ann! People in Ballwin, Manchester and Maryland Heights get ready for the influx of folks fleeing to get away from all this junk. Holy heart attack Batman!
You ever been to ballwin?
This is what you get when you allow suburban box stores and strip malls to open. You have a light rail station right there but no one wants to use it because the entire area is designed for cars not pedestrians. I commute Hanley ever day and see a ton of JWalkers. The Hanley corridor is the new Chesterfield Valley.
I didn’t move to Richmond Heights for the traffic. I moved here to be close to all the great things in St. Louis. I like being able to get to Lowes and Walmart, but also drive to Clayton or even the city to eat sometimes. But this is just crazy. Why does no one seam to care about traffic around here?
For the love of god… “I moved here to be close to all these great things! How dare anybody else come here!” You EVEN drive to the city to eat sometimes!?!? Wowzers!
When is Richmond Heights going to listen to residents and consider the traffic concerns in our community.
How dare anybody build something! Lots should be left empty and developers shouldn’t be allowed to build anything! Forget the tax revenue!
I didn’t say not to build, I said to consider traffic concerns. I believe in development but without traffic studies and a strategy on how to handle business as well as residents suffer.
What tax revenue? Won’t this be TIF as well?
Tif districts affect the possible increase in real estate tax but they positively generate sales tax for the city. Many TIFS are paid back early, just ask chesterfield since they are the leading tax generator in the county.
Development is a good thing and this area has a good mix.
People in the city bitch about apartments, condos, stores, roads, gas stations, too much development, too little development, etc. The only reason anyone hears it is because each city has such a small population.
I think this is more of a result of government fragmentation. You have 3 cities all fighting for sales tax dollars all along the same stretch.
1000x this.
Each one wants its hardware stores. Each one wants its big box stores. Each one wants its hotel. And each one giving up taxes to “win” over their neighbor. Pretty sick.
Very true. This is why St. Louis is a mess. Brentwood, Richmond Heights and Maplewood shouldn’t be fighting each other for tax dollars as well as duplicating services.
No suburb should exist in St. Louis County smaller than 40,000.
Two thumbs up for that comment. I would love for smaller munis to be proactive, swallow their pride and begin to consolidate. Maplewood Richmond Heights should lead the way and stop competing with each other for the same thing. Tear down a neighborhood to put up a third hardware store? It’s hard to imagine a scenario where Lowes survives this, so of course Maplewood will be stuck with gaping hole. The breastaurant patrons will have a fine view of it, though. Thanks neighbor!
I will say this: the cage matches to determine who gets to stay on as the full-time city officials would be quite unpleasant. As for all those part-time mayors/councilmembers, it’s called elections.
Why can’t these developers get some local places to open up instead of the same chain restaurants we already have? Noodles & Co especially is terrible.
Local places can’t afford the rent and sign the length of contracts that strip mall developers want.
Here here! Noodles and company is just God awful. Who likes that crap?
People that can’t boil water to make noodles perhaps.
I’m surprised that piece of land sat vacant for as long as it did. Hopefully they take another look at the insanity of the Hanley/40/Dale/Eager interchange as part of this.
Restaurants and hotels really hate roads with high traffic counts…..
Oh nice. A couple restaurants and a Marriott should help with the constant traffic issues in the area!
I understand north city is looking for more residents and has less traffic.