Developer Slams City; Calls Olivette '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.
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, which together with another parcel there, he and Robert Elkan, a developer with the Westmore Group Realty Group, wanted to turn into …
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Morton M Bertish
7:14 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012
A quick trip coul bring millions of dollars to Olivete. We need more business to come olivette. We need to work more with developers. The citizens of Olivette cannot afford to pay more for city goverment. Morton Bertish more ›