Friday, April 19, 2013
Creve Coeur's Mayor will be a Vice-President of the Chesterfield firm, and will close his Lindbergh Blvd. office.
McBride & Son, a Chesterfield based homebuilder announced Friday that it has reached agreement to acquire the residential architecture firm owned by Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz, Glantz & Associates. Glantz's firm has been McBride's primary architect for 25 years, making the move a logical fit, John F. Eilermann Jr., CEO and Chairman of McBride & Son Companies said in a statement. “Now we can walk over to his desk instead of setting a meeting. This collaborative team will lead to more efficiency and in the end provide the best product for our customers,” he said. Glantz will become a Vice President of Architecture Services under the deal. Of the eight people who work at Glantz & Associates' North Lindbergh Blvd. office, three employees …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Creve Coeur public works crews are getting praise for their work to clear roads over the weekend.
What did you do when the Sunday storm dumped plenty of snow, changing plenty of people's plans? Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz's family dinner plans were wiped out, so he decided o see firsthand how the snow got cleared out, taking a ride with a Public Works crew on snowplow duty. "It was fun," he said after Tuesday night's city council meeting, where he mentioned the outing and applauded the work done by city crews. Public Works Director Jim Heines was out on weekend plow dutiy as well because of employee illnesses. Heines added that Creve Coeur crews did assist MoDOT crews on Lindbergh, Olive Boulevard and Ladue Road early Sunday by putting their plows down in the righthand lane en route to their city routes. "These guys take a lot of …
Monday, March 11, 2013
City officials are trying to avoid the anger that comes when residents are upset about Olive Boulevard during snowstorms.
Last month's winter snowstorm that crippled traffic on main thoroughfares around the St. Louis area and in Creve Coeur could bring about a change in city policy to help Missouri Department of Transportation plowing efforts. City officials praised the work done by city crews to clear city streets under Creve Coeur's jurisdiction, but Mayor Bary Glantz has pointed to residential frustration that main arteries, like Olive Boulevard and Lindbergh Boulevard, were impassable. The streets are state-owned road, meaning it is MoDOT's responsibility to clear them. But Glantz's concern is the residential perception that will hang the blame on Creve Coeur for problems with Olive and not the state. In this most recent storm, the city did respond on …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Creve Coeur City council members are also scheduled to vote Monday on Post II Sports Bar & Grill's proposal for the former Growler's Pub space.
Creve Coeur's City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission will sit down for a joint work session Monday night as the community discussion about a pair of important planning topics picks up steam. The much-discussed need to revisit and potentially update the city's Comprehensive Plan will be one area that comes up. The Plan was first adopted in 2002 and was seen as a 20-years out guide for evaluating how development projects fit into the bigger picture of the city's needs and community desires. The plan was cited as being out of date by Delmar Gardens in the company's recent failed bid to build a residential and assisted living complex on Ladue Road. But even those on the Planning and Zoning Commission who supported the project conceded…
Friday, January 25, 2013
The Olivette City Council voted to end the city's membership in the Creve Coeur-Olivette Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night.
The Creve Coeur-Olivette Chamber of Commerce will continue to go by the same name, despite the fact that Olivette has decided not to continue as a chamber member, the organization's Executive Vice President Nancy Gray confirmed Thursday. Tuesday night, the Olivette City Council voted not to renew the city's membership in the Chamber, citing a dissatisfaction with the organization's leadership and general questions about what the city has gotten out of the arrangement. Gray forwarded the following statement Thursday issued on behalf of the chamber's Board of Directors: The board of directors of the Creve Coeur-Olivette Chamber of Commerce is disappointed in the City of Olivette's decision to not renew its membership. We have 36 member …
Monday, January 7, 2013
The company Monday dropped a proposal to build a senior care facility and residential housing on Ladue Road near Interstate 270 one week before it likely would have been defeated by Creve Coeur City Council members.
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Monday, January 7
Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz issued the following statement upon the news Monday that Delmar Gardens had abandoned a plan to build senior independent, assisted-living and residential housing on Ladue Road near I-270. "As one of the last, relatively large “undeveloped” parcels of ground in the City of Creve Coeur - this piece of property has been subject to many different development proposals over the past few years. While it is every property owner’s right to pursue the highest and best use for their land - it is also the City of Creve Coeur’s obligation to ensure that any development proposal will preserve the integrity of our residential neighborhoods, while balancing and encouraging equally high quality commercial development that …
Friday, December 28, 2012
Mayor Barry Glantz is our choice, but there was competition. Tell us what you think.
Lots of news happened in Creve Coeur in 2012. There were big business openings, political events impacting the state and national stage, jaw dropping allegations in both civil and criminal courts. But when I really sat down and thought about it, it wasn't hard for me to decide that if we're really talking about 2012 in the hyperlocal sense, the choice for Creve Coeur Newsmaker of the Year should be Mayor Barry Glantz. Editor's Note: The following should not be construed as an endorsement. It is merely a set of observations gleaned over the past year. Glantz won a contentious race against Laura Bryant to succeed longtime Mayor Harold Dielmann. The campaign, which by itself took more than a year to play out, featured two people who cared …
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tell us who you think deserves consideration for having had an impact on Creve Coeur in 2012.
We've reached that time of the year where we're in a reflective mood, and we're asking you to help us put 2012 in perspective. It is time to talk about who should be the Creve Coeur Newsmaker of the Year. Ah, but what does that mean? The beauty is, as they say, in the eye of the beholder. You get to help build the team picture, so to speak. Someone who did the most good? Parkway Northeast Middle Schooler Sam Klein could qualify for that. The young man was featured on NBC Nightly News and won a St. Louis Patch contest asking that very question. ALSO: Could it be Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz? He won a Mayor's race that people had been talking about for nearly 2 years as longtime Mayor Harold Dielmann retired following term limits. The city…
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The two day recycling drive, which traditionally focuses on electronics and appliances, was expanded this year.
The eighth annual B'Nai Amoona recycling drive wrapped up earlier this week at the temple's Mason Road parking lot. Done now in cooperation with the city of Creve Coeur and MERS/Goodwill, the 2012 campaign saw 900 dropoffs of goods which would otherwise end up in area landfills. That translates into 40 tons of material hauled away in trailers. The 2012 campaign was expanded to include eneral donations, and not just electronic material as it had been in recent years. The 2011 efforted yielded 1600 dropfoffs. Rain and cooler temperatures didn't combine to help efforts Monday, the second day of the drive. Sharon Summers, Goodwill's Donations Coordinator, said this year's most unusual item was a bubble-gum pink car a toddler could ride around …
Monday, October 22, 2012
The Delmar Gardens proposal for Ladue Road has provided "impetus" to address the blueprint Creve Coeur uses to make zoning calls.
You've heard a lot in recent weeks about the Creve Coeur Comprehensive Plan, a document that according to the city's website outlines how Creve Coeur leaders should approach capital improvements, design standards, development and redevelopment proposals, land use decisions, and traffic management. Most recently, city planners used it as part of the rationale in essentially calling the Delmar Gardens proposal for an assisted/independent living facility and residential housing project on Ladue Road near Interstate 270 a good idea in the wrong place. Representatives for Delmar Gardens note that a lot has changed since the plan was first developed and that the plan hasn't been updated as intended when it was first put in place more than a …
Stephanie R.
11:37 pm on Friday, April 19, 2013
Nice bailout for the mayor. Emotional too for the three workers losing their jobs. more ›