Planting seeds of commerce
By Eric Heisler
Of the Post-Dispatch
12/19/2004
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The Lakeside Shoppes at WingHaven is among many upscale stores that are part of the development explosion, taking place along Highway 40 in St. Charles County.
By the end of 2005, three shopping centers will rise out of what's now piles of dirt along Highway 40. Together, they will offer about 1.3 million square feet of retail, roughly the same amount of floor space as a major enclosed shopping mall like West County Center.
The largest of the three will bring Wal-Mart and an unnamed home improvement store to Lake Saint Louis. The two rival cinemas will rise in the other two strips, in Dardenne Prairie and O'Fallon. Dardenne Crossroads will feature a Target store.
And along with the theaters, the competition should be fierce among grocers, too. Schnuck Markets Inc. has a head start, as it recently opened in Lake Saint Louis. But it soon will contend with the Supercenter and a Shop'n Save, which will join the Target center.
This frenzy of retail building comes as a contrast to the type of development that Highway 40 in St. Charles County has become known for over the last decade: offices for coveted employers like CitiMortgage and MasterCard.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Planting seeds of commerce
By Eric Heisler
Of the Post-Dispatch
12/19/2004
The Lakeside Shoppes at WingHaven is among many upscale stores that are part of the development explosion, taking place along Highway 40 in St. Charles County.
By the end of 2005, three shopping centers will rise out of what's now piles of dirt along Highway 40. Together, they will offer about 1.3 million square feet of retail, roughly the same amount of floor space as a major enclosed shopping mall like West County Center.
The largest of the three will bring Wal-Mart and an unnamed home improvement store to Lake Saint Louis. The two rival cinemas will rise in the other two strips, in Dardenne Prairie and O'Fallon. Dardenne Crossroads will feature a Target store.
And along with the theaters, the competition should be fierce among grocers, too. Schnuck Markets Inc. has a head start, as it recently opened in Lake Saint Louis. But it soon will contend with the Supercenter and a Shop'n Save, which will join the Target center.
This frenzy of retail building comes as a contrast to the type of development that Highway 40 in St. Charles County has become known for over the last decade: offices for coveted employers like CitiMortgage and MasterCard.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Planting seeds of commerce
