It's crazy how I fully support the suburbanization of Metro East. This development in Chesterfield? YUCK. This development in O'Fallon? YAY.
I think rationally the only urbanization that can happen in Metro East is development of the smaller downtowns through regrowing population. I'll take housing and population growth in Metro East in anyway I can! Progress by going backwards I guess.
^Haha same. I see anything in Alton, O’Fallon, Edwardsville - heck yes! It’s like we need set up our far east sprawl to balance the far west sprawl and then maybe we can fill out the middle.
Metro East densifying is good for the region. This is really just another unfortunate planned mixed use community rather than just filling in, further developing and repopulating long established urban mixed neighborhoods. With all the parking, not sure how much more dense this is than just a normally spaced SFH suburban neighborhood would be But, better than O’Fallon MO, I suppose.
From O’Fallon to shining O’Fallon, as the settlers of St. Louis sang!
It's crazy how I fully support the suburbanization of Metro East. This development in Chesterfield? YUCK. This development in O'Fallon? YAY.
I think rationally the only urbanization that can happen in Metro East is development of the smaller downtowns through regrowing population. I'll take housing and population growth in Metro East in anyway I can! Progress by going backwards I guess.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. The blight of E. StL, Washington Park, Venice, Brooklyn and Cahokia Heights will just continue to grow. First consuming Granite City and Alton before moving on to Belleville and Collinsville in a few decades.
O'fallon, IL gave the go ahead on this project. There's still quite a bit of surface parking, but it sounds more exciting overall than a $400M+ project being considered a few miles west in Swansea, which is linked at the end of the article.
The likes of O'Fallon and Edwardsville are as nice as any of the decent Missouri suburbs IMO. I hate sprawl but all things considered if these areas keep growing it'll help pull the epicenter of the region back east to the river where it should be.
