Sprawl & Eminent Domain Alert in St. Louis County
It doesn’t seem to end. Big boxes have saturated the blighted corn fields of St. Peters so now they are moving toward the core – taking people’s homes in the path of “progress.”
Back in November I commented on the new Walmart, Sam’s Club & Lowe’s abomination on Hanley Road. Also in November I shared my viewson the proposed Schnuck’s & Lowe’s at I-55 & Loughborough. The RFT did a story on this a few weeks later. Just a couple weeks later I talked about a proposed Home Depot at Goodfellow and I-70. This is a lot of big box stores for a region that is not greatly expanding its population.
Well, add another to the ever expanding list. This morning I learned of a proposed Walmart at I-55 & Weber road in South St. Louis County. According to Yahoo Maps this is only 1.3 miles from the I-55 & Loughborough Schnuck’s grocery/Lowe’s. Both involve eminent domain – the taking of people’s homes for the greater public good. Of course, greater public good means a developer think the houses are in the way of their generic box stores and massive and barren parking lots. We can’t let people’s homes get in the way of progress can we? Let’s ask the folks over in McRee town shall we???
Oh that is right – we can’t ask the folks in McRee town because their homes have already been razed. How silly of me to forget. After all, I can clearly see the fact McRee town is missing when I drive by on I-44. Some of the destruction is still on-going but they are making quick headway of erasing decades of history. Reminds me of the wreck-less destruction for housing projects in the 1950s. Displace the poor so we can remove from our sight reminders that people are poor. I’d better stop now – this post is supposed to be about big box stores not the systematic displacement of people.
So, just over a mile from one abuse of eminent domain is another abuse of eminent domain. Since they go hand in hand with each other why not have public hearings on both projects on the same day? That way the big wigs from Walmart only have to come into town to threaten and intimidate for a day. No point dragging things out right?
Tuesday January 25th at 9am will be a public information meeting on the I-55 & Weber project. The meeting will be held at Stupp Brothers – the proposed site. At 7pm that same day will be a public information meeting on the I-55 & Loughborough project. That meeting will be held at the Carondelet Athletic Club which is next door to Schnucks.
One of the key phrases you’ll hear now is “county buyout.” That is the new kindler, gentler politically correct phrase for using tax money to take people’s homes through eminent domain. I’m not sure what the new phrase is for when the tax payers also rebuild the highway interchanges at Loughborough & Weber to handle the additional traffic demanded by these regional big box eyesores. Any thoughts?
– Steve
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