A new "overlay" governmental district to oversee long-term Manchester Road improvements is a new goal for Wildwood, Ballwin and Ellisville city representatives.
With Manchester Road being targeted as part of the St. Louis Great Streets Initiative, this major thoroughfare needs a major transformation that will take years to complete. To be able to work together for an extended period of time, city staffers, council members and board of aldermen of Wildwood, Ellisville and Ballwin municipalities hope to form a "special purpose" taxing district with the sole purpose of executing improvements to the Manchester Road corridor. Wildwood city council members approved a resolution at Monday evening's council meeting to pursue this long-range collaboration with neighboring municipalities. Wildwood City Administrator Dan Dubruiel said Ellisville and Ballwin city officials already had approved their …
Wildwood, Ellisville and Ballwin city representatives, along with West St. Louis County Chamber of Commerce and Missouri Department of Transportation managers are putting ideas into motion for Manchester Road corridor.
There's 40 percent more retail space than the market will support along Manchester Road within a declining economy, former Ellisville mayor Matt Pirrello told approximately 100 luncheon attendees at Wednesday's monthly meeting of the West St. Louis County Chamber of Commerce at The Wildwood Hotel. "There are too many other (shopping and service) alternatives, and we need to improve the access, management and safety of the entire Manchester corridor," he said. The improvement plan was deemed the "Great Streets Initiative." Authorities have worked on the Manchester Road plan since 2009, but a website that reveals detailed schematics and timelines is about to be unveiled, said Pirrello, who nows serves as Ellisville councilmember of Ward 1. …
Ellisville City Council Member Matt Pirrello said the $5 million will be evenly shared among the three cities.
The cities of Wildwood, Ballwin and Ellisville will receive $5 million for road resurfacing under the long-term Great Streets initiative, a long-term plan launched in 2006 meant to reshape the Manchester Road corridor for multiple cities around West St. Louis County. Pirrello said at the council's last meeting that Ellisville and representatives for other participating cities will continue with bi-monthly meetings, the next of which is scheduled for Monday, May 7. Going forward, those meetings likely will alternate between being hosted by the City of Ellisville and the Missouri Department of Transportation. “Because we’re working with MoDOT right now, we’re tring to accommodate their schedule so they can be participating and have all the …
