Delmar Ferris Wheel Won’t Go Forward
Date Posted: July 6, 2017
Posted In: Projects,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Developers have nixed a proposed 120-foot Ferris wheel for Delmar Boulevard after neighborhood residents largely opposed the idea.
Brandon Sterling, executive director of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, said two months of public input on the project, pitched by developers affiliated with Atlanta’s SkyView Ferris Wheel, was largely negative.
“We live near an entertainment district, but there needs to be a sustainable balance,” Sterling said Wednesday. “We think it’s a fantastic idea. We just don’t think we’re the right neighborhood for it.”
Sterling said council leaders advised in late June representatives of Sangita Capital Partners and Pacific Development that community feedback was not positive, which led developers to pull the proposal. Sterling said concerns ranged from stress on parking and traffic congestion to the size of the wheel and its impact on neighborhood aesthetics.
Todd Schneider of Pacific Development is a co-owner of the Ferris wheel in Atlanta.
Tony Sansone Jr. of Sangita Capital Partners last pitched a Ferris wheel attraction in August, but for downtown at the site of Mike Shannon’s closed restaurant. That proposal appears to be have been tabled after it was opposed by the owners of the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark hotel, Lodging Hospitality Management.