Maplewood to Get Transit-Friendly Apartment Project
Date Posted: November 29, 2015
Posted In: News,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Residents of the soon-to-be-built Sunnen Station apartments in Maplewood will be able to leave their cars at home if they work in Clayton or downtown St. Louis.
Same situation if they want to shop at the Galleria in Richmond Heights, visit the Arch or attend a sports event downtown.
Sunnen Station apartments just off South Hanley Road and next to the Sunnen MetroLink stop will exemplify what urban planners and transportation officials call transit-oriented development, or TOD.
TOD’s goal is to get people out of their cars and onto their feet, bicycles and nearby public transit. Results include reduced traffic congestion and more walkable neighborhoods. Successful TODs cluster mixed-use developments near transit hubs.
The Maplewood project by Cozad Commercial Real Estate will have one of those traits: a mid-rise apartment building steps from MetroLink. Planned is a four-story building of 174 apartments. About two-thirds of the units will have one bedroom with the remainder two bedrooms, said G.T. Cozad III, the developer’s president.