Sunset Hills Gives Developer Another Extension to Complete Shopping Center
Date Posted: January 14, 2019
Posted In: Projects,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Plans for a strip shopping center that has taken more than two years to get off the ground have gotten another extension.
Developer Steve Saladin appeared before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night to request additional time to secure financing for the planned strip mall at 3751 South Lindbergh Boulevard, next to Mellow Mushroom. He said the loss of an urgent care center as a tenant created a hardship with his bank.
A conditional use permit was approved for the strip mall in December 2016. At that time, residents of the adjacent Sunset Chase and Maret Drive neighborhood were opposed to the Jimmy John’s restaurant with drive-thru that is part of the plan.
Site work was completed and construction of the new center began, including the pouring of concrete foundations and the erection of a portion of the steel structure for one of the buildings, but construction stopped in 2017, City Administrator Eric Sterman said in a memo to the aldermen. An amended permit was approved last March, but there has been no construction since.