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Creve Coeur official briefs Olivette City on Bayer campus redevelopment, mixed‑use plans
Summary
Jason Jagie, Creve Coeur’s director of community development, told Olivette City officials that the former Bayer/Monsanto campus is being redeveloped as a 96‑acre mixed‑use project with a main‑street core, limited surface parking, stormwater detention and ongoing planning for additional land sales on the east campus.
Jason Jagie, director of community development for the city of Creve Coeur, briefed Olivette City officials on redevelopment plans for the former Bayer/Monsanto Fair West campus, saying the site is being developed as a roughly 96‑acre mixed‑use project with a “main street component with commercial and retail on the first floor and apartments above.”
The matter matters to Olivette because the Creve Coeur sites border Olivette and involve utilities, stormwater, traffic and housing choices that cross municipal lines. Jagie said Creve Coeur provided “some assistance in terms of public financing” to facilitate the development and that site work now under way includes new utilities and substantial stormwater infrastructure, including wet detention ponds.
Jagie described the centerpiece project as a mixed‑use development with limited surface parking; “most of the parking you’re gonna see there … would be on the street or within parking structures,” he said. He also said the project will include a pocket park or plaza and a grocery store with a junior anchor on the east side of the site. Creve Coeur officials told Olivette that utilities previously routed across the campus had to be disconnected and replaced as part of the redevelopment.
Jagie said Bayer has also put portions of its east‑side campus up for sale. “They have about 155 acres on the east side of Lindbergh. They are selling about 92 acres of that campus and entertaining proposals from developers,” he said, adding Creve Coeur is working with finalists and has launched a planning process to prepare for redevelopment of the east site.
Creve Coeur hired PGAV Planners to assist with an updated plan for the east campus and invited neighboring cities to an open house. Jagie said the open house is scheduled for Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Creve Coeur’s government center, 300 N. New Ballas Rd.
Speakers in the audience asked about reuse of existing office buildings, tree removal and whether any affordable housing would be included. Jagie said Bayer is retaining some office uses on the west side while placing R&D buildings, greenhouses and wooded acreage on the market; he said some office buildings on the west campus are proposed for conversion to residential. On trees, he said developers are required to replace removed trees on a one‑for‑one basis for trees of 6 caliper inches or greater and that redevelopment plans call for heavy replanting even though new trees do not replace old growth.
On housing affordability, Jagie said Creve Coeur’s strategic and comprehensive plans address housing diversity and the city’s consultants have studied affordability options, but he also said developers he has seen so far are marketing higher‑end apartments. Olivette’s mayor told the meeting Olivette is pursuing a separate redevelopment tied to its housing authority that she said will “more than triple the amount of affordable housing that we have in the city of Olivette.”
No formal votes or regulatory decisions were taken at the Olivette meeting; the session was a briefing and Q&A. Jagie and Creve Coeur staff characterized next steps as planning and public engagement around the Bayer east‑site update, continued review of redevelopment proposals, and coordination with neighboring cities on utilities, permitting and community impacts.
