An in-person town hall will be held this week at the MetLife campus in South County about a proposed mixed-use development at the 100-acre site that would include two new subdivisions with more than 170 single-family houses, a 210-unit apartment building, nearly 8 acres of commercial development fronting Tesson Ferry Road and public spaces like a plaza and amphitheater.
The land size and scope of the project between Tesson Ferry and Keller roads, called “Tesson Ridge,” makes the mixed-use project one of the largest developments in South County history larger in size even than the roughly 47-acre Crestwood mall site, which is also the subject of a pending mixed-use redevelopment proposal.
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There will not be virtual learning today for Washington Middle School students.
Curbside grab-and-go meals are available for pick-up from either high school from 9-9:30 a.m.
All other schools in the Mehlville School District are open. The water main break is only impacting Washington Middle School.
Voters approved the Mehlville School District’s Proposition S bond issue with more than 80 percent of the vote April 6, the first time Mehlville voters have passed a bond issue since 1992.
South County voters also approved Hancock Place School District’s Proposition R bond issue, which is also a no-tax-rate-increase bond.
Mehlville had been the only school district in St. Louis County without a bond issue to fund facilities. Proposition S, a 12-cent, $35 million bond issue, will use part of the funds left from paying off the lease approved by 2000’s Proposition P for facilities to fund secure vestibule entrances at all 18 of Mehlville’s schools, along with basic maintenance and accessibility at all schools. Proposition S stood for “Safe Schools, Safe Kids.”
After starting the school year mostly virtual, most South County school districts are now back in school in person for four or five days a week.
All students in the Mehlville School District will return to five days of in-person learning in April after an assist from a pharmacy owner alumnus to get the district’s teachers vaccinated. The district is holding two vaccine clinics for all district teachers and staff who want a COVID-19 vaccine, with doses provided by an alumnus, Dr. Tyler Taylor of St. Louis Hills Pharmacy in South City. The second dose will be administered April 18, a day switched to virtual learning for all students to accommodate teachers going to their appointments.