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With no historic preservation ordinance in St. Louis County and a wave of developers looking for sites to build, unincorporated South County is losing some historic structures as three separate structures are under threat of being torn down and one is already gone. The oldest house in Oakville, a stone farmhouse off Fine and Telegraph roads known as the Fine-Eiler House, was torn down by its owner earlier this year — a fact that was revealed when the property came up for zoning for a new McBride Homes subdivision.  Two other historic buildings known as the Kassebaum Building or Sessions Bu...

QuikTrip targets location on site of historic building, plans another nearby The company said it is in the "very beginning stages" of redeveloping the site of the historic Session building Credit: SLBJ A rendering of QuikTrip's proposed development on the site of the Kassebaum Building in South County. Author: Jacob Kirn – St. Louis Business Journal Published: 8:17 AM CDT April 9, 2021 Updated: 8:17 AM CDT April 9, 2021 ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Convenience store giant QuikTrip Corp. is targeting a location on the site of a historic buildin...

Two new QuikTrips are being proposed along Lemay Ferry Road in South County, just two miles apart, and the existing Lemay Ferry QT would close. The St. Louis County Planning Commission voted unanimously 7-0 last week to recommend approval of a new QuikTrip gas station at the corner of Lemay Ferry and South Lindbergh Boulevard, across from South County Center mall, at the site of an existing auto repair shop. The large redevelopment will also take out the existing St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store and The Watering Bowl, a daycare for dogs located behind the auto repair shop. A second QuikTrip i...