I wonder if they need a private pool for the swim team?
AFFTON (from the Post Dispatch)
Et tu, Cor Jesu? A deal cut by Cor Jesu Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school on Gravois Road, has some residents feeling betrayed.
Cor Jesu officials announced Tuesday a deal to buy 3.35 acres from the Gravois Co., a holding company of five local developers. Officials said the land, next to the school's athletic fields, was important for expansion plans. The cost of the land was not made public.
But as a part of the deal, school officials withdrew their opposition to the Gravois Co.'s real estate development, slated to be built across from Grant's Farm. The developer is trying to get St. Louis County to rezone 90 acres there to make way for the project, called the Villages at Gravois Creek.
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For the past several months, Cor Jesu has been a significant part of a neighborhood drive to stop the project. The school's reversal has angered many who fought alongside it.
"We definitely feel betrayed," said Diane Forthaus. "We worked with them, and beside them, for the same fight. Suddenly they make a deal and that's it. It just doesn't seem right."
Opponents of the Villages have contended that the 444-unit development would be too dense for the area. They said it would add too many people and cars to already troublesome traffic and flooding problems.
While Cor Jesu never hid its desire to buy some of the land being sold to the developers, officials publicly agreed with residents about problems with density.
On Wednesday, Cor Jesu board member Thom Digman seemed shocked to hear residents were angry.
"We didn't betray anybody," he said. "We just tried to make the situation better."
According to an e-mail sent out Tuesday by the Cor Jesu principal, Sister Sheila O'Neill, the deal means the school would share an entrance with the development. This would allow the school to close its current entrance.
O'Neill went on to say that the developers had agreed to address the school's safety concerns by working with with state officials to get a stoplight at the entrance and work to add additional lanes to Gravois Road, for turning.
The next County Council meeting on the issue is scheduled for May 2. Council members are expected to vote as a committee on the proposal then. If approved, it will move to the full council.
No.127
Et tu, Cor Jesu? A deal cut by Cor Jesu Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school on Gravois Road, has some residents feeling betrayed.
Cor Jesu officials announced Tuesday a deal to buy 3.35 acres from the Gravois Co., a holding company of five local developers. Officials said the land, next to the school's athletic fields, was important for expansion plans. The cost of the land was not made public.
But as a part of the deal, school officials withdrew their opposition to the Gravois Co.'s real estate development, slated to be built across from Grant's Farm. The developer is trying to get St. Louis County to rezone 90 acres there to make way for the project, called the Villages at Gravois Creek.
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For the past several months, Cor Jesu has been a significant part of a neighborhood drive to stop the project. The school's reversal has angered many who fought alongside it.
"We definitely feel betrayed," said Diane Forthaus. "We worked with them, and beside them, for the same fight. Suddenly they make a deal and that's it. It just doesn't seem right."
Opponents of the Villages have contended that the 444-unit development would be too dense for the area. They said it would add too many people and cars to already troublesome traffic and flooding problems.
While Cor Jesu never hid its desire to buy some of the land being sold to the developers, officials publicly agreed with residents about problems with density.
On Wednesday, Cor Jesu board member Thom Digman seemed shocked to hear residents were angry.
"We didn't betray anybody," he said. "We just tried to make the situation better."
According to an e-mail sent out Tuesday by the Cor Jesu principal, Sister Sheila O'Neill, the deal means the school would share an entrance with the development. This would allow the school to close its current entrance.
O'Neill went on to say that the developers had agreed to address the school's safety concerns by working with with state officials to get a stoplight at the entrance and work to add additional lanes to Gravois Road, for turning.
The next County Council meeting on the issue is scheduled for May 2. Council members are expected to vote as a committee on the proposal then. If approved, it will move to the full council.
No.127
posted by Crestwood Independent at 19:28
14 Comments:
What is your point? Is this development part of Crestwood?
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Tom, sure sounds like you have a big fat chip on your shoulder about any sort of private organization...unless of course it is a private organization to which you belong.
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Wow! I went from just being a Mason to hating Catholic's in just one article, and I didn't even write it!
I must advise my wife and kid's, they are all Catholic, and they don't know it yet.
My granddaughter attends Cor Jesu, maybe she can bring me mome some kindness, truth and honesty, just as soon as they are through derserting the folks who helped them.
Hatefull? bigoted? devisive?, well i'll bet if I was singing the prase of the swim club you would think this was the only source of news on the planet. You have a choice, save your blood pressure med's. and don't read it, or jump into the "pool" with the rest of us. The discussion is great, and it's paid for!
And, no I have no "chip on my shoulder" as you have stated, but rather an abiding need to advise the citizens of Crestwood as to what's going on!
The folks here in town can form their own opinions, and do as they please from there. If this blog served no purpose we would have never reached over 10,800 hits in 8 weeks, or an average of 192.85 per day (see Lutheran schools wern't all that bad.) The same people you say? Well no most of us have outside employment that gives us no time to "blog" except after hours, so someone is being entertained here.
My job here as blog master is to keep the chatter going and by golly I have done my job very well, havent I!
Please, let's keep it nice or off the blog goes your post!
Tom Ford
To the 7:25 AM blogger, what would Arch Bishop Burk think of your hatefull diatribe tward your fellow man? Is that what your idea of the church is?
Seems to me now that Easter is over you can return to your hatred of all persons not swim club, or Catholic! Read your own words, now that's a give and take dialog if ever I have seen one!
By the way, until you step up and sign your name, it's Mr. Ford to you!!!
Tom Ford
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I know you read it, it's been posted before!
NO PERSONAL ATTACKS!
Stay on message, or...........
Tom Ford
real mature tom... only show what you want to be shown
Keep it on message, and you will stay on, get personal and your gone, period, like it or not!
Tom Ford
YAWN
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Well, it would appear that several entities will profit from the St. Louis County vote last night, but will South County residents?
Good luck transversing Gravois Rd. after this is completed.
Thank goodness my Grand daughter will not have to go out of her way to get to the athletic fields, her school (Cor Yesu) made sure of that.
As they say, it all depends on whose ox is gored!
Tom Ford
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