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CREVE COEUR

A planned community of quality residential homes, open spaces and thriving downtown businesses.

When the City of Creve Coeur incorporated in 1949, it opted to become a Point of Sales Tax city rather than “pooling” its sales tax with more than 90 municipalities across St. Louis County. Over the next 60 years it was not difficult for the city to attract high-class, quality commercial and retail development while retaining a small town atmosphere that residents enjoyed.

While the concentrated downtown district along Olive Boulevard is home to corporate headquarters, including the Monsanto Company and Smurfit Stone, city residents enjoy a quality of life unsurpassed anywhere in the state. This standard is characterized by sprawling homes and villas set in beautiful landscaped gardens with many homes backing to protected green space, parklands or the municipal golf course.“Location, location, location” is not enough in today’s competitive world and Creve Coeur recognized that quality jobs, healthcare, education and a safe community are just as important when attracting and retaining commercial development, residents and a highly skilled and professional workforce.

Education in Creve Coeur offers exceptional choices in private, parochial and public schools. The Creve Coeur area has the highest concentration of college preparatory high schools in the state including Chaminade, Whitfield, DeSmet, Priory, Westminster, Christian Brothers College, Academy of the Visitation and Villa Duchesne, as well as the AAA Parkway and Ladue School Districts.

Healthcare in the Creve Coeur and Olivette area is second to none with two major medical centers: St. John’s Mercy Medical Center and Missouri Baptist Medical Center; together with Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. In addition, medical services can be found in several hundred surgery, diagnostic and imaging centers, physicians’ offices and related laboratories.

Creve Coeur residents provide an exceptional quality workforce for the city’s business offices and corporate headquarters, medical facilities and educational institutions. Entrepreneurs specializing in personal and professional services also call Creve Coeur home, enjoying the lucrative business that abounds in the community.

However, the secret of Creve Coeur’s continued success may well be its commitment to providing a high quality of life for its residents, together with a business environment that mirrors those same standards. With more city parks than any other municipality in West St. Louis County, Creve Coeur also has its own nine-hole golf course, and an indoor year-round ice-skating arena. Seven parks encompass approximately 100 acres, including the newest park, Millennium Park, which was recently renovated to include an interactive splash pad.

Creve Coeur residents receive the finest municipal services including police, public works, building, planning; and parks and recreation. The city provides an array of excellent services including rear-yard refuse pick-up, residential leaf vacuuming and limb pick-up, curbside recycling and a community center. The half-cent capital improvement sales tax passed in 1997 generates funds to accomplish projects in the areas of storm water control, park development, street and sidewalk improvements and beautification projects.

The goal of the Creve Coeur Police Department is to provide the highest quality of life for the citizens by maintaining a safe and peaceful community. Widely recognized for its outstanding services and responsiveness, the department also offers special services including vacation checks while you’re out of town and car seat loans for visiting children. With a strong participation in National Night Out, each year hundreds of residents gather in their neighborhoods for block parties with caravans of police officers, firefighters, city officials, McGruff the crime dog and representatives from the Creve Coeur Joint Crime Prevention Partnership—St. John’s Mercy Medical Center and Monsanto—parading through the city visiting each cookout.Creve Coeur is a prestigious business address. Creve Coeur houses world-class research, technological and medical facilities. Some of the public owned companies include Monsanto, Pulaski Financial Corporation, Arch Coal, Smurfit-Stone and Reuters. Privately owned companies include Weber Chevrolet, Drury Inn, Inc., Computer Sales International, Lou Fusz Automotive Inc., TSI Holding Company, HBE Corporation, Scott Properties & Affiliates, and Alter Trading. Creve Coeur is home to the Danforth Plant Science Center and Nidus Center.

Creve Coeur has developed into a major technology corridor, attracting high-tech companies such as Microsoft, SAP, Compaq and Novell. These companies, combined with over 1,000 commercial retailers and numerous office parks, create a daytime population of 40,000.

Businesses also receive unique services. Creve Coeur publishes a biannual newsletter dedicated to fostering communication and collaboration between the city and businesses. The Economic Development Commission serves as a liaison to the business community encouraging strong business development.

Olivette: A Community of Planned Progress

Ideally located in the St. Louis Region, Olivette is a 20-minute drive from downtown, 10 minutes from Lambert International Airport and five minutes from the Clayton business district.

Businesses, employees and residents in Olivette enjoy four expansive, clean, well-planned and maintained industrial areas supported with fiber optics and wide drives. These industrial parks are home to some of the region’s largest manufacturers.

Olivette is easily accessible from I-170, I-270, I-70 and I-64/Highway 40. Local residents, neighbors and regional patrons support the busy commercial and retail areas.

Beautiful neighborhoods offer a wide range of prices. Exceptional education services are offered by the Ladue School District — one of the region’s top school districts. The city has a AAA-rated police and fire protection designation with a five-year drop in crime statistics and more paramedics per capita than any other municipality in the region.

The city of Olivette celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2005, marking its decades of progress and prosperity. The future looks promising for this wonderful community.