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Creve Coeur-Olivette

A Community of Planned Progress

Ideally located in the St. Louis Region, Olivette is 20 minutes 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.
• A strong cooperative relationship with the city.
• Easy access to interstate highways I-170, I-270, I-70 and I-40/64.
• Busy commercial and retail areas supported by loyal residents, neighbors, and regional patrons.
• Beautiful neighborhoods in a wide range of prices.
• Ladue School District, the region’s top school district.
• AAA-rated police and fire protection, 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.

Creve Coeur

A Vibrant Community That Provides It All

Welcome to the City of Creve Coeur. Since our incorporation in 1949, Creve Coeur has developed into a vibrant community providing it all — a great place to live and work.

With our beautiful neighborhoods, Creve Coeur provides the perfect place to live and raise a family. We have a number of the finest private and public schools in the region, as well as a wide array of religious institutions. Creve Coeur has more city parks than any other municipality in west St. Louis County, its own nine-hole golf course, and an indoor ice-skating arena, which was recently renovated. Seven parks encompass approximately one hundred acres, including our newest park, Millennium Park, which recently housed our new lacrosse camp. Our free, outdoor family movie events, Flicks on the Fairway, are held at the Creve Coeur Golf Course during the summer season.

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 stormwater 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 including Monsanto, Reuters, HBE, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, Barnes Jewish West County Hospital, 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 35,000.

Businesses also receive unique services. The city produces a quarterly business 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.

Creve Coeur is the heart of St. Louis County, and we are working aggressively to meet the challenges of the next century. We are striving to retain existing businesses and attract high-tech businesses of the future. We are working to maintain and improve our residential neighborhoods by maintaining and improving our streets, sidewalks, and other infrastructure so that property values remain strong. We are working to retain the fine balance between our residential and commercial and institutional residents so that Creve Coeur remains the viable and attractive community that it is. The future of Creve Coeur is bright.