ARNOLD, Mo. — The owners of the Water Tower Place Shopping Center have filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court to stop the city of Arnold from building a new road intended to connect the city’s northern and southern retail districts.
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The lawsuit was filed late Monday night.
The shopping center is on Michigan Avenue off Jeffco Boulevard, and Arnold officials have said a large section of the plaza will need to be acquired to build the road.
City officials recently made public their plans to build a 2-mile, two-lane road that would connect Hwy. 141 and Richardson Road.
The lawsuit says the city of Arnold has acted in secret for the past three years to develop the road plan and acquire property for the project, which the Water Tower owners say is ill-defined and ill-justified. The lawsuit also says Arnold officials have failed to show the need for the road’s construction.
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