A Mayor Runs Through It

With the determination of a Missouri mule, Mayor Mike Swoboda drags a $40 million development into the heart of Kirkwood

Comments (0) By Eddie Silva Wednesday, Feb 13 2002
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Outside, the night is cool. Everyone has gone home. Kirkwood pulls its sidewalks in early on a weeknight. The empty parking lot is in shadow. A few acres of asphalt isn't much on a dark night. Right now it's like one of those obscure fields where a battle was fought years ago, signifying what? Progress? Disaster? The place where the character of Kirkwood changed forever?

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MLP project manager Chris Ho on the Station Plaza site. When he employs a phrase such as "new urbanism," some Kirkwoodians look at him as if he were selling shares in Enron.
Jennifer Silverberg
MLP project manager Chris Ho on the Station Plaza site. When he employs a phrase such as "new urbanism," some Kirkwoodians look at him as if he were selling shares in Enron.

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