Readers React to City's Effort to Turn Dorsett Road Into a 'Great Street'
In January, Maryland Heights embarked on a six-month study of ways to improve Dorsett Road with a $500,000 federal grant awarded through the St. Louis Great Streets Initiative.
On Tuesday, Maryland Heights Patch reported on the city's effort to turn Dorsett Road into a "Great Street." In January, Maryland Heights embarked on a six-month study of ways to improve Dorsett Road with a $500,000 federal grant awarded through the St. Louis Great Streets Initiative. The initiative was started in St. Louis by East-West Gateway in 2006 as a way to help local communities think differently about creating interesting, lively streets that serve everyone in the area. - - - - - Read the full story on Maryland Heights' efforts to turn Dorsett Road into a "Great Street" here. - - - - - The city's comrehensive planner, Hilary Perkins, went as far as saying Dorsett Road was "not anyting to write home about in terms of a great …
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Lisa Levin
8:31 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
I agree with so many of the comments above. All my families basic shopping has to be done in every other city but Maryland Heights, it's ridiculous. We have one super crowded grocery store - that I avoid as much as I can. I think it's sad that we don't have any sense of community - we don't have a decent ice cream joint or a donut shop, the coffee shop is all the way over in Westport with no way … more ›