Business Owner Seeks Approval to Build Banquet Center on South Main Street
The city's Landmarks Board has already given approval to demolish an addition to an old stone mill on the property.
An addition to a 150-year-old stone mill on South Main Street is expected to be demolished soon and a new banquet center built in its place, pending approval from the St. Charles City Council. Sheri Steffans, owner of the Heart of St. Charles, is hoping to build the Old Stone Chapel and Banquet Center at 1106 South Main Street, which is currently the site of the mill. Steffans has been working toward building the banquet center for the past year despite opposition from some South Main Street business owners who raised concerns that a banquet center would lead to more problems with late-night revelry downtown. Banquet centers were not a permitted use in the area until the city council in March changed the zoning codes to allow them in the …
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Dino McDonnell
11:08 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sadly this what South Main Street business owners do, for the time I have been in St. Charles they have stopped any and all development on South Main from Trails Head to the casino! The issue is not late night revelry but competition. If one was to do a study of all the LLC property owners on South Main it would read like a who’s who in St. Charles to include ex-mayors and council persons. I … more ›