The Schnucks at 10650 Olive Boulevard opened in 1967 and covers 36,500 square feet. Its replacement, now going up on the former Bayer West campus next door, will be about 68,000 square feet. That makes it nearly twice the size of the store it replaces, on a 96-acre site that held corporate offices for decades.
The redevelopment is called Olia Village, and it is being built in phases. The grocery store comes first, and every other piece of the plan is lined up behind it. So the first change residents will notice from the old Monsanto and Bayer property is a bigger version of an errand they already run.
A 1967 store, nearly doubled
Schnucks announced the replacement store in an August 7, 2025 release. It broke ground on June 23, 2026. Russell is the construction partner. By the start of September, some of the exterior structural walls were standing, and the city had issued the core-and-shell building permit.
| Current Schnucks | New Olia Village Schnucks | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | 10650 Olive Blvd. | Lot 1, Olia Village, on Olive Blvd. |
| Opened or expected | 1967 | Around Thanksgiving 2027 per the city's FY2027 budget; October 2027 per the St. Louis Business Journal |
| Size | 36,500 sq. ft. | About 68,000 sq. ft. |
| Builder | Russell |
Creve Coeur's FY2027 budget puts the opening around Thanksgiving 2027, according to Construction Forum's September 1 project report. A November 3 preview from the St. Louis Business Journal says October 2027. Either way, the holiday season now starting is the last one before the move, and the store has roughly a year of construction ahead of it. Schnucks has said its team members at the existing store will transfer once the new one is finished.
Lot 1 is the whole first phase
The developers, Jack Matthews Development and Fireside Financial, started at the grocery store for a reason. The first commercial phase is Lot 1, a 7.4-acre parcel, and everything on it is built to serve the store. Lot 1 has three parts:
- The Schnucks building of about 68,000 square feet
- An adjacent retail building with two tenant spaces
- Shared parking, with a structured deck and surface lots
As of September, the city was reviewing permit applications for the parking deck and the retail building, and permits were expected soon. The Business Journal's November preview puts the first phase at 134,300 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space. The whole site is planned for about 400,000 square feet of commercial development. At that scale, the first phase is about a third of the commercial plan.
The rest of the work you can see from Olive is groundwork for the later phases. The city reports site clearing, demolition, excavation, storm and sanitary sewer installation, and retaining-wall construction underway across the former campus. The September construction update on Olia Village's own site describes the same mix of grocery construction and utility work going on around it.
The townhomes are second, and they have their own approvals
The first housing on the site is The Vale at Olia Village, a Fischer Homes community of 67 attached single-family townhomes on about 11 acres. It moves through the city on its own track, separate from the grocery store.
Creve Coeur adopted the Lot 16 approval for The Vale on February 9, 2026. It approved the 67 townhomes and a 67-lot preliminary subdivision plat, and it required a separate final plat before building permits can be issued. The bill approving that final plat, Bill No. 6226, has been listed on a City Council agenda for first reading.
The Vale is the first part of a larger housing plan. City planning documents call for about 135 townhomes across Olia Village, so The Vale accounts for about half. The original plan also proposed reusing some existing Bayer buildings for offices and homes.
The Main Street is still a plan
Many residents first heard of Olia Village through its Main Street. The City Council approved the development on October 23, 2023. The city's notice from that month describes the Main Street as shops and commercial space on the ground floor with apartments above. It lists the proposed uses for the whole site as restaurants, hotels, apartments, office and research space, and townhomes.
The same notice calls for sidewalks and a trail connecting the parts of the development, plus shared spaces that include detention ponds and a park. Olia's first look at its public spaces presents the parks, plazas and walking routes as a vision. Park names, amenities and trail routes are still to be decided.
Gray Design Group is handling master planning and architecture for the full development. The site, long part of the Monsanto and later Bayer campus, is also part of the 39 North agtech innovation district. The plan is meant to read as a walkable district with a Main Street, which is a different setup from a standard suburban shopping center. For now, the Schnucks walls are the part of that plan that is actually standing.
The other part of the campus is waiting on a traffic study
Olia Village covers the west campus. A separate proposal for the southeast portion of the Bayer campus is moving through the city on its own schedule, with its own questions to answer.
Developer Larry Chapman's plan, reported by KSDK, includes 63 single-family homes, apartments, senior living, and retail and commercial space. KSDK says Bayer would keep about 64 acres of the 151-acre campus. The St. Louis Business Journal reported in September that the plan also keeps some of the existing research facilities.
Here is where it stood after the commission's September 22 meeting, as summarized by OpenMissouri's Creve Coeur tracker:
- Application 26-026 appears on a Planning and Zoning agenda as a preliminary review of a site concept plan for part of the Bayer East campus.
- September 8 and September 22, 2026: the commission discussed the proposal at both meetings.
- Traffic study: the developer's study with MoDOT covers the Warson Road corridor down to Highway 40. The developer is reimbursing the city for the cost.
- Neighboring city: the City of Ladue has asked to meet about the proposal, raising traffic, stormwater and green space among its concerns.
- Vote: the commission said it would not vote until the traffic study was complete.
The traffic study covers the stretch from Warson Road down to Highway 40, so the questions about this proposal reach past Creve Coeur's border into Ladue.
Reading the site on a drive down Olive
This November, the old campus holds several projects at different stages. A grocery store is under construction with its walls going up and a target opening in fall 2027. Next to it, utility work, sewer lines and retaining walls are being built for the phases that come after. A 67-townhome community has preliminary approval and is waiting on its final plat. A Main Street and park are approved in concept, with the details still being designed. Across the campus, a separate proposal was last discussed by Planning and Zoning in September, with its vote tied to the traffic study.
The 1967 Schnucks at 10650 Olive will stay part of the daily route until the new store is finished, because its staff move over when the new store opens.
If you own a home near the Olive corridor and want to talk through what Olia Village and the Bayer East proposal could mean for your street, Jason D Cooper is glad to go over the project timelines and recent sales near the campus with you. Schedule a personalized consultation, and we can follow each phase together as it moves through Creve Coeur's approvals.
