The city of Warrenton will purchase property just east of the post office in an effort to alleviate a parking shortage and be the future site of a visitor’s center. The city has agreed to pay …
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The city of Warrenton will purchase property just east of the post office in an effort to alleviate a parking shortage and be the future site of a visitor’s center. The city has agreed to pay $60,000 for the lot at 505 E. Booneslick, Mayor Greg Costello announced at the June 21 board of aldermen meeting. The city will move forward with razing the single-family home on the property once the purchase is finalized. Officials expect to close on the property within 30 days once an asbestos inspection is completed. Costello indicated the city will likely discuss parking concerns with postal officials in the future and whether space could be rented from the city-owned lot. Costello said negotiations to purchase the property had been ongoing for some time. “Negotiations were a little lengthy, but certainly I think the results were good,” he said. The small parking lot and congestion around the post office has caused concerns for city officials and residents for many years. The post office has only several parking spaces on its lot on the east side of the facility. Customers also park along Main Street to go into the post office and cause safety concerns when vehicles’ doors open as motorists go by. “For those who are familiar with the area, we have what we feel is a very unsafe and inconvenient situation with the post office parking,” Costello said. “It is our intent to have discussions with the post office with ways to relieve that problem. It is also my intent to have the chief of police look at making it a no parking area on both sides of Booneslick in that stretch. Anybody who has lived here for very long, it’s pretty obvious that it’s unsafe to have doors opening and cars swerving around it.” Costello said it’s the city’s intent to build a visitor or welcome center at the property in the future, though no time frame was given. The idea was discussed in 2008 when city officials supported the need for more parking for the post office. “We believe it will be an improvement for the citizens, not just the post office,” Costello said.
