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The developer planning a 298-apartment building on the site of the Chesterfield Mobile Home Park said he wants to minimize disruption to families there, but residents are already organizing opposition to the plan. Mike Lang, who leads Amerwest Development LLC of West Palm Beach , Fla., said he would be “as equitable as possible” should his deal to buy the site from a company controlled by the Behymer family go through. That means a relocation package — though Lang didn’t want to offer details yet — and making sure residents of the roughly 140- lot park wouldn ’t have to move in the middle of the school year. The soonest they would have to move is the summer of 2018, Lang said. Their lot leases are month-to-month. “I’m sensitive to the fact that they’re there,” Lang said in an interview. “I’m not interested in creating huge upheaval .” With the likes of Monsanto, Bunge, Reinsurance Group of America and Pfizer building new employment centers in Chesterfield, Lang made...

The only mobile home park in Chesterfield seems out of place. Since it was built 50 years ago , glass-and- steel corporate headquarters and upscale subdivisions have slowly surrounded it. In a suburb that means big homes , new shopping centers and shiny office campuses to most St. Louisans, it’s a wonder there still is a place to park a trailer. But developers have turned their sights to the Chesterfield Mobile Home Park , where roughly 140 mobile homes offer some of the most affordable housing along the Highway 40 (Interstate 64) corridor. If the developers can rezone the land, residents could be forced to try and move their mobile homes. “This has been sitting here since 1987,” said resident Charlie Oakes , gesturing to the mobile home he lives in with his wife, Lisa Oakes. “We don’t know if it’s moveable or not.” Despite the political pitfalls of buying land out from under mobile home owners , some of whom may struggle to move their trailers, the developers’ int...