Meijer revises plans for O’Fallon property to allay traffic concerns. Here’s how
A revised plan for The Shoppes at Pierce in O’Fallon is moving forward, after new owner Meijer changed the project to add a fuel center and convenience store and remove some buildings to ease traffic concerns.
The City Council’s Community Development Committee will review the project at its next meeting before it advances to the full council for action. The Planning Commission advanced the revised proposal following its Dec. 9 meeting.
Meijer acquired the 6.68-acre site from GBT Realty of Brentwood, Tennessee, this summer.
O’Fallon Community Development Director Greg Anderson said city staff previously informed Meijer that the city would not support any changes that would generate more traffic than had already been approved.
Meijer redesigned the site layout to reflect the proposed changes in compliance with city feedback. The Meijer Express gas station will feature 12 fueling positions and a 3,660-square-foot convenience store.
“With these changes, projected traffic volumes decreased, compared to the original plan,” Anderson said, noting that traffic counts on Pierce Boulevard between the Meijer site and Lincoln were all lower after the redesign.
He said a traffic study for the redesigned Shoppes at Pierce showed a 25% decrease in weekday morning peak traffic and an 8% decrease in Saturday peak traffic. There was a slight 3% increase in weekday afternoon peak traffic because of the addition of a sit-down restaurant.
Dated Nov. 18, 2025, the traffic impact study was prepared by CBB Transportation Engineers and Planners.
Anderson said improvements by the Illinois Department of Transportation currently underway on Interstate 64 and the city’s planned traffic-calming measures on Pierce make the project feasible.
“We believe this new design will perform better for traffic than the originally approved plan,” Anderson said.
The traffic study reaffirmed the roadway conditions documented at the time of the 2023 approval, he said.
Green Mount Road, a north–south minor arterial maintained by O’Fallon north of I-64 and by St. Clair County south of I-64, with the Illinois Department of Transportation responsible for the interchange area, is a four-lane divided corridor.
Brian Smallwood of Woolpert Inc., a construction engineering firm based in Fairview Heights acting on behalf of Meijer Stores Limited Partnership, sought an amendment to the planned use zoning for the southeast corner of Green Mount Road and Pierce Boulevard, just north of Interstate 64.
The 6.68-acre property, zoned as planned community business district, includes four lots for future development. The council approved the original plan on July 17, 2023, which included three fast-food restaurants, one sit-down restaurant with on-site liquor sales, and one medical/retail building.
Current plans include a fast-food restaurant, a fast-casual restaurant, and a coffee shop, all with drive-through service, along with a convenience store and fuel stations with alcohol sales for off-site consumption.
The property, including the Meijer development, totals 23.61 acres and is currently undeveloped farmland. The site fronts Green Mount Road, Pierce Boulevard, and Interstate 64.
The Meijer Express fuel center and convenience store will occupy 1.73 acres, with hours limited from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
The fast-food restaurant will occupy 1.35 acres, the fast-casual restaurant 0.79 acres, and the coffee shop 0.93 acres; no tenants have been named yet.
The updated 2025 traffic study concluded that the same improvements identified in 2023 were warranted—full access at the Center East driveway and a recommended signal at the center shared access.
No access to Green Mount Road has been proposed or is recommended. The updated analysis confirmed that the planned access system will continue to function adequately despite revised land uses on the Meijer outlots and modest shifts in trip patterns.
The council approved the Meijer development plan for a 160,000-square-foot retail and grocery store in July 2023.