History
In 1999, a slice of Norman Rockwell’s America, brimming with 21st century technology, began emerging from the then bucolic O’Fallon, Mo. Dubbed WingHaven® by its developer, McEagle, the $750 million master planned community has grown dramatically, transforming once idle rural land into a Mecca for technology-based businesses and a new model for how communities connect.

Spanning 1,200 acres, WingHaven® is designed as a crossroads of engagement. Its founding principles nurture an emerging creative class coveted by companies that see human capital as their greatest “edge.”

MasterCard was one such company. The firm built its $135 million Global Technology and Operations Center at WingHaven®. It has been followed in short order by other technology businesses such as Everest/GLA Network Technologies, NORDYNE Inc., Evanston Financial and Xspedius.

Driving the concept is what McEagle has coined LifeWorks™ – the integration of living, learning, working and playing – in a single community. Connections are ingeniously woven into everyday life. LifeWorks™ serves as a powerful counterweight to lives that are often multi-tasked into isolation.

Today, more than 7,500 people live or work in WingHaven®.