What was once home to stores, four anchors, and a movie theater is now a vacant building surrounded by 9, parking spots. A new redevelopment plan emerged on March 15, when it was reported in the St. Ground was broken on this project on November If Jamestown Mall closes, North County will be left without a mall for the first time in over 50 years. Only the large outlet center, the St.
Louis Mills, will remain. Crestwood Court, seeing that the mall was dying quickly, chose to embrace a new idea called ArtSpace, which provided low rents to artists and other entertainment groups to help repurpose the mall. The program did provide some boost to the mall, but the program was short-lived and artists have now vacated the mall along with the last anchor, Sears.
The AMC closed this year and the last tenant closed its doors on May Crestwood Court is now the third mall to close in a decade. The mall is now being prepared for redevelopment by Sierra U. If built, it will be open-air, similar to the original Crestwood Plaza when it opened.
Louis Centre closed in His plan called for turning the mall into residential condos, street-level retail, and a teardown of the skybridges. While Pyramid never completed the development as the company closed in , St. Louis Centre open to rave reviews of commercial success — image c. Now dubbed the Mercantile Exchange, the former St. Louis Centre has been renovated into a parking garage with street-front retail, and the sky-bridges have been torn down.
Apartments are already filling up in the Laurel—the old Stix, Baer, and Fuller building—while Pi Pizza and the Collective a retail co-op have opened, with plans for MX Movies to open later this year.
While the Mercantile Exchange is the newest incarnation of a major effort to boost shopping and dining downtown, the St. Louis Centre has left an indelible mark on the history of downtown revitalization. Louis Centre proved that no silver bullet will ever repair downtown. But not all is lost from the former mall: the glass barrel vault ceiling still exists, covering a new parking garage this time.
Part of the Midway was shuttered when the hotel expanded in In addition, conference space will be added, and talks are ongoing for a new transportation museum. Louis malls are unique examples of the spatial development in the United States since the s. They are symbolic of the rise of consumerism in the 50s and 60s, redevelopment in the s and 90s, and the effect of the Great Recession on retail in the different communities in our region.
While some malls have been torn down, others boarded up, others quickly dying, and some still succeeding, it would be easy to write off malls as part of our urban fabric. Still, the malls might be one of the most important parts of the our spatial fabric.
Increasing development surrounding malls with both high-density housing and transportation connections could help create a better integrated region. This is exactly what the St. Louis Galleria has done as Metrolink now extends to it and the Boulevard St. Louis development has increased density in the area. However, in some ways, our region still has not learned the lessons that previous shopping malls have taught us.
Construction has already begun on two new outlet centers in Chesterfield, both within close proximity to each other and the Chesterfield mall. Much of the new development that is occurring in our region is not in Chesterfield or in St. New development is going to be concentrated in the city and inner-ring suburbs as the growing creative class becomes a larger part of our region, choosing to live in more urban areas. It is no secret that our suburbs are only aging and their populations will decrease over time.
This is just one among many reasons these centers are doomed to fail. Just as I have sorted the history of shopping malls into St. Louis into three eras, shopping malls or merely the idea of how and where we shop is entering a new era.
What is different, though, about this new era is that many existing suburban retail centers, both shopping malls and strip-malls, are going to be retrofitted as the suburban spatial fabric begins to change. The buildings were outdated and in need of costly updates and maintenance. There was inadequate meeting and daily administration space, and no separate locker rooms or sleeping quarters for male and female Fire personnel. Additionally, the Police Department facilities were cramped to the point of dysfunction.
Mandates from the Insurance Services Organization ISO including increases in Fire Department staffing levels, necessary quality improvements to the EMS service, and the need to replace deteriorating and inadequate facilities all contributed to the decision to tear down the old building and build a new one.
The need to increase the staffing to the Fire Department and provide Ambulance service required either an expansion of facilities or a brand new building.
After a thorough review by resident committees and Open House forums, the City felt construction of a new facility would be the best and most cost-effective measure in the long term. Construction began in November with the demolition of the former City Hall. The bonds were offered for purchase first to Frontenac residents based on an extremely low interest rate of 2.
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