They’re tearing down the bridge over Washington Avenue, and as one poster on the Post-Dispatch comment section said (I know, an intelligent comment from that forum?), you could probably put the officials’ remarks today next to the ones said 25 years ago, and they’d be nearly identical. BS like this will transform downtown, the best…
Tag: Crumby Run-Down Malls of St. Louis
Old Open Air Shopping Malls
Update: I’m still looking! I am hoping that maybe someone out there can help me with something. I am searching for old photos of Northwest Plaza and Crestwood Mall before they were enclosed in the 1980’s. Also, I would love pictures of any malls in St. Louis that depict their original interior decorations, which have…
Crumby Run-Down Malls of St. Louis #3: River Roads Mall
Update: See the site in November of 2025 with its new buildings. I have to admit that I had never even heard of River Roads Mall when I was growing up, which is saying something because I was obsessed as a pre-teen in seeing every shopping mall in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Perhaps it…
Crumby Rundown Malls of St. Louis #2: Crestwood Mall
Update: Demolished in mid-2016; most of this commentary is now out of date. I hadn’t realized how far this mall had fallen since my high school days when I would go to Crestwood Mall just about every weekend. I was alerted to its decline from Dead Malls, and decided last winter to go over and…
Crumby Run-Down Malls of St. Louis #1: Saint Louis Centre
Update: Pyramid Companies went bankrupt before renovating St. Louis Centre. The mall has been completely renovated, the mall converted into a parking garage, and the first floor is now street level shopping and restaurants. Both skybridges are now gone. The pandemic affected occupancy rates throughout downtown, including in the former St. Louis Centre building. The…