Town Hall on Jamestown Mall to be held Thursday night
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 16, 2009
by Tim Logan
Call it the Jamestown Mall. Call it Lindbergh Place.
Whatever you want to call the struggling North County shopping center, there's a town hall meeting to discuss its future Thursday night.
The Jamestown Mall, as you may recall, was the subject of a week-long urban planning SWAT team of sorts earlier this year. The St. Louis County Economic Council brought in a group of experts to study teh place and recommend ways to make it viable in a 21st century that doesn't look friendly to big enclosed shopping centers in hard-to-reach places.
The group's solution? Tear it down and start over with a mixed-use "lifestyle center" called Lindbergh Place. What exactly should be built there? How would you pay for it? Well, the experts left the answers to those questions up to us. (They also dodged the thorny question of what happens to the businesses now at the mall - many of which aren't too happy about the idea of being forcibly relocated).
And that's what Thursday night's town hall will be about, soliciting ideas for what to do next with the place. Got a good one? It starts at 6 p.m. at Hazelwood East High School, 11300 Dunn Rd.
