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Construction began on the mall in 1972. Its anchor stores at the time were Sears and Stix Baer & Fuller, a local chain based in nearby St. Louis. [3] The mall's initial roster of stores and services included Forum Cafeteria, Walgreen Drug, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream, Camelot Music, Davy Jones Locker, The Limited, Orange Bowl snack bar, Pass Pets, and an Aladdin's Castle video arcade.
In December 2017, a 59-year-old man was attacked and his vehicle carjacked during late Saturday morning hours near the mall's Dillard's store. [16] In March 2018, Mid Rivers was reported as one of several St. Louis area malls at which a woman allegedly photographed young girls in bathroom stalls to share with a man. [17]
Its location and development were chosen in part because of the affluent surrounding areas, for example Ladue, Frontenac, Town & Country, Kirkwood. Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a store in Central West End St. Louis since the early 1950s, relocated its St. Louis store to the Plaza Frontenac location in 1973. [11]
In 2006, Nordstrom announced plans to open a store at the mall. In December 2008, Nordstrom said that due to the economy, it would delay the opening from 2010 until 2011. [2] The store opened to the public on September 23, 2011. [8] The recession hit Galleria sales hard in 2008, as Jimmy'z and Mark Shale closed.
The 25-story office tower is the ninth-tallest habitable building in St. Louis at a height of 375 feet (114 m). [1] The mall was four stories with a green, white, and glass façade. When the mall opened in 1985, St. Louis Centre was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States, with over 150 stores with 20 restaurants in 1,500,000 ...
The Tilt! arcade closed in the summer of 2007, moving most of their arcades to other stores, namely their newest location in St. Louis Mills, despite being rated as one of the top 3 arcades in the St Louis area in 2003. [50] [51] Steve & Barry's closed in 2008, a year before the company became defunct. [52] In early 2009, Dillard's left. [53]
Hull Property Group purchased the mall in 2018, [15] In March 2018, the St. Louis area's only American Girl store in the mall, closed. [16] [12] [14] On May 31, 2018, it was announced Sears would close, as a part of a plan to close 72 stores nationwide, also including the nearby South County Center location.
Sketch by St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Marguerite Martyn of the opening of the Grand-Leader department store on September 8, 1906. Stix, Baer and Fuller (sometimes called "Stix" or SBF or the Grand-Leader) was a department store chain in St. Louis, Missouri that operated from 1892 to 1984.