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West County Center is a shopping mall located in Des Peres, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The original mall was built in 1969. [ 2 ] The original mall closed in 2001, and a new mall on the site opened in 2002.
Crestwood Court (formerly known as Westfield Shoppingtown Crestwood and Crestwood Plaza) was a shopping mall in Crestwood, Missouri.Opened in 1957, it was the first major mall in the St. Louis area, and one of the first to have more than one department store.
St. Louis Union Station; South County Center; ... Ward Parkway Center; West County Center; West Park Mall; Westport Plaza; Z. Zona Rosa (Kansas City, Missouri)
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]
By 1850, there were 75,000 people living in St. Louis. Des Peres was mainly settled by German immigrants and southerners from Virginia and the Carolinas who were drawn to the area by the farmland sold off by the United States government in 80-to-160-acre (32 to 65 ha) tracts.
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.
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Westport was built by a prominent St. Louis developer, Thomas J. White, [2] and opened in 1973. [3] Westport since has grown to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2) of office buildings, restaurants, entertainment venues, and hotels. [4]