Updated: 1:51 PM CST December 22, 2020
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. A plot of land that housed a once-sprawling, popular mall won’t be sitting empty for much longer, according to a plan by Dierbergs Markets, McBride Homes and the City of Crestwood.
The three made a joint announcement Tuesday regarding redeveloping the old Crestwood Mall site. The plan is to turn the 47 acres at Watson and Sappington roads into a mix of residential and business use.
“This is the most exciting piece of ground in the Crestwood area,” said John F. Eilermann Jr., CEO and chairman of McBride Homes.
The western part of the development will feature a 70,000 square foot Dierbergs grocery store, along with additional restaurants and retail businesses.
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The former Crestwood Plaza mall has a new developer: Dierbergs Markets and McBride Homes.
St. Louis-based grocery store chain Dierbergs and St. Louis-based residential homebuilder McBride Homes said Tuesday that they now have the site under contract, following months of negotiations with the Chicago-based owner, Urbanstreet Group. The city of Crestwood joined in the announcement.
The 47- acre property is located off Watson Road, just east of Sappington Road. For decades it housed an outdoor mall, then an indoor one, named Crestwood Plaza and then Crestwood Court. But the mall’s last stores closed in 2013. The site at the center of the city has been vacant ever since.