Comments on: Can Northwest Plaza Be Saved?

By: St. Louis Icon No More: Northwest Plaza | The Wellston Loop

St. Louis Icon No More: Northwest Plaza | The Wellston Loop — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:21:40 +0000

[...] always St. Louis blogger Toby Weiss offers a thoughtful take on the history and demise of Northwest Plaza; the comments section on this blog post is especially [...]

By: Johnny Boy

Johnny Boy — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:35:42 +0000

Yup, the mall’s doors have been locked, and it’s officially closed forever. What will happen with the husk of a building that large? The wrecking ball is my guess.

Those 120+ acres are too vital to the city of St. Ann, and I hope whatever replaces it goes belly up like the mall did, because those out to save it ONLY want to do so, because of their taxes being so sky high! They don’t care about the current mall.

You know what? I’ve been to that mall more times over the last 2 years than over 90% of those living in St. Ann, and I live in MASCOUTAH, ILLINOIS- over 50 miles away!!!

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:25:09 +0000

@ Jim; NW Plaza can STILL be a great mall! All it needs is to have the right investor(s) with the time and motivation to turn it around. Also, it will need the neighborhood’s motivation too. A big factor would be to get rid of Northwest Inn, Congress Inn, and all those adult stores around it…

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:33:11 +0000

I hate to say it, but today only 1 store remains, and the owner is looking to retire soon. When he leaves, nothing will keep the managers from locking the doors forever. That whole mall walk to save the mall should have happened about 5 years ago when it was obvious the mall was going downhill. I went there October 29, 2002- my birthday, and that mall was thriving. It had over 95% occupancy. The old Oshman’s was replaced by the Burlington.
It started to drop fast after November, 2003 when the Mills opened. In 2005 when the theater left, that was an obvious sign the mall was not in good shape. Why it takes the loss of Macy’s to get people to come out and cry about saving it when for years they had stopped going there is beyond me.
I live over in Illinois, so it’s an ordeal to get there, but as long as I can remember, THE mall to go to when you wanted to go to the mall with the biggest selection and have the most fun was Northwest Plaza. It breaks my heart to see it like this today. I just hope after it closes for good that someone can buy it, and actually turn it back around. If that means to tear part of it down, so be it, but I want to see Northwest Plaza’s name be synonamous with the greatest mall in St Louis again!!

By: Start Without You Music Video

Start Without You Music Video — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:37:56 +0000

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By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:27:29 +0000

I am loving your site. It is definitely a trip down memory lane. Northwest Plaza and Jamestown Mall were my hangout malls as a teenager in the ’90s. After college and some living out west I returned to live in the metro east and eventually got out to revisit my old hangouts. The disappointment was almost too much to bear. The movie theater and Tilt were closed, the food court only had 2 stores open, and the only anchor store remaining was the Sears and it was fairly empty. There may have been a total of 5-10 stores left in the whole facility. Jamestown was still surviving, but didn’t seem much better. I almost wish I had never revisited those places so my memories would remain untarnished by what I recently saw.

By: sharyn

sharyn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:26:51 +0000

So many memories of NW Plaza. Its where we always shopped. I still remember a good portion of what stores were there and where they were back in the 70′s and 80′s. I loved going there in the winter when it was decorated with the lighted reindeer and the water in the “horse head” fountains was replaced with lights running out of the tops of those stone horses. When you ran in and out from store to store in the snow, you really didn’t care!!! I could go on and on!

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:20:20 +0000

hey toby i emailed you some old time pics of the place not too long ago. you should have put them up!

By: Kyle Muldrow

Kyle Muldrow — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:28:56 +0000

Toby, I have posted a link to this post on labelscar.com, which has a LOT of comments about NWP. Please rest assured I completely credited you on this

Here’s the link to LabelScar:

http://www.labelscar.com/missouri/northwest-plaza

By: richard stupidhead

richard stupidhead — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:55:48 +0000

I think this was where Sally Lucas was last seen.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19710907&id=7iALAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WFIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2372,4075778

http://www.stlmag.com/media/St-Louis-Magazine/July-2007/Second-Sight/

her kid was in a play group with my older sisters.

I’ve always been fascinated by this. fodder for my own writing I suppose.