Do-Over: County Will Look for New Proposals to Redevelop Jamestown Mall Site
Date Posted: July 19, 2019
Posted In: Discussion, News,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The St. Louis County Port Authority will issue another call for redevelopment proposals at the defunct Jamestown Mall site in north St. Louis County, redoing a 2018 process that had selected a developer planning a warehouse and logistics park for the land.
But in the meantime, officials told the 200-plus people who gathered at a nearby church for a Monday town hall meeting that they would move quickly to cut grass and secure the dilapidated 1.2-million-square-foot property near Highways 67 and 367.
“Even though there may not be any activity there, it doesn’t have to be an eyesore,” said Jacqueline Davis-Wellington, a longtime area economic development official whose firm has been hired to help operate the Port Authority.
Though the Port Authority had issued a request for proposals last year and selected a well-known Kansas City logistics park builder, NorthPoint Development, to redo the Jamestown Mall site, a contract was never executed. A federal search warrant for Stenger’s phone revealed that he and his former chief of staff, Bill Miller, had been discussing a bribe payment in September in relation to the deal. Who it was intended for and whether it was ever delivered are unclear.