Forum Drone: Chesterfield Mall Demo Update

Date Posted: December 10, 2024

Posted In: Drone, Projects,

This week Forum drone photographer Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle LLC gathered images of demolition on the Chesterfield Mall.

Demolition began in October on the 50-year-old mall. The demo will allow the Staenberg group to develop the $2B “Downtown Chesterfield” project. The project will include 2,700 new residential units plus offices, grocery, restaurants and other uses which will occupy millions of square feet.

TIF financing of $352M will cover public improvements to infrastructure including roads, sidewalks, utilities, and parking. The entire project is expected to take about 10 years. Demolition will be finished by mid-2025, with site grading and paving to follow.

Demolition crews began taking down parts of the shuttered mall Tuesday morning, launching what will be a yearslong process to transform the site into a 90-acre, high-density hub in west St. Louis County.

“The initial phase of development — slated to include 4.5 million square feet of buildings over 10 years — will include about 2,363 residential units, which the developers envision as being multigenerational and creating a community.

The developers first proposed the project in 2017 and acquired the property in 2020.