The Meadows Begins to Address Concerns Around Infrastructure
Date Posted: April 13, 2023
Posted In: Projects,
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: The concept of The Meadows serving as a downtown for Lake Saint Louis is moving closer to reality as residential projects adjacent to the shopping center continue to be developed and achieve occupancy goals. Problems that owners described in 2022 as out-of-state ownership with no local management and unkept and damaged landscape and infrastructure are being righted.
Last month, Teddy Chattah, of New York-based Cohen Equities, confirmed that a local general manager for The Meadows was hired in October 2022, who is on-site at the mall full-time. However, Chattah’s is the only contact name still listed on the Meadows website.
“Once COVID-19 had calmed down in 2022, Cohen Equities began mapping out and signed contracts for significant repairs and maintenance to be done in 2023” Chattah said. Those renovations have already begun, with scheduling and pace subject to weather conditions, he said.
He said a seven-figure contract was awarded to Ford Asphalt Company, of Bridgeton, for all concrete and asphalt work at ground level. The first step is the repair and replacement of concrete curbs, sidewalks, drains and other concrete surfaces throughout the mall. Ford Asphalt also will resurface all parking lots throughout the mall. However, that will not be done until the weather stays consistently warm enough for the new asphalt to cure and dry. Temperatures below 50 can cause problems.
Western Specialty Contractors, of St. Louis, was awarded a six-figure contract to renovate the above-ground levels of the parking garage next to Von Maur. That work will begin after the ground-level parking lots around the garage have been resurfaced.
According to Chattah, Frisella Landscape Group, of Richmond Heights, has been awarded a six-figure contract to renovate landscaping throughout the mall, including plants and bushes, hardscaping and repairs to the irrigation system. Landscape work will need to be timed around completion of parking lot resurfacing.