St. Louis Outlet Mall

St. Louis Outlet Mall

St. Louis Outlet Mall (formerly St. Louis Mills) in Hazelwood, MO
Location Hazelwood, Missouri, United States
Coordinates 38°47′19″N 90°24′49″W / 38.7887°N 90.4137°W / 38.7887; -90.4137Coordinates: 38°47′19″N 90°24′49″W / 38.7887°N 90.4137°W / 38.7887; -90.4137
Opening date November 2003
Developer Mills Corporation
Owner The Woodmont Company
No. of stores and services 100+
No. of anchor tenants 8
Total retail floor area 1,191,666 ft²[1]
No. of floors 1
Parking 5,000 free spaces
Website http://www.stlouisoutletmall.com/

St. Louis Outlet Mall, formerly St. Louis Mills, is a shopping center in Hazelwood, Missouri, just off Route 370. When it opened in November 2003, it had over 200 specialty shops and 8 anchor stores.[2] Due to the current weaker economy, this number shrank to just over 180. It is a venture investment by developer and former owner, Mills Corporation that offers many retail stores and entertainment attractions. The newest addition to the mall is a 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m2) Cabela's store that opened on April 13, 2007. Also in April 2007, The Mills Corp. merged into Simon Property Group; St. Louis Mills was their only property in the St. Louis area. In November The Children's Place Outlet opened, replacing Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue. When the mall was first planned in 2000, the name was "Missouri Mills." In October 2012, Simon sold St. Louis Mills to The Woodmont Company and St. Louis Mills was renamed to St. Louis Outlet Mall.[3]

Neighborhoods

St. Louis Outlet Mall is divided up into six sectors called neighborhoods; each neighborhood has a different theme that contributes to the overall design, decoration, and attractions in that area of the mall. For example, the "SportStreet" area features wood floors like those found on a basketball court, and had contained NASCAR Speedpark until its closure in January 2014, and Ice Zone ice skating rink, which both are sports-related attractions. Neighborhood themes include:

Each area of the mall features decorations, artwork, and colors in line with its namesake.

Attractions

Ice Zone

Ice Zone (also styled iceZone) is a 1,200-seat indoor ice arena connected to the Northwest section of the mall. The Ice Zone is open to the public for skating, figure skating, and local youth, high school and adult hockey teams. The arena is the official practice facility of the St. Louis Blues hockey team. The rink offers free bleacher seating for fans during practice sessions.[4]

The Ice Zone is also home to the Gateway Locomotives, a special needs hockey team.

The NASCAR Speedpark

The Speedpark includes an indoor/outdoor go-kart race track & sometimes features appearances by NASCAR drivers such as Kevin Harvick, having them meet with fans and sign autographs.[5] NASCAR Speedpark closed in January 2014.

Mall walking

Sponsored by local St. Louis Christian Hospital, the "No Loafers Walking Club" meets daily at the mall and walks a one-mile (1.6 km) course within the mall from 7am to 10am, before any of the mall stores open for the day. The hospital sponsors prizes for club members meeting fitness milestones, as well hosts education programs on the second Tuesday of every month on varying health-related topics.[6]

Anchors & Majors

According to the latest map, St. Louis Outlet Mall has thirteen anchor spaces, with three currently closed.

Occupied Anchors

Former Anchor Stores

Media Attention

Skate Park

The ESPN Skate Park opened with the mall but in 2004, however the mall did not have the correct copyright agreement to use the ESPN name with the park which led it to be renamed the "St Louis Mills Skate Park" in late 2005. The park then closed in early 2006 and remained closed until 2007 when a new sponsor named Woodward announced that they would take ownership. Plans for that then fell through in mid-2007 and the park continued to stay closed.

The Park was finally re-opened with a new skate sponsor "Plan Nine" in spring of 2009 after over three years of being closed. The layout of the park has changed only slightly.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.showcase.com/property/5555-St-Louis-Mills-Boulevard/Hazelwood/Missouri/722056
  2. ↑ St. Louis welcomes Mills mall - Features
  3. ↑ Bryant, Tim (2012-10-29). "St. Louis Mills now St. Louis Outlet Mall". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 2/10/2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. ↑ St. Louis - Arts & Entertainment - Walk a Mall in Our Shoes
  5. ↑ St. Louis - Arts & Entertainment - This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
  6. ↑ Simon Malls | More Choices @ St. Louis Mills Information, St. Louis Mills Gift Cards
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