The Mercantile Exchange District (MX District) is the redevelopment of the vacant St. Louis Centre, a failed urban shopping mall that occupies two city blocks in Downtown St. Louis. The mall contained four levels of retail space and connected Dillard’s and Macy’s department stores. From its opening in the 1980s, it was clear the mall contained too much space, with an internal focus that turned its back to the street, creating an unfriendly street-level pedestrian environment.
Spinnaker Real Estate conceived a plan to turn the mall “inside out”, including an Embassy Suites, luxury apartments, and the Blues Museum in the former Dillard’s building, demolishing a pedestrian bridge that both took people off sidewalks as well as blocked views, created multiple street-front retail, restaurant, and theater spaces, and infilling the mall with much needed parking for surrounding office towers.
OUR TEAM BROUGHT THE PROPERTY TO 100% LEASED WITH TENANTS THAT INCLUDE: THE NATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM, SUGARFIRE SMOKEHOUSE, SNARF’S, ROBUST WINE BAR, MX MOVIES, BMO HARRIS, FIRST BANK, YMCA, SSM PHYSICAL THERAPY, CRAZY BOWLS & WRAPS, PI PIZZA, AND PORANO.
*Completed by LCG personnel while employed at prior firms.
