Santa Claus makes his annual visit by helicopter at Crestwood Plaza shopping center for Christmas 1969. The mall, opened in 1957, bustled for years until the early 2000s.

Santa Claus makes his annual visit by helicopter at Crestwood Plaza shopping center for Christmas 1969. The mall, opened in 1957, bustled for years until the early 2000s.

The shopping center opened as Crestwood Plaza in 1957 before becoming an enclosed mall in 1984. The mall closed in 2013 and was demolished in 2017. It has been empty since then.

Originally built as Crestwood Plaza in 1957, the then open-air shopping center was the first major mall in the St. Louis region. It preceded several St. Louis area malls; Northwest Plaza came six ...

Crestwood Court, Crestwood Plaza, Westfield Shoppingtown Crestwood, Crestwood Mall—whatever you called it, the shopping mall that inspires memories in a generation of St. Louisans is coming down.

When Crestwood Court opened in 1957, it was the first major mall in the St. Louis area, and one of the first to have more than one department store. The final tenant closed Sept. 16, 2013. On May ...

Recent pictures from inside the mall show its current condition. Click here ... They put together a map of some of those dead malls and the former Crestwood Plaza made the list.

The locations are coming to the Dierbergs-anchored redevelopment of the former Crestwood Plaza mall, located along Watson Road in Crestwood. White House vows 'serious scrutiny' of U.S. Steel sale ...