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- Senior Member
Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:45 am
The Beacon has an article about the rebirth of the Jamestown Mall or Lindbergh Place as it will be known with its rebranding. 
It's supposed to,
-have an identifiable center and neighborhood edge.
-be of walkable size, generally meaning no more than a quarter-mile or five-minute walk from the edge to the center.
-set up an integrated grid of walkable streets, to distribute traffic.
-include a mix of land uses and types of buildings.
-have special sites for civic purposes.
The part about a street grid is interesting. The site is pretty far out there. It'd be nice if it made itself Alton's counterpart across the Confluence with the Katy Trail between. Maybe a bus with extra bike racks could run between there and Alton. I assume most of the land north of the mall floods or has important wetlands that shouldn't be trodded upon. Keeping that untouched or recreational makes a lot of sense.
There's really not much up there that's identifiable as a town center for Florissant, Black Jack, or Spanish Lake. Making a little urban village to pull everything together and help them consolidate their efforts would be nice. Maybe Spanish Lake could redirect it's casino idea to something more useful and less destructive.
I always found it strange that American malls anchored retail with bigger retail. In Singapore they anchor them with bus terminals, libraries, and apartment towers.
It's supposed to,
-have an identifiable center and neighborhood edge.
-be of walkable size, generally meaning no more than a quarter-mile or five-minute walk from the edge to the center.
-set up an integrated grid of walkable streets, to distribute traffic.
-include a mix of land uses and types of buildings.
-have special sites for civic purposes.
The part about a street grid is interesting. The site is pretty far out there. It'd be nice if it made itself Alton's counterpart across the Confluence with the Katy Trail between. Maybe a bus with extra bike racks could run between there and Alton. I assume most of the land north of the mall floods or has important wetlands that shouldn't be trodded upon. Keeping that untouched or recreational makes a lot of sense.
There's really not much up there that's identifiable as a town center for Florissant, Black Jack, or Spanish Lake. Making a little urban village to pull everything together and help them consolidate their efforts would be nice. Maybe Spanish Lake could redirect it's casino idea to something more useful and less destructive.
I always found it strange that American malls anchored retail with bigger retail. In Singapore they anchor them with bus terminals, libraries, and apartment towers.
