River Roads Mall

River Roads Mall

River Roads Mall in October 1962
Location	Jennings, Missouri, United States
Coordinates	38°43′42″N 90°14′44″W / 38.72844°N 90.24557°W / 38.72844; -90.24557
Address	8944 Jennings Station Road
Opening date	1962
Closing date	1995 (demolished August 2006–September 2007)
Developer	Stix, Baer & Fuller
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	835,000 square feet (77,574.0 m2)
No. of floors	2

River Roads Mall, also known as River Roads Shopping Center, was an enclosed shopping mall located in the city of Jennings, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in 1962 as one of the nation's first shopping malls,^[1] it featured J. C. Penney, F. W. Woolworth Company, Kroger, and Stix, Baer & Fuller as its anchor stores. The mall was expanded in 1972 with a new location of J. C. Penney, but began losing major stores in the early 1980s. J. C. Penney closed in 1983, but was soon reopened as an outlet store, while Stix, Baer & Fuller was sold to Dillard's in 1984 and closed only two years later. Tenancy continued to decline throughout the 1990s, culminating in the closure of the J. C. Penney outlet and mall proper in 1995, although the abandoned structure was not demolished until 2006.