Crestwood Plaza

Crestwood Court

Crestwood Court Exterior
Coordinates	38°33′35″N 90°22′46″W / 38.55960°N 90.37954°W / 38.55960; -90.37954Coordinates: 38°33′35″N 90°22′46″W / 38.55960°N 90.37954°W / 38.55960; -90.37954
Address	109 Crestwood Plaza Crestwood, MO 63126
Opening date	March 21, 1957
Closing date	July 11, 2013
Developer	Milton Zorensky and Louis Zorensky
Owner	Centrum Properties
No. of stores and services	0 (space for 157)
No. of anchor tenants	0 (space for 3)
Total retail floor area	1,034,494 square feet (96,000 m2) (GLA)
No. of floors	1 (2-3 in anchors)

Crestwood Court, formerly known as Crestwood Plaza and Westfield Crestwood, is a defunct enclosed shopping mall in Crestwood, Missouri. 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 mall previously included Macy's, Dillard's and Sears as anchor stores, all three of which are now vacant, resulting in a "dead mall".

Crestwood Plaza was the first regional mall in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Local retail developers Louis and Milton Zorensky developed the mall in 1957. Its original anchor stores included local department store Scruggs, Vandervoort and Barney (later Famous-Barr, then Macy's) and Sears, making one of the first major malls to have more than one anchor store, and the first to utilize a split-level parking lot to allow direct access to both floors of the anchors. The Zorenskys later developed a second St. Louis mall, Northwest Plaza, which opened in 1963. In 1967, Crestwood was expanded, adding Stix Baer & Fuller (later Dillard's) as a third anchor.

The mall was the subject of a 1975 lawsuit related to a Kroger supermarket that formerly operated within it. The suit was filed after Kroger moved to a new store across the street in 1972 and subleased its space in the mall to Tipton Electronics. Mall owners wanted to terminate the lease with Kroger, but Kroger wanted to maintain the sub-lease. The suit ruled in Kroger's favor.

Originally an open-air mall, Crestwood Plaza was enclosed in 1984. A Woolworth store at the mall closed in 1988, and was replaced by 18 smaller stores a year later.

Westfield Group purchased Crestwood Plaza in 1998 and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown Crestwood. The company sold two other St. Louis-area malls to CBL & Associates Properties in 2007, but did not include Crestwood in the sale. It had previously attempted to sell the mall to Somera Capital Management in 2006, but the deal was not completed. The mall was ultimately sold to Centrum Properties and renamed Crestwood Court. Also in 2007, Dillard's closed its store in the mall due to decreased sales. Famous-Barr had also announced plans to relocate to a new outdoor mall in Sunset Hills, but remained at Crestwood after the Sunset Hills development was canceled. The Crestwood store closed as a Macy's in 2009, leaving Sears as the only anchor.