582:-based T. Wall Properties that featured an 8-to-10-story office building with ground-floor stores and restaurants and re-establishment of the original pre-mall street grid. An attempt that year to obtain federal stimulus funds for redevelopment of the site was turned down. In 2010, however, the city received enough interest in the property to seek $ 1 million in urban redevelopment funds to be put towards both the mall's demolition and the reconnection of Adams Street through the mall's former center court. The funding was part of an appropriations bill approved by the
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limestone-and-glass headquarters building, which opened in June 2014, consolidated
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would be transferred to the project in July 2011. The tearing down of the mall property began with recycling of materials in July 2011, followed by the demolition of the Days Inn the following fall, and the demolition of the remainder of the mall during the first half of 2012. The new
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404:The mall is demolished
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