ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A historic restaurant building in south St. Louis County was demolished Wednesday to make way for a new $1.7 million strip mall.
The former Cusanelli’s restaurant at 705 Lemay Ferry Road in Lemay, an unincorporated area of south St. Lous County, closed in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and was purchased by a new owner for $295,000 in February, according to St. Louis County records. The Olivette-based LLC that owns the site, 705 Lemay Ferry Development LLC, is linked in state records to Shrey Patel and Jayant Patel.
Before Cusanelli’s closed, the Italian restaurant at the intersection of Lemay Ferry Road and Bayless Avenue was one of the St. Louis region’s oldest continuously operating restaurants, operating for nearly 70 years as Cusanelli’s. Before that it had operated for at least 30 years as Risch’s 8-Mile House, named for its location eight miles from downtown.
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