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Posted on June 28, 2013

Plaza Galleria Reduced to Rubble

Plaza Galleria razing 06-27-2013

I wonder if the plants managed to escape? Remember the piece I did on the plants that were trapped in the Plaza Galleria when the place shut down? They were the things of which bad dreams are made.

These look like the shrubs outside the building, not the orphans from inside.

Been empty since 2005

Plaza Galleria razing 06-27-2013The 56,000-square-foot building had been empty (except for screaming plants) since 2005.

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Ken Steinhoff, 2016Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, spent half a century in the ink-slinging business for papers in Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.

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