Mall Drive runs through east-side St. George as the post-2010 commercial buildout corridor. The corridor includes the Red Cliffs Mall (the city's principal indoor mall), the Walmart and Costco anchored big-box zone, the chain-restaurant strip, and the medical campus that has grown along Riverside Medical Drive on the corridor's south end. Mall Drive is functionally distinct from the older Bluff Street and St. George Boulevard arterials — those carry pioneer-era civic and downtown commerce; Mall Drive is where the city does its post-2010 daily-services and big-box shopping.
A post-2010 commercial corridor
Mall Drive's commercial buildout accelerated through the 2010s as the east-side residential growth (Bloomington Hills, Little Valley, Stucki Farms) created enough population density to support a second commercial center. The Red Cliffs Mall — the city's principal enclosed mall — anchors the corridor's central section. Costco and Walmart anchor the big-box zone. Chain restaurants, banks, and personal-services retail fill the strips along Mall Drive and the adjacent Pineview Drive.
A medical campus
The southern end of the Mall Drive corridor connects to Riverside Medical Drive, the address of the city's principal east-side medical campus. Intermountain Healthcare's St. George Regional Hospital sits at the heart of the medical campus, with surgery centers, specialty clinics, and ambulatory facilities arrayed across the surrounding parcels. The medical campus is one of the largest single employer zones in the county.
What the corridor is for
Mall Drive is where post-2010 St. George does its big-box and chain-services shopping. The corridor is functional, suburban, and contemporary — a different commercial pattern from the older downtown and Bluff Street arterials. It is one of the principal economic engines of the east-side residential growth and the daily-commerce anchor for most of the post-2000 St. George population.