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ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Councilwoman Rochelle Walton Gray will host a Monday town hall meeting in Black Jack with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County Executive Sam Page where they plan to update residents about the Jamestown Mall redevelopment and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Zoo’s planned breeding facility and safari park.

Walton Gray, a Democrat from Black Jack, represents the County Council’s fourth district, covering far north ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County from Florissant to Riverview. 

Efforts have been underway for years to redevelop the dead Jamestown Mall, but the project stalled when the entity handling it, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County Port Authority, got caught between former County Executive Steve Stenger and the council. 

In November, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ County voters approved a one-eighth percent sales tax to fund zoo operations and the development of a 425-acre park near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. 

The meeting will run from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, July 15, at Christ Our Redeemer AME Church, 13820 Old Jamestown Road in Black Jack. 

Walton Gray’s husband, State Rep. Alan Gray, D-Black Jack, is also expected to be in attendance.