Silver Lake Village is a group of shops, offices, apartments, and parkland on Silver Lake Road in St. Anthony, Minnesota. It is the second thing built on this ground, and the first one lasted 43 years.
That was Apache Plaza, which opened in October 1961 as Minnesota’s second enclosed shopping mall. There was a post office in it and a bowling alley on the lower level.
By the early 2000s the mall was more than 95 percent empty, so the city approved a redevelopment plan for the site. Apache Plaza closed in January 2004. It came down that spring…