Springfield’s Eastfield Mall looks to future as an ‘internet resistant’ community-within-a-community
Mountain Development Corp., owner of the Eastfield Mall, wants Eastfield Commons, the $200 million, open-air, mixed use development it plans for the site, to be unique, convenient and trendy. But Mountain needs it to be, in the words of Chuck Breidenbach, managing director for MDC Retail Properties Group, “internet resistant.” “It’s a problem everybody in brick-and-mortar retail is facing,” Breidenbach said in a phone interview with The Republican on Tuesday. “We have a vision to make this into a large mixed-use site. We feel it is the best use for the location.