Plans for replacing old Macy’s with restaurants at Valley View Mall to go before city committees this week

We could see part of the Valley View Mall demolished during the first half of the new year, to be replaced by new restaurants.

La Crosse’s plan commission and a city council committee both have proposals for the demolition of the Macy’s store on their agendas for meetings on Tuesday night. The vacant Macy’s space at Valley View opened as Dayton’s in 1980, as an original anchor store in the mall, and later was occupied by Marshall Field before becoming a Macy store.

According to documents on the city’s website, the Macy’s could be torn down between February and May of this year. New businesses described as a coffee shop, an Asian restaurant, and a chicken restaurant, reportedly a Raising Cane’s franchise, would be built on the Macy’s site later in the year.

The GMX development group from Illinois also has proposed a new car wash for that location. The proposals for the Macy’s space were referred for a month by the city council at its December meeting.