A six-month study of Hoover’s Riverchase Galleria recommends a two-phase, roughly $240 million redevelopment of the 39-year-old shopping mall into a mixed-use development with apartments, a performing arts center and green space.

The Hoover City Council Monday night heard a presentation of the 147-page study, which the city commissioned six months ago.

Chicago-based Hunden Partners looked at several factors, including the surrounding retail and residential landscape.

Their solution: a walkable city center that would require investment from the city as well as some kind of public-private partnership.

Financial support from the city could be in the form of land acquisitions, infrastructure reimbursements, and/or tax incentives, the study recommended.

“We understood that before Brookfiel

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