The Lexington Mall site at Richmond and New Circle roads on July 19, 2010, shortly after Southland Christian Church announced plans to buy the property. Dillards, on the left side of the mall in this picture, was the last tenant to leave, in 2005. Surrounding the mall property, counter-clockwise from left: The Home Depot, Perkins Restaurant and Bakery, a closed gas station, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar, and a Central Bank branch. After demolition of the mall, Southland’s Richmond Road campus opened in 2013. That Applebee’s closed last summer, and Chick-fil-A announced Jan. 3 that it would open a restaurant at that property. Click here to see an image of the first Applebee’s on Richmond Road, just up the street in the French Quarter Square. Photo by Faron Collins