WESLEY CHAPEL -- Cypress Creek Town Center is indefinitely on hold, a spokeswoman for the mall said today.

The Richard E. Jacobs Group, developers of the 1-million-square-foot project, and the prospective tenants of the mall agreed last week to halt all construction at the site on Interstate 75 and State Road 56 and postpone its opening, said Deanne Roberts.

The mall was originally scheduled to open in October. "I don't know what the new date will be," Roberts said.

The mall has long been dogged by controversy. Environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying the regulators should never have issued a permit for the Jacobs Group to fill 54 acres of wetlands at the site. 

In February, the corps suspended the permit, halting work on the 54 acres that would have been part of the mall.

Mall officials said that they decided last week to stop all construction on the site, because they did not want to risk the mall opening as an incomplete construction. But Roberts denied that Cypress Creek Town Center had lost any tenants because of these problems.

-- Chuin-Wei Yap, Times staff writer