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Tweet Chacko’s Eatery, a popular Johnson Drive restaurant and bakery in Mission, is closing April 27. Chacko’s has been in business for 15 years, first as a catering company that David and Rachel Finn ran from home starting in 1998. The success of their lunch box offerings allowed them to move to 6001 Johnson Drive [...]
Tweet Tulip, the women’s clothing boutique on Tomahawk Road, announced Monday it was closing its Village Shops location after five years in business. Tulip will keep its second location at the Country Club Plaza open, and said in an email to customers that it would honor gift card and “Petal Points” — part of a [...]
Tweet The abrupt departure last month of the Vintage Market in the north Leawood shops at Somerset Drive and Lee Boulevard caught several of the vendors who sold goods there off guard — and has them pursuing legal action against the store’s owner. Sheila Kost, who had sold merchandise through Vintage Market for more than two [...]
Tweet Evidence of the ol’ Internet’s impact on brick and mortar operations has reached an interesting local milestone: the closing of the last Blockbuster Video retail location in northeast Johnson County. An employee of the Johnson Drive Blockbuster in Mission said Tuesday the store was selling all of its inventory and planned to close for [...]
Tweet Vintage Market, that quirky purveyor of quirky home furnishings, has closed its store in the north Leawood shops at Lee Boulevard and Somerset Drive in favor of a new space at Town Center Plaza. The north Leawood location closed quickly and quietly earlier this month February 14, with several neighboring tenants wondering what prompted [...]
Tweet Mady and Me Children’s Boutique will close at the Village Shops Dec. 28, with owners moving operations to a new location and under a new name in 2013. The store will be open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dec. 26-28, with all merchandise for sale at 50 percent off listed prices. The company was purchased by [...]
Tweet A longtime Village Shops fixture has closed its doors in preparations for a construction project that will bring a first-in-the-nation eatery/entertainment concept to the center. Einstein Bros. Bagels ceased operations at its Village Shops location over the holiday weekend, but representatives of the property owner say talks are still under way to try to [...]
Tweet When Village Active closed its doors at the Village Shops Tuesday, it was for the last time. Owner Cassie Schmidt confirmed Wednesday that the store was going out of business. Originally opened as Jake’s in the Village in 2007, the store went through a rebranding in June 2011 to become more focused on performance [...]
Tweet Paying his respects to the recently shuttered Waid’s at the Village Shops in the Pitch yesterday, food critic Charles Ferruzza notes that the neighborhood diner chain had a long tradition in the Kansas City area — and its attrition to a single metro-area location is worth lamenting. But, Ferruzza notes, the food… well, it [...]
Tweet Whelp. Turns out Charles Ferruzza was on to something. Waid’s Restaurant, a Village Shops fixture for decades, closed its doors for good Sunday. LANE4 Property Group, which owns the property, will likely redevelop it as part of the Village Shops Community Improvement District renovations. We’ve got a call in to LANE4 for comment — [...]
Tweet Matney Floral, a mainstay at the Fairway Shops for nearly a quarter century, will close its doors for good in the coming weeks. Bookkeeper Cindy Dalton told the Prairie Village Post that the store has stopped taking new flower orders. The store will be selling its current inventory, and close once it is gone. [...]
Tweet If you needed a reminder that the world is a much different place in 2012 than it was just five or ten years ago, one of the most recent casualties of the down economy should suffice. Blockbuster, the 1990s powerhouse of retail movie and game rental, closed its last Prairie Village-area location — in [...]
Tweet A little more than a year after it opened at 95th Street and Nall Avenue in Prairie Village, Le Peep restaurant will be closing its doors. Owner Al Hinman said he expects operations to have ceased by the first week of January. “It’s always a hard decision when you have to pull the trigger [...]
Tweet The down economy appears to have taken its final toll on one of Prairie Village’s most-beloved stores. The Toon Shop has closed its doors just three months after moving to a smaller space at the Village Shops. At this point it is unclear what will happen to the Music Academy still located under the [...]
Tweet After 24 years, Dragon Inn will close its Corinth Square restaurant for good December 31, its owners confirmed Thursday. Thomas Tsui and his sister Catherine Kot will be consolidating the business’s operations to the original Overland Park location at 7500 W. Santa Fe, which opened in 1975. “It’s hard to say goodbye,” Kot said. [...]
Tweet A Johnson County news institution with its roots in Prairie Village is shutting its doors. The Johnson County Sun laid off 20 editorial and sales employees Tuesday, and announced that the issue hitting stands later this week would be its last. The paper originally started as the Village Scout, a weekly introduced for the [...]
Tweet Stoney Broke Ltd., the high-end furniture and interior design shop at the Village Shops, will be closing its doors for good at the end of the month. The business has been closed for the past three days as managers prepared for a “Bon Voyage” sale of existing inventory. The sale starts Thursday at 10 [...]
Tweet Another local business looks to be the victim of the down economy. Haught Style, the clothing boutique on Tomahawk Road in the Village Shops, will close its doors for good Saturday, Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. The store will be offering its inventory at increasingly discounted prices as its closing date nears. A sign [...]
Tweet Curious Sofa certainly isn’t closing up shop due to lack of interest in its products. The first day of the store closing sale drew a huge crowd on Sunday, with lines for the cash registers literally winding through the store. An hour after the start of the sale many of the goods, which were [...]
Tweet Local interior design aficionados got some sad late last week: The Curious Sofa, the quirky, locally owned furniture and decorations store, will be closing its doors Jan. 15. The business will to continue to operate online. On the store’s blog, owner Debbie Dusenberry said it had been an “important decision in the making,” and [...]
Tweet So if you showed up at the Village Shops yesterday with a hankering for fajitas, chances are you were pretty disappointed. Jose Pepper’s, the Tex-Mex restaurant that had been operating out of the space at the intersection of Prairie Lane and Mission Lane, greeted visitors Monday with a sign in the window letting them [...]
Tweet A backhoe made short work yesterday of the building that housed Roney’s Service Station for nearly six decades. Piles of brick, concrete, twisted rebar and splintered wood are all that remain of the service desk and garage. And though the crew spent weeks cleaning the facility out, a couple of reminders of Roney’s history [...]
Tweet The pumps may be gone. All of the equipment may be out of the garage. But after nearly six decades of business, plenty of memories linger around the old service station at the corner of Mission and Tomahawk. And judging by the response we’ve gotten to the post announcing the closure, Roney’s service station [...]
Tweet Roney’s service station, a Prairie Village institution that had been running at the corner of Tomahawk Road (previously 69th Street) and Mission Road since 1951, has closed its doors for good. On Friday cones with pieces of paper that read “CLOSED” blocked the driveway, and a sign in the window informed visitors that “After [...]
