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Tweet Villagers looking to blow off a little steam, get their heart rate up, or bring their stress level down have a new fitness option at Corinth Square. Fitness professionals Janell and Glen Bartlett opened a new studio, Kempo Fitness, on the west side of the main Corinth building near Social Suppers and Soul Patch [...]
Tweet The president of the company that bought the Village Shops, Fairway Shops and Corinth Square in a much touted $62.1 business deal three years ago has a new position of influence in the real estate world. LANE4 Property Group’s Owen Buckley was named the Missouri state director for the International Council of Shopping Centers, [...]
Tweet One of the most popular Ripple Glass bins in the Kansas City metro area will be hopping around a bit in the coming days. The Corinth Square bin found a very temporary home behind Hattie’s Coffee after demolition on the Tippin’s building began last week. But concerns about noise for the merchants in that [...]
Tweet Construction crews: Ready your implements. LANE4 vice president Jeff Berg told the Prairie Village City Council on Monday that the first round of major renovations funded by the Corinth Square Community Improvement District sales tax should begin the first week of April. The first phase of renovations will include a significant facelift of the [...]
Tweet The proposed route change for a Prairie Village trail won’t be the only item of interest on tonight’s Prairie Village City Council agenda. LANE4 Property Group, which owns the Village Shops and Corinth Square, is scheduled to give a presentation updating the council on planned developments to be funded by Community Improvement District tax [...]
Tweet If you’ve got a penchant for watching things get dismantled, knocked down, or otherwise rendered a pile of wreckage, Prairie Village has been paradise over the past few weeks. The demolition days began a couple weeks ago with the deconstruction of the McCrum Park water tower. Now, two more demolitions are under way. Crews [...]
Tweet Time to say your last goodbyes to the old Tippin’s building at Corinth Square. The city of Prairie Village has issued a demolition permit for the structure, with the contractor predicting work will begin on Monday. (We assume this means the Ripple Glass bin will be moving behind Hattie’s very shortly). Assistant City Administrator [...]
Tweet In anticipation of the coming demolition of the former Tippin’s building at Corinth Square, Ripple Glass will be moving its recycling bin behind Hattie’s Coffee for the forseeable future. Hattie’s is located due west of the Tippin’s building, in the strip of shops that includes the tailor and nail salon just north of Hen [...]
Tweet LANE4 Property Group is in the process of completing the sale of the Corinth Square building occupied by Bank of America until the summer of 2010 to a family that owns a variety of businesses throughout the region. Justin Kaufmann of LANE4 said the company had initially sought to re-lease, and not sell, the [...]
Tweet If Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday didn’t strike you as fitting official openings to the holiday season, last night’s tree lighting ceremony at Corinth Square should have done the trick. A couple hundred Villagers braved the chilly first night of December for the 26th annual celebration. Mayor Ron Shaffer played emcee [...]
Tweet Alright, kids: Break out those Big Chief tablets and your Crayolas (or your iPad…whatever is you all write on these days), ‘cause you’ve only got 12 hours to polish off those Christmas lists for Santa. The elf – who has been previously described as right, jolly and old – will be at Corinth Square [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s restaurant boom continues. LANE4 Property Group announced Monday that SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza will be opening a new restaurant at Corinth Square in late 2012 or early 2013. The new restaurant will occupy 3,500 square feet — or just over a third — of the space currently occupied by CVS Pharmacy. “Our tenants [...]
Tweet A Goodwill truck will be at Corinth Square from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in recognition of America Recycles Day. Radio station Q104 will be having a live remote broadcast from the shopping center, where Goodwill staff will be collecting donations. Suggested donations include: Clothing & linens Computers, printers, monitors, keyboards, etc. (any [...]
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 Fairway mom’s successful online boutique has taken retail form at Corinth Square for the holidays. The La Plates POP UP Shoppe will be open in a storefront just south of Social Suppers through early December. Owner Lara Hazelett Shelton launched the La Plates website in 2008, offering kid-friendly melamine plates that could be customized [...]
Tweet Hillcrest Covenant Church got Halloween celebrations off to an early start with a pumpkin carving party at Franklin Park —- a party whose centerpiece activity was made markedly difficult by the fact that the shelter lights didn’t come on after dusk, forcing parents to use their cell phones as flashlights: For other area Halloween [...]
Tweet The Village and Corinth Square Merchants Associations are looking for feedback from local residents about their shopping centers — why people shop, what they like, what they don’t like, and how they get information about what’s going on at the centers. They’ve posted an electronic survey, which, when successfully completed, entitles the completor to [...]
Tweet The wave of restaurants that have opened at the Village Shops and Corinth Square aren’t just new — they’re also very good, at least according to The Pitch’s annual Best of KC issue. Urban Table, Tavern in the Village and Story all got a shout out in the issue, which hit stands last week. [...]
Tweet Change of plans, Jayhawk fans. Former Kansas forward Darrell Arthur, currently on the Memphis Grizzlies, was scheduled to make an appearance at Johnny’s Tavern in Corinth Square tonight to sign copies of author Jason King’s “Beyond the Phog: Untold Stories from Kansas Basketball’s Most Dominant Decade.” But Arthur’s grandfather fell and broke his hip [...]
Tweet You’ve probably noticed a preponderance of pink around town lately. Breast Cancer Awareness month is in progress – and Prairie Village businesses are getting ready to celebrate women who’ve conquered the disease. On Wednesday, InClover will be holding a Back in the Swing party from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in honor of Kristen Cristian. Bridget [...]
Tweet No, the abandoned Tippin’s Restaurant building at Corinth Square wasn’t burning down last night. Building owner LANE4 and Consolidated Fire District No. 2 worked out a deal allowing the firefighters to use the building for a series of training exercises since the building is scheduled to be demolished to make way for the new [...]
Tweet It’s possible that Dragon Inn may be nearing the tail end of its 23 year run at Corinth Square. Tide Dry Cleaners has submitted a proposal to the Prairie Village Planning Commission seeking tentative approval for a series of renovations to Dragon Inn’s current location. LANE4 leasing agent Trip Ross confirmed that the company [...]
Tweet Four new “pocket parks,” small developments featuring areas for rest or recreation, will be perhaps the most noticeable addition to Corinth Square as part of the plans approved by the city Tuesday night. Here’s a quick look at what each will consist of: Northeast corner, outside current CVS location: The centerpiece of this “node” [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday green-lighted the design concept for the renovation of Corinth Square’s main structure, setting the stage for a $5 million construction project that would fulfill owner LANE4′s obligations under a Community Improvement District agreement. The project will consist of an extensive renovation of the building’s facade and the [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Planning Commission tonight will get the chance to approve — or postpone a decision on — Corinth Square owner LANE4′s proposal to completely revamp the facade of the aging shopping center. LANE4 submitted its Corinth Square plans, developed by architect Generator Studio, to the city in August in anticipation of tonight’s meeting. [...]
