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Tweet If all goes according to plan, the Village Shops will be home to the inaugural location of a new restaurant/entertainment concept that its founders — two former AMC Theatre executives —hope will spread throughout the Kansas City metro and eventually across the country. Dineplex International, LLC President Frank Rash will announce today that his [...]
Tweet Pedestrian friendliness and parking continued to top concerns expressed Prairie Village area residents Tuesday as the Village Shops ownership group made its first formal presentation to the city’s Planning Commission about major proposed renovations to the center. Several commissioners and members of the public worried aloud that a planned drive-thru lane at a new [...]
Tweet Parking and traffic were the top concerns expressed by attendees at LANE4′s presentation Thursday about major planned redevelopments at the Village Shops. During the presentation, LANE4 president Owen Buckley walked the crowd through the company’s plans to completely revamp Mission Lane and build a new 6,000 square foot retail space to replace the current [...]
Tweet The driver of the Ford 150 pickup that plowed through three hedges and into the front of Dolce Baking Co. at the Village Shops early Monday sustained virtually no injuries in the crash, and the vehicle’s passenger sustained only minor scratches to the face and eyes, Prairie Village police said Monday. When they arrived [...]
Out-of-control pickup truck plows over curbs, destroys exterior of Dolce Baking Co. at Village Shops
Tweet All things considered, says Dolce Baking Co.’s owner Erin Brown, it could have been a lot worse. Brown received a call in early hours of Monday morning from Prairie Village police letting her know that an out-of-control Ford 150 had blasted through the front of her popular Village Shops store. No one was inside [...]
Tweet An expanded Hen House and a new 5,000 square foot retail space replacing the former Waid’s Restaurant were among the high-level plans for the Village Shops LANE4 President Owen Buckley revealed during a presentation to the Prairie Village City Council on Monday. The renovations, scheduled to begin before the end of the calendar year, [...]
Tweet Story restaurant isn’t the only local business to have gotten a pleasing pour of panegyric from Wine Spectator. The Village Shops’ Rimann Liquors is one of just three stores in the state to make the magazine’s “outstanding wine shop list.” And the national attention for the stores at 71st Street and Mission Road doesn’t [...]
Tweet Here’s a Story local wine lovers will enjoy. When the August issue of Wine Spectator magazine hits shelves next week, readers across the nation will get a favorable introduction to the Village Shops’ Story restaurant and proprietor Carl Thorne-Thomsen. Story’s wine list won a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, an honor that’s been bestowed [...]
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 Merchants at Corinth Square and the Village Shops kick off their annual Sidewalk Sale today, though construction at Corinth Square will force some of the stores to display their sale items indoors. “Many of the merchants along 83rd Street will have their sales inside,” said the Merchants Association’s Donna Potts. “But they will have [...]
Tweet A bill rolling back some of Kansas’s more restrictive liquor laws signed by Gov. Sam Brownback earlier this month may prove a boon to Prairie Village’s burgeoning hospitality industry. The bill will allow bars and restaurants to offer happy hour specials for set periods of time. Previously, bars and restaurants had to make any [...]
Tweet It has been quite the face race. But after four days of online voting, the people have spoken about faces with their fingers. We are pleased to annouce that Katie Trenkle and her daughter Molly have pulled out an impressive win in the second annual Prairie Village Post “Show Us Your Art Face!” competition. [...]
Tweet Thanks to everyone who stopped by and saw Julia at the Prairie Village Post table at the Art Fair Friday. And larger thanks to everyone who stepped up and entered our almost semi-famous “Show Us Your Art Face” contest. First, let’s take a look at the piece of art that our Art Fair patrons [...]
Tweet The area’s biggest art fair — which continues to draw increasing attention from artists across the country – returns to the Village Shops tonight for a three day run. Organizer Donna Potts says the art fair committee received more than 425 applications for the 105 artist openings in this year’s fair. The fun kicks off [...]
Tweet Some good news for local shoppers saddened by the closings last year of design shops Curious Sofa and Stoney Broke, Ltd.: A popular design store is relocating from the Plaza to The Village Shops. Create: Modern Home Decor owner Sherry George says she’s aiming to open for business in the space next to Minsky’s [...]
Tweet Chris Sutton and his K.C. Hopps group’s initial idea for a restaurant in Prairie Village was Mosaic, a Moroccan Mediterranean concept. But after about a year in business, the partners decided a different tack would better meet the needs of the local market. So after a month and a half remodel on the Mosaic [...]
Tweet The day the music teachers heard the Toon Shop was going out of business, there was a panic. “We didn’t know what was going on,” said Rick Janssen, who has taught piano lessons in the studios underneath the old Toon Shop space for decades. “There was all this talk about, ‘Take pictures of all [...]
Tweet An analysis of sales tax collections at the Village Shops and Corinth Square since the Community Improvement Districts went into effect January 1, 2011, suggests the 1 percent sales tax imposed by the CIDs hasn’t had a major impact on business at the centers. Overall state sales tax collections — excluding the 1 percent [...]
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 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 Listen: We’re big Charles Ferruzza fans. But we take exception with his decision to call out good-old Waid’s in a Fat City blog post earlier this week. As we’ve noted before, haute-cuisine, it is not. But sometimes the mood strikes for grilled cheese and probably-not-baked-from-scratch apple pie. Where else are you gonna go? Alas, [...]
Tweet This Chocolate Ale business is serious stuff. Rimann sold through its supply in 20 minutes. That’s right: 20 minutes. That’s one-third of one hour. Approximately fifteen times faster than it sold through fewer cases last year. Yowsers. A reader sent us this shot of the line outside Rimann’s door as people waited for the [...]
Tweet Two recent Prairie Village transplants are hoping PVPost.com readers can help bring their cat Oliver back home. Oliver sneaked out of the house Jan. 3, just two months after having moved into a home on 69th Street near the Village Shops. His co-owner Amanda says he’s only gotten out once before, and that he’s [...]
