Metcalf South Shopping Center
Metcalf South Shopping Center was a shopping mall in Overland Park, Kansas. It opened in 1967, near a large, unique department store called the French Market, which later became a strip mall anchored by Kmart and Hancock Fabrics. The Metcalf South mall itself originally featured two main floors of retail space, although later a third floor of retail space was added, which in recent years became home to office space. It featured two anchor stores, later taken over by Macy's. Sears and the Glenwood Arts movie theater remained open in later years, while Macy's announced the closure of its Metcalf South store in January 2014.
After more than a decade of decline that left Metcalf South a dead mall, the property was purchased in February 2014 by Lane4 Property Group and The Kroenke Group. The owner of Lane4 stated it is likely the mall will be razed. On September 19, 2014, Metcalf South Mall closed.
The movie theater closed on January 25, 2015.
In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Metcalf South Shopping Center, into Seritage Growth Properties.
Demolition of the Metcalf South Mall began on April 21, 2017.
Sears started the store closing sale on June 30, 2017 and closed September 17, 2017.
As of July 2019, a brand new Lowe's occupies the space that Glenwood Arts and Macy's held at Metcalf South Mall.
The old Sears store is now being demolished.
A new ice cream parlor Andy's Frozen Custard opened in July 2019.
In 2020, construction on a Longhorn Steakhouse began and opened in 2021. Arvest Bank also completed construction in 2021. As of 2024, the space had added additional food and convenience outlets like Whataburger, Chick-fil-A, and QuikTrip. A residential senior living apartment building now stands on the east side of the property.
Development
Metcalf South was developed by local entrepreneur Sherman Dreiseszun and his company MD Management, who envisioned it as a sort of utopian city, one with a "full-range of stores, restaurants, playgrounds, and parks," where "people shop, work, relax, meet, and have fun…attend meetings, inspect scientific or cultural exhibits, and maybe even dance" — all this withperfect weather year-round.
The shopping center, a two-level structure encompassing approximately 601,800 leasable square feet and 60 stores, was built by Martin-Salsbury Constructors, Inc. of Topeka. The building and parking lots sat on a 50-acre parcel 7.3 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City, Kansas, and a short distance north of an interchange with a newly completed section of Interstate 435.