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In 1895, Jones opened a store at 6th and Main in the River Market neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1902 Jones leased a 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m 2 ) seven-story building that took up an entire block at 12th Street and Main across the street from Bernheimer Bros. & Co.
The city limits of Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri bisected The Jones Store Co. on the northeast corner of the store. During the 1960s, Blue Ridge Mall was the most popular shopping center in the Kansas City Metropolitan area and in 1971, the J. C. Penney store expanded moving from the south court of the mall to become an ...
The Jones Store (Kansas City), absorbed by May Department Stores 1998, sold to Macy's chain 2006; The Paris (Kansas City) Kmart (St. Louis) Newman's , acquired by parent company of Heer's of Springfield in the early 1980s, closed in 1995; Scruggs Vandervoort & Barney , closed in 1967; Stix, Baer, Fuller (St. Louis), acquired by Dillard's in 1983
From the early 1990s until last year, a grocery store was the anchor of this shopping center. The space has been vacant since January 2023. Kansas City grocery store closed a year ago.
Kortney Lee, founder of Community Groceries, poses for a photo outside of his new store on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, in Kansas City. Nick Wagner/nwagner@kcstar.com
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In the early 1980s, Bannister Mall was the "place to go" with a draw over a large area that was mostly from South Kansas City, suburban Jackson County, Missouri, and Johnson County, Kansas. In 1988-1990, an area north and east of the mall called Benjamin Plaza was added to the commercial retail area. In the late 1980s, bus service from mid-town ...
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