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Midtown Marketplace Nears Completion

KANSAS CITY, MO-A Costco will open in January, and a Home Depot in February, as part of the biggest shopping center to open in decades in Midtown Kansas City.

By Judie Burkhalter | Updated on December 10, 2000

KANSAS CITY, MO-Midtown Markeplace will be opening soon and the competition amongwholesale clubs and building supply stores will heat up.Costco Wholesale Club will open its 150,000-sf store, at thecorner of Main Street and Linwood Boulevard, on January 12. Home Depot willopen its 120,000-sf lumber yard and home improvement store onFebruary 1. Both are part of a $46-million tax increment financingpackage that also brought the Mill Street Station shopping center toMidtown within the past three years.

“The $46 million was for both projects and included everything fromland acquisition to infrastructure improvements, site development andactual construction,” says Carrie Flack, planner with the city ofKansas City. “It’s nice to have the MidtownMarketplace ready to open. It was a plan that was in the works fornearly 15 years.”

Costco, offering bulk buy discounts, will be bumping elbows with thelikes of Sam’s Wholesale Club, which was introduced to the local marketback in the early 1980s when Wal-Mart launced its warehouse chains.Sam’s has four area locations, with stores in Lenexa, Independence,Gladstone and Grandview. Another is planned to open this summer inOverland Park. Costco, based in Issaquah, WA, is new to the market,but has been aggressively seeking expansion in the Midwest.

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