Lowe's Home Improvement opened last week and Costco Warehouse Club is scheduled to open this summer. Also committed to the center are CompUSA, Blue Ridge Bank & Trust, Panera Bread, Wendy's, McDonald's and an International House of Pancakes.

Eastland Center is being developed on 212 acres that was previously the Crackerneck Golf Course and nearby farmland. When complete, the center will have 550,000 sf of retail space, 1.3 milion sf of Class A office space, three hotels and several restaurants. The project is estimated to cost about $245 million.

Retail stores should be complete in about two years, with main office structures up in about three, according to Bruce Hahl, Independence community development director. Nearly $40 million in Tax Increment Financing money was used for the project, including $11 million for public facilities.

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