Antioch Center
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| Coordinates | 39°12′05″N 94°32′52″W / 39.2013°N 94.5477°WCoordinates: 39°12′05″N 94°32′52″W / 39.2013°N 94.5477°W |
| Opening date |
1956 |
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| Management |
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| Owner |
Antioch Redevelopment Partners, LLC |
| No. of stores and services |
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| No. of anchor tenants |
2 |
| Total retail floor area |
800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) |
| Parking |
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| No. of floors |
1 |
| Website |
Antioch Center was an enclosed shopping mall located in Kansas City North, Missouri, United States. The mall opened in 1956, and was once home to the first location for ShowBiz Pizza Place, a pizzeria chain that would later become known as Chuck E. Cheese's.[1] It also housed a branch of the Forum Cafeterias, the chain's first suburban location.
At the time of demolition in January 2012, Antioch Center was a dead mall, with only two anchor stores, Burlington Coat Factory and Sears, and one inline store with an exterior entrance. Because of the mall's high vacancy rate, it was demolished and is slated for redevelopment.[2]
[edit] History
The mall began business as an open-air shopping center in 1956, with about 80 store spaces on two levels.[3][4] In 1974, a Sears store was added [3]. Further renovation came in 1978, when the mall was fully enclosed.[5] After the enclosure, most of the stores had both an interior entrance, as well as an exterior entrance. Macy's (Kansas City division) was an original anchor store. It was converted to the Dillard's nameplate in 1986 and that of Burlington Coat Factory in 1992. Other anchor stores that operated at the mall included Levitz Furniture, as well as Payless Cashways, a home improvement store.[6][7]
In mid-1990s, the mall had begun a downward spiral. The mall's only remaining stores are Catherine's Plus Sizes, and the anchors Sears and Burlington Coat Factory. Plans were announced in October 2004 to rebuild the dying mall as a 450,000-square-foot (42,000 m2) open-air, mixed use complex, consisting of several big box stores.[8][9]. This redevelopment was stymied by the economic recession of the late 2000s and has not been carried out. This left Antioch Center in an ever-advancing state of decay and neglect, until it was finally demolished in January, 2012.
[edit] Competition
- Metro North Mall - opened in 1976
- Zona Rosa - opened in 2004
[edit] References
- ^ ShowBiz Pizza History[unreliable source?]
- ^ Hanson, Gene (2007-11-08). "Antioch Center down to five tenants". KCCommunitynews.com. http://kccommunitynews.com/articles/2007/11/08//liberty_tribune/business//b.lt.biz.antioch.tenants.txt. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ a b Theater to anchor Northland project
- ^ Shopping Centers Today
- ^ Local History - Kansas City Public Library
- ^ Antioch Center likes independent stores
- ^ Payless Cashways (Google Finance)
- ^ Antioch Center's rebirth (brief article)
- ^ Merry Xmas From the Dead Malls
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