The Great Mall of the Great Plains

The Great Mall of the Great Plains

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = The Great Mall of the Great Plains


caption =
location = Olathe, Kansas, USA
opening_date = 1997
developer =
manager =
owner = Glimcher Properties Trust
number_of_anchors =
floor_area = convert|783010|sqft|m2|0|abbr=on
floors = 1
website = http://www.greatmallgreatplains.com
parking =

The Great Mall of the Great Plains is a shopping mall located in Olathe, Kansas, United States. The largest outlet mall in the state of Kansas,cite news |first=Stephan |last=Roth |title=Two big anchors plan to go away from Great Mall |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2002/12/30/story4.html |publisher=Kansas City Business Journal |date=December 27, 2002 |accessdate=2007-08-01 ] the Great Mall currently features over 80 stores and restaurants. Burlington Coat Factory, Famous Labels, Foozles Bookstore, Group USA Clothing Company, Steve & Barry's University Sportswear, and VF Outlet are the mall's anchor stores;cite web |url=http://www.glimcher.com/controller/r5i/psm/file/view/Great%20Mall_LSsm.pdf?id=443 |title=The Great Mall of the Great Plains leasing information |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=Glimcher.com] amenities include indoor glow-in-the-dark miniature golf course, a food court, two arcades, and a Dickinson Theatres movie theater with sixteen screens. Great Mall of the Great Plains is managed by Glimcher Properties Trust.

History

Great Mall of the Great Plains was co-developed by Glimcher Properties Trust and Jordan Robert Perlmutter & Co. The mall was intended to feature a "value oriented megamall" with a mix of outlet stores, traditional mall stores, big box retail, and entertainment venues, comparable to malls developed by the Mills Corporation (which is now part of Simon Property Group).cite web |url=http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_great_expectations/ |title=Great Expectations |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=Retail Traffic Mag.com] cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/1997/08/11/focus4.html |title=Work bustles at Great Mall of the Great Plains |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=Bizjournals.com] Construction began on the Great Mall of the Great Plains in 1996. [cite news |title=What's Happening at... The Great Mall of the Great Plains |work=Kansas City Star |page=7 |date=1996-05-29 |accessdate=2007-08-17]

Originally slated to open in March 1997, the mall did not open until August 14 of that year, due to leasing issues. [cite news |title=Olathe mall's debut delayed The Great Mall of the Great Plains to open its convert|1200000|sqft|m2 of retail space in August. |work=Kansas City Star |page=B4 |date=1997-01-08 |accessdate=2007-08-17] [cite web |url=http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/1997/08/18/story8.html?jst=cn_cn_lk |title=Great Mall project helps put Glimcher on national map |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=BizJournals.com] Upon its opening, the mall featured several anchor stores: Linens 'n Things, Marshalls, Burlington Coat Factory, Oshman's SuperSports USA, Marshalls, Group USA Clothing Company, Foozles Bookstore, and Dillard's clearance center (the first such clearance center in the chain). Other original features of the mall included a family entertainment center called Jeepers!, a food court, and a Dickinson movie theater. Great Mall of the Great Plains opened with 150 stores laid out in a half-mile "racetrack"; the mall was also billed at the time as the largest outlet mall in the state of Kansas.

In an early 2008 Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Glimcher Realty Trust expressed a desire to sell the Great Mall of the Great Plains. [cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/02/11/daily21.html |title=Owner wants to sell Great Mall in Olathe |accessdate=2008-02-11 |format=html |work=BizJournals.com]

Closures

Despite a highly successful opening which attracted more than one-and-a-half million visitors, Great Mall of the Great Plains saw its success waning with time, due in part to a retail saturation in the market. [cite web |url=http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/1999/11/29/story3.html |title=Retailers say things aren't so great at Olathe's mall |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=BizJournals.com]

Although Off 5th opened as an additional anchor store in 1999, [cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-19-1999/0001048366&EDATE= |title=OFF 5TH Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet Newest Anchor at Glimcher Realty Trust's The Great Mall of The Great Plains |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=PRNewswire.com] the mall lost three anchor stores soon afterward. Dillard's closed its clearance center in 2001, and was soon replaced with VF Outlet. [cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2001/08/06/daily6.html |title=VF Factory Outlet will replace Dillard's at Great Mall |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=BizJournals.com] A year later, both Oshman's and Linens 'n Things closed as well, as did Off 5th.Fact|date=September 2007 DSW Shoe Warehouse was briefly added as an anchor store as well, but it soon closed.Fact|date=August 2007 Marshalls also relocated to a nearby strip center in 2005, [cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmtkc/is_200603/ai_n16096154 |title=Cityscape: Great Mall's loss Olathe Pointe's gain |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=html |work=FindArticles.com] while Steve & Barry's opened in 2005, and Famous Labels opened in 2007.Fact|date=August 2007

References

External links

* [http://greatmallgreatplains.com/ Official website]


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