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Thursday, Jul 31, 2003

Business

Posted on Tue, Jul. 29, 2003

CITYSCAPE: Many doors already open at Northland center

By JOYCE SMITH

Columnist

The Shops at Boardwalk won't have its grand opening until Oct. 10 to 12, but nearly half of the shops are already open or will open in the next 30 days in the new Northland center.

The 136,000-square-foot, 15-acre, open-air center is at Interstate 29, between Barry Road and Missouri 152. Access from Missouri 152 should be available in November.

Tenants and opening days:

Chico's, Coldwater Creek, J. Jill, Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Nextel Communications, Planet Sub and Yankee Candle Co. are open.

Chipotle Mexican Grill and Electronics Boutique will open Thursday.

Borders Books-Music will open Saturday.

Christopher & Banks, Claire's Boutiques, Icing by Claire's, Red Star Tavern and Talbots are scheduled to open Aug. 15.

Maurices will open Aug. 25.

Other tenants will be announced in late August. Several leases have been signed, but the tenants aren't ready to make announcements, and other leases are pending.

"Some of them will be national retailers new to town," said Dan Lowe, a partner in RED. "We're very excited about the leasing progress. Everyone was questioning how the Northland would respond to a lifestyle center as opposed to a typical strip center. But the retailers are just rocking up there."

RED opened BarryWoods Crossing in the mid-1990s, and it has been so successful that other retailers wanted to open in the area, Lowe said.

The Shops at Boardwalk is considered a rival to Zona Rosa, a new center planned for the west side of Interstate 29 at Barry Road.

Back-to-school sales

Consumers are expected to spend more than $14 billion on back-to-school merchandise, according to a new survey by the National Retail Federation in Washington.

The "NRF 2003 Back-to-School Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey" was conducted by BIGresearch for the federation. Respondents with school-age children will spend an average of $450.76 on back-to-school items, up from $441.60 in 2002. Nearly every family will buy clothes, shoes and school supplies, with nearly half of the consumers planning to buy electronics or computer-related equipment as well.

"The second half of 2003 is clearly poised for steady sales growth," said Tracy Mullin, president and chief executive officer of the National Retail Federation.

The organization credits the boost in back-to-school spending in part to the $13 billion in tax credit checks to be sent over the next few weeks to more than 25 million families.

Children also plan to spend some of their own money for back-to-school items. Teenagers will spend an average of $62.71.

Now open

Espresso & Appetizer House, 1729 S. Mur Len Road, Olathe, a family-owned business selling Turkish coffee, espresso-based drinks, fruit smoothies, Mediterranean appetizers, desserts and more. Jason and Jeannette Yousif, natives of Lebanon, are using many family recipes.

Cityscape runs Tuesdays and Fridays in the Business section. Do you have any tips for the column? Please call Joyce Smith at (816) 234-7750 or send e-mail to [email-masked].

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