Town Center Plaza is an open-air shopping center in

Leawood, Kansas Leawood is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 33,902. History 19th century After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the area ...

, United States. It is home to a number of upscale stores with few or no other locations in the Kansas City area, including

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, Purple Mattress, a

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Gallery store, and Sundance. It opened in 1996 with

Jacobson's Jacobson's was an American regional department store chain. Based in Jackson, Michigan, the chain operated primarily in Michigan and Florida, but also had stores in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Kansas. Jacobson's focused on apparel, fine jewelry ...

as the main

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. After Jacobson's closed in 2002, it was converted to

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in 2003 and

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in 2006. Another original tenant was

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, which became

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in 2004. It and nearby Town Center Crossing (formerly One Nineteen) are owned by

Washington Prime Group Washington Prime Group Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. The company is organized in Indiana with its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. From January 2015 to September 2016, the company had the name WP ...

, formerly WP Glimcher and before that,

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, who bought Town Center Plaza from

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for $139 million.

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