Not sarcastic. I did not know that. It was a huge place.
First time I saw a Walmart that big.

What else is there now?

I have not lived in KC since 1995

The mall is just gone. Empty field is all. The surrounding area where the Walmart and other strip mall stores was is now a Cerner campus.

It's now a huge office complex for Cerner Corp. The mall was razed years ago. The land was originally a horse riding ranch called Benjamin Stables. Warpaint was stabled there in the 1960 snd 1970s.

Its weird as hell, I go to Independence Center frequently, it's not in a bad area so I don't really get what's going on.

tearing down and vacating a walmart is not an easy task either

It’s probably just a phase, but they have had incidents over the years.

Your right, it’s not a bad area so that will help keep it alive.

The city has a lot invested in that area, so I would imagine they would work hard to protect it.

Wasn't that Walmart called Hypermart or something like that? I remember that place being huge, but didn't frequent that area too much.

Yeah it was, think it was one of the first ones with a grocery store and was a precursor to the Supercenters.

Topeka had a Hypermart too

It was the first.

Walmart understood their mistake and couldn't wait to unload those Hyper properties. The scaled-back supercenters soon followed eliminating appliances and other things that weren't popular but kept the grocery.

Srvy... more good info. I did not know that either.

Apologies in advance for linking to KCTV5, but it was the only place that I could find a picture of Mr. Toy Gun Music Video Man.....

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