Indian Springs Mall
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Indian Springs Mall, also known as Indian Springs Shopping Center, was an enclosed mall in Kansas City, Kansas
. The building still stands but it is now occupied only by a few local government offices and a police station. Until its closure, it was also home to The Children's Museum. The high crime rate and other factors common to the indoor mall format led to the eventual decline and closing of Indian Springs. It became a dead mall
in the mid 1990s but the doors remained open for over ten more years, despite the lack of retailers. There are now plans to demolish the building and build an open-air shopping center, but the current economic situation has delayed these plans. The original anchors of Indian Springs Mall are Dillard's
, JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward
. Before the original mall was shuttered in 2001, Dillard's left the Indian Springs Mall first in 1997, followed by JCPenney later that year due to an underperforming store, and finally Montgomery Ward in early 2001 due to national chain's bankruptcy with other retailers are shuttered that year. As of 2011 nothing has taken place yet as for the conversion.
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
. The building still stands but it is now occupied only by a few local government offices and a police station. Until its closure, it was also home to The Children's Museum. The high crime rate and other factors common to the indoor mall format led to the eventual decline and closing of Indian Springs. It became a dead mall
Dead mall
A dead mall or greyfield is a shopping mall with a high vacancy rate or a low consumer traffic level, or that is dated or deteriorating in some manner. Many malls in the United States are considered "dead" when they have no surviving anchor store or successor that could serve as an entry into or...
in the mid 1990s but the doors remained open for over ten more years, despite the lack of retailers. There are now plans to demolish the building and build an open-air shopping center, but the current economic situation has delayed these plans. The original anchors of Indian Springs Mall are Dillard's
Dillard's
Dillard's, Inc. is a department store chain in the United States, with 330 stores in 29 states. Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dillard's locations are concentrated in Texas and Florida; with a major presence in other states including Arizona, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri,...
, JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is an online retailer that carries the same name as the former American department store chain, founded as the world's #1 mail order business in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward, and which went out of business in 2001...
. Before the original mall was shuttered in 2001, Dillard's left the Indian Springs Mall first in 1997, followed by JCPenney later that year due to an underperforming store, and finally Montgomery Ward in early 2001 due to national chain's bankruptcy with other retailers are shuttered that year. As of 2011 nothing has taken place yet as for the conversion.