Home Depot Opening at Liberty Town Center

Home Depot, the largest tenant in the new Liberty Town Center, isscheduled to open by the end of this month. The store encompasses 120,000 sfof the 450,000-sf shopping center. Liberty Town Center, in Liberty northeast of downtown, sits on 50 acreson the northwest quadrant of Interstate 35 and Missouri highway 152.

Two more big box stores are scheduled to open this year, as well as tworetail stores on pad sites and a couple of restaurants, one of whichwill be a Longhorn Steakhouse.Construction began last year. Phase one is complete and the second andfinal phase is expected to be finished next year.

“This is a regional draw site,” says David Block, senior vice president with Block &Company Inc. Realtors. “And the demos show thatit is one of the fastest growing areas in Kansas City.”The land was previously owned by the Peterson Co., which receivedtax abatements and TIF money to help finance the project.