INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) – The longtime abandoned Noland Fashion Square in Independence could see the rebirth of a lifetime.
After it was abandoned over 10 years ago, Monday night, the City of Independence held a study session and spoke about the Noland Fashion Square Redevelopment.
Noland Fashion Square is a strip mall that is completely empty and has been for some time.
One of the few businesses that line the shopping center include Custom Audio Creation.
George Walker said he’s worked for the business for almost five years, and is no stranger to the activity that occurs behind their shop.
“This area is slowly dying. We have had issues with homeless people going through our trash,” he said. “I think about this area here, it’s not really developing. And it hasn’t developed in the last 10 years.”
City Manager Zach Walker addressed this at Monday night’s session, telling the group, “It has involved calls for service for the fire department when fires have been started in the vacant structures. It has involved police calls for service. Whether that involved theft, or on a particularly bad day, when the police department found a deceased person inside one of the buildings.”
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Developers, Tri-Land Properties, said it’s been vacant for 15-20 years. They said they’re looking at a $100 million estimated investment to redevelop the area. They recently developed The Hub over at 291 and 23rd Street.
They are looking at relocating the Price Chopper at their I-70 and Noland Road location to Noland Fashion Square. Specifically, the grocery store would take over where a Toys ‘R’ Us once was.
McKeever’s who operates the I-70 store, said they are planning on closing it in February of 2028 and then opening a new store in April 2027.
Tri-Land Properties said the ‘bones’ for the redevelopment are there, but said they would have to completely gut the inside of the buildings.
They are hoping to have the City Council approve development agreements in February 2026 and then start construction next October. The developers are now working on an agreement with city staff to present it to council.
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