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Published on May 15, 2008
Apparently, a hiking and biking trail will also be built near Tiffany Springs MarketCenter. I say "apparently" because I can't fathom that a planner would try to make something pleasurable out of a strip of land between a 585,000-square-foot "power center" and a cloverleaf highway interchange.
As a new JCPenney rises from the dirt near I-29, Metro North appears headed for do-not-resuscitate status. Of course, the mall was probably doomed anyway. Enclosed shopping centers, where the youth of America once found the latest fashions at Chess King and Merry-Go-Round, bite the dust with such frequency that they have their own Web site, Deadmalls.com.
Metro North is a throwback in more ways than one. It was built before Kansas City discovered its compulsion for giving incentives to PetSmart.
At least Metro North will die having stood on its own two feet. The same won't be written of its successors, which will be lucky to be peddling kitschy belt buckles 20 years from now.
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