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Department store: Industry: Retail: Founded: 1887: Defunct: 2006: Fate: Acquired by Macy's: Successor: Macy's: Headquarters: Kansas City, Missouri: Products: Clothing, shoes, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares: Parent: Mercantile Stores (1960–1998) The May Department Stores Company (1998–2005) Federated Department ...
Today Jones remains Kansas City's only Downtown department store. There are also seven outlying suburban stores. This includes the newly leased and opened Independence store on 39th Street, east of Independence (formerly Macy's).
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- Former Locations
The Jones Store Co. (or simply Jones), was a chain of department stores in Missouri and Kansas founded in 1887 as an 800-ft store in Stafford Kansas, by J. Logan Jones. In 1902, a massive 500,000 sq ft 7-story building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri was leased by Jones. Despite many retailers leaving the downtown area, the downtown flagship store stayed open until early 1998.
The building would later be demolished in 2005. Locations of The Jones Store operating in malls were re-branded as Macy*s in September 2006, after a merger between May Dept Stores and Federated Dept Stores in 2005. This marked the second entry to Kansas City for Macy*s, after all their locations had been replaced by Dillard's in the mid-1980s.
Missouri
Kansas City - Downtown - 500,000 sq. ft. •Opened 1902 - Closed 1998 Kansas City - Metro North Mall - 244,000 sq. ft. •Opened 1976 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s) Kansas City - Bannister Mall •Opened 1980 - Closed 2005 Kansas City - Blue Ridge Mall •Opened 1963 - Closed 2003 Independence - Independence Square Independence - Independence Center - 193,000 sq. ft. •Opened late 1984 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s) (closed)
Kansas
Overland Park - Oak Park Mall - 183,000 sq. ft. •Opened 2002 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s) Overland Park - Metalf South Shopping Center - 259,000 sq. ft. •Opened 1967 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s) (closed) Prairie Village - Prairie Village Shopping Center - 160,000 sq. ft. •Opened 1958 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s) (closed) Leawood - Town Center Plaza - 123,000 sq. ft. •Opened 2004 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s) Topeka - West Ridge Mall - 189,000 sq. ft. •Opened 1988 - Closed 2006 (now Macy*s)
Nebraska
Omaha - Westroads Mall •Opened 1999 - Closed 2003
Control of the store passed to Claflin Company of New York, later to William Knott Co. and eventually to Mercantile Stores, Inc. By the late 1930s Jones had grown to be Kansas City's largest department store, despite its antiquated building. A multimillion dollar remodeling and expansion project was completed in 1958.
Oct 22, 2013 · Midtown KC Post. Remembering the Jones Store at 31st and Troost. Oct 22nd, 2013 – by midtownkcposter 0. The opening of the Jones Store at 31st and Troost in 1949. Over at the Kansas City public library site, there’s an interesting history of the founding of the Jones Store, once a prominent downtown and Midtown institution.
Dec 14, 2023 · My family went to The Jones Store Co. a lot when I was growing up. There was a beauty shop upstairs in the store we frequented. My mother went there for over 20 years until her beautician retired.
The Jones Store is pictured to the right. Main Street Decorations for 1928 Republican National Convention The intersection of Main Street and 12th Street decorated with patriotic banners and flags for the 1928 Republican National Convention at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri.
