One of the first retail tenants at the new Merriam Grand Station development has begun to take shape.
Construction appears to have nearly wrapped up on a new Starbucks location at the site of the former Kmart department store just off Interstate 35 — just in time for the coffee shop to open later this summer, a Starbucks spokesperson told the Post this week.
Starbucks will operate at SM Parkway and Antioch Road
- The coffee chain is building a new store on the west side of the mixed-use Merriam Grand Station development, on the site of the former Kmart store, which was demolished in 2022 after being closed for nearly a decade.
- Across Shawnee Mission Parkway, Starbucks will operate near two other relatively new fast-casual chains, Caribou Coffee and Chipotle.
- Construction as a whole will wrap up on the overall development in 2026.
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Merriam Grand Station will feature other restaurants, retail
- Mediterranean chain CAVA and breakfast eatery HomeGrown also intend to open new locations at the prominent development.
- Iowa-based brewery and eatery 30hop also recently announced plans to occupy a space at the site.
- In its final form, the mixed-use development will also feature apartments and a public gathering space.
This marks the 50th Starbucks in total for Johnson County
- In terms of stand-alone Starbucks stores, the new Merriam location would serve as the 24th location in Johnson County.
- But the Seattle-based chain also operates several more stores within grocery stores and other venues across the county.
- Nearby, another Starbucks is in the works at the redeveloping Georgetown Plaza shopping center in Overland Park.
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Hi! I’m Lucie Krisman, and I cover local business for the Johnson County Post.
I’m a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, but have been living in Kansas since I moved here to attend KU, where I earned my degree in journalism. Prior to joining the Post, I did work for The Pitch, the Eudora Times, the North Dakota Newspaper Association and KTUL in Tulsa.