Prairie Village's Shopping Centers Got Their Evenings Back Before Their Errands

The new Prairie Village is already open for a Thursday night. You can get a beer on a patio with fire pits, hit golf simulators until close and eat a bowl at a fast-casual spot on 83rd Street. The new grocery store that the Shops of Prairie Village redevelopment was built around still hasn't opened, so the Saturday-morning run looks about the way it did last year.

That gap explains most of what you'll see at both centers this fall. First Washington Realty owns the Shops of Prairie Village, Corinth Square and Corinth Quarter, the separate center across 83rd Street. The company is finishing major projects at the Shops and at Corinth Quarter in the same year. In December 2025, First Washington senior vice president Greg Zike told the Prairie Village City Council that both were on track for 2026. The businesses that opened first are the ones you visit for fun. The anchor you rely on every week is still on its way.

The Old Macy's Opened for Leisure First

Big Grove Brewery was the first tenant to open in the former Macy's at 7060 Mission Road. It soft-opened on Tuesday, May 19, and held its grand opening Thursday, May 21. It wasn't built for a quick stop. The indoor-outdoor taproom has a patio with fire pits, yard games, TV screens and a children's play area, and dogs are welcome. The menu has poke bowls, stir-fried noodles, bao buns, burgers and fried chicken sandwiches. Besides beer, it serves wine, spirits, mocktails and nonalcoholic drinks.

GolfTRK opened next door at 7068 Mission Road in September. It has eight simulator bays and a PuttView practice green. Co-founder Sam Collins called Prairie Village "a great market for us."

The courtyard is finished too. Goebel Mitts, the contractor, lists its Shops of Prairie Village courtyard renovation as complete as of September 2026. The work included new gateways, trellises, hardscape, landscaping and fire features. It came in later than planned. In December, the landlord expected the courtyard and storefront work to wrap up in April or May, and by June the city's forecast had moved to late summer. The contractor's project page doesn't say whether the separate storefront-facade work is finished.

The project has been hard on the property. In May, Startland News described 17 months of construction, a transformer fire in 2025 and a courtyard phase that blocked entrances. With the courtyard done, the Shops are easier to walk through this fall than they have been in more than a year.

The Grocery Store Is the Piece Still Missing

In May, Hen House said it expected to open its new store on the lower level of the former Macy's in September. The current store would stay open until then. With September ending today, we found no announced opening day, grand-opening event or closing date for the current store at 6950 Mission Road, which is still listed with its daily hours. In late August, the Johnson County Post still described the new store as something Balls Food Stores was "in the middle of bringing" to the Shops.

The store is a big part of why this redevelopment happened. The flagship will be 40,000 square feet, more than twice the size of the current store, with larger grocery departments, a cheese island and a market grille. It will also have a sushi area, a floral department, an indoor-outdoor customer cafe and energy-efficient refrigeration. Mike Beal of Balls Food Stores told the city council the plan is to draw shoppers from across the state line, and said the store "is going to be the best grocery store anywhere close to this in Kansas City."

The move will set off one more change. Once Hen House leaves, the old building facing Mission Road gets redivided. The estimates have shifted. In December, Zike said five or six separate tenants. The city's June 2026 report said three or four. No tenants have been named for either version. Some current tenants told Startland they expect parking problems to continue, given how popular Big Grove is, plus the new Hen House and whatever replaces the old one.

Just outside the courtyard, French Market didn't wait. It opened an expansion next to its café at 6945 Tomahawk Road with a grab-and-go counter and separate checkout stations, and appears to have met its goal of opening by the end of August. Co-owner Noah Quillec said some customers used to see the line and "just walk out."

Corinth Followed the Same Order

At 83rd and Mission, the same landlord is filling space in the same order. Corinth Quarter was built on the old Corinth Square South parcel. Its first phase kept First Watch and replaced the former Mission Road Antique Mall building with new shop and restaurant space. Phase two was a facelift for the buildings facing 83rd Street near Panera. By December 2025, Zike said the exterior work was done, Club Pilates was opening next to Panera, and the other tenants would follow in spring and summer 2026.

Those tenants arrived along one stretch of 83rd Street. Brookside Barkery opened at 3935 W. 83rd St. and was open by late July, selling pet food and offering grooming. Owner Brian Murphy said the shop does best when customers need "healthy solutions" for their pets. Flower Child came two doors down at 3915 W. 83rd St. and served its first customers the week of Aug. 11. It serves bowls, salads and wraps.

"Full-service food in a fast-casual environment." That's how regional manager Kenny Barsalou describes Flower Child.

Across the street in Corinth Square, Casa Ama opened in June at 8228 Mission Road. It took the space Salty Iguana held for more than 30 years before closing in early 2025. Va Bene Italian Eatery, open at Corinth Square since 2020, closed at the end of July after it couldn't agree on a new lease with the center's owners. Its owners said some scratch-made pasta dishes will continue at Louie's Wine Dive and Gram & Dun. We found no announcement about what will go into Va Bene's space, and First Washington's leasing pages don't list vacancies by former tenant.

Corinth has kept its grocery anchor through all of this. First Washington's own listing names Hen House and CVS as the anchors at Corinth Square. So the store you shop at on 83rd Street hasn't moved. The new arrivals there are a pet shop, a fast-casual restaurant, a Mexican restaurant and, soon, a deli.

What October Holds

The next openings fall within a few weeks of each other:

1. Saturday, Oct. 10. Prairie Village's free 75th-anniversary party takes over Meadowbrook Park & Clubhouse at 9101 Nall Avenue. Lawn activities start at 4:30 p.m., Superstar Mafia plays at 5:30 p.m., and a drone show is set for around 7:30 p.m. Food trucks will sell dinner and dessert.
2. Mid-October, target only. La Fetta Delicatessen plans to open its second location at 3945 W. 83rd St. in Corinth Quarter. It will be open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and closed Sunday, like the original at 14363 Metcalf Ave. Owner Adam Bracco says the top seller is the Beach Boy, a spicy take on a club sandwich on focaccia, and the signature side is a pasta salad from his wife's family recipe.
3. Date to be announced. The new Hen House on the lower level of the former Macy's. The current store at 6950 Mission Road stays open until then.

Once La Fetta opens, a deli and a pet shop will sit side by side on Corinth Quarter's 83rd Street frontage, with Flower Child at 3915 a few doors away. In December, Zike said phase two had room for three more tenants, including one space suited for a restaurant. At the Shops, the brewery, the golf simulators and the finished courtyard are open now, and the grocery store will be the last of the big pieces to arrive.

When a 40,000-square-foot grocery store opens a few blocks from your house and the building it leaves behind becomes several new storefronts, it's reasonable to wonder how buyers will see your street. At Aubree Keck, we follow these openings as closely as we follow comps. Request a free home valuation and we'll show you how the changes at the Shops and Corinth fit into what your home is worth this fall.