The Great Mall of the Great Plains

The Great Mall of the Great Plains was a shopping mall located in Olathe, Kansas, United States. Opened in 1997, it was the largest outlet mall in the state of Kansas, and boasted over 150 stores and 10 anchors, laid out in a half-mile racetrack pattern. Amenities included indoor glow-in-the-dark miniature golf course, a food court, a Game Zone arcade, and a Dickinson Theatres movie theater with sixteen screens. Great Mall of the Great Plains was owned & managed by Glimcher Properties Trust until January 2009. Although the mall attracted one million customers during its first few months of operation, it struggled due to the economic downturn and changes in customer's shopping habits. After years of decline, the mall closed on September 18, 2015. Demolition on the mall began on July 11, 2016, and was finished in January 2017. While developers announced in January 2018 that a redevelopment called Mentum would replace the old mall, this never happened. In October 2021, Olathe-based company Garmin Ltd. indicated that it acquired the property, likely to expand its company's headquarters.

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