The owners of The Furniture Mall chain might need to think about changing their jingle.
As many television watchers know, it’s the Furniture Mall of Kansas that makes you go “OHH Yeah!,” but the founding Winter family is set to open its second Furniture Mall of Missouri by the end of the year, in the Northland’s Metro North Crossing shopping center at U.S. Route 169 and Missouri Route 152.
The new 150,000-square-foot Furniture Mall of Missouri is going into a former Macy’s department store, currently having a mega sale down to the fixtures, and management expects to start renovating the building in April.
A former Macy’s is also the home of the first Furniture Mall of Missouri, in Lee’s Summit, which opened in the Summit Fair shopping center, in 2022.
In the 125,000-square-foot Lee’s Summit location, you will find what the company says are “nearly 1,000 rooms of furniture and mattresses on display,” as well as the frozen custard and coffee-serving Howdy Café. You can also enter a mini museum that tells the story of the Winter family and how they started the business from a gas station in Emporia in 1933 before becoming a furniture retailer.
There are currently two Furniture Mall of Kansas locations, one in Olathe, at 119th Street and Interstate 35, and one in Topeka. Kansas’ state capital is where the Winters relocated from Emporia to launch the Furniture Mall concept in 2013.
At the new Northland location, the Winters have the advantage of some potential customers even living on site. The $250-million Metro North Crossing includes the Woodstone luxury apartments, along with its current commercial tenant mix. Dutch Bros., Hawaiian Brothers, Thai Orchid and Whataburger are among the eateries currently at Metro North, while golf-entertainment venue T-Shotz is another draw.
IAS Partners, the owners of Metro North, redeveloped it from the former enclosed Metro North Mall.
