Kansas City Money and Shopping

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• Country Club Plaza www.countryclubplaza.com.
• Oak Park Mall (suburban) www.thenewoakparkmall.com Largest indoor mall in the region.
• Brookside Shops www.brooksidekc.org local non-chain shops and non-chain restaurants. Grocery stores, bar, sandwiches.
• 39th Street West www.39thstreetwest.com located roughly between State Line Rd. and Southwest Trafficway.
• Halls
• Crown Center
• Great Mall of the Great Plains (in Olathe, KS)
• Zona Rosa
• 119th Street (Suburban Kansas) The area east of the Sprint HQ is home to a number of shopping complexes like Town Center Plaza. The area is also home to two new centers: Leawood Park Place and One Nineteen. Park Place is a highly dense, mixed use suburban town center catering to local retailers.

• Antiques: KC has many unique things you will not find on the coasts. The best places to poke around are estate sales and whatnot in the outlying farm areas -- they throw nothing away. Check out the River Market Antique Mall for 4 stories of vendors selling something between trash and treasure. The West Bottoms warehouses host antique and estate sale auctions on the weekends, look to the KC Star for details.

• Crossroads Arts District www.crossroadscommunityassociation.org Highly inspiring mix of shops ranging from apparel to home design. Shops are scattered throughout this gritty district of former warehouses and industrial spaces. The district is also one of the largest collections of art galleries and studios in the Midwest.
• The Legends www.legendsshopping.com.

• City Market Area: once called the River Market (and before that the River Quay back when mobsters used to end up in trunks with bullet holes). Like Times Square, they chased out the venerable old peep shows and dive bars. Now the neighborhood hosts a farmer's market, live music during the summer from major acts, and the Steamboat Arabia Museum which hosts the largest collection of prewar silver in the world -- recovered from a large paddlewheeler that went down in the 1830's. The River/City Market area also has the River Market Brewery as well.

• www.countryclubplaza.com
• www.thenewoakparkmall.com
• www.brooksidekc.org
• www.39thstreetwest.com
• www.crossroadscommunityassociation.org
• www.legendsshopping.com