Home and kitchen appliance company Warners’ Stellian is on its way to Johnson County.

The Leawood City Council on Monday approved initial plans for a new Warners’ Stellian store in southern Leawood. Officials are considering a fall opening for the store on the southwest corner of West 135th Street and Nall Avenue.

This is the latest addition to Cornerstone area

• Plans for the new store call for a roughly 12,000-square foot store at 5101 W. 135th St., on the Cornerstone of Leawood development, and near the future sites of MorningStar Senior Living and Rakar Dumpling House.
• The shopping center also neighbors the Parkway Plaza and Overland Park’s Prairiefire shopping centers.

Leawood store is the first Warner’s Stellian in Kansas

• The family-owned company based in Minnesota sells and services appliances like refrigerators, ovens, laundry machines, outdoor grills and air conditioning machines.
• The specialty store also ships appliances in recyclable material.
• Outside of its 10 stores in Minnesota, the company also has two stores in Iowa.

City still needs to approve a final plan

• Upon the city’s approval of the final plans in the coming months, owner Robert Warner said the store will aim for a fall opening.
• He said the company plans to open three or four more stores in the Kansas City area in the next three years.
• “This will be our full brand, our best displays and a more intimate shopping experience,” Warner said. “It’s just not quite as easy for a big company to deliver the kind of experience that we can as a small family business.”

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