A new hardware store is on its way to southern Overland Park.

This week, Westlake Ace Hardware announced plans for a new store that will take over for a recently-shuttered Sears Home & Life department store.

“Kansas City is our home, so it’s always a thrill to open a new store here,” said Joe Jeffries, president and CEO of the Lenexa-based company.

The new Westlake Ace store will operate at 6327 W. 119th St.

• The hardware store will move into a 12,000-square-foot space at the Fountains Shopping Center in southern Overland Park, just east of Blue Valley Parkway.
• It will neighbor Sherwin-Williams Paint Store at the shopping center.
• The company aims to open the new Overland Park store during the second quarter of 2024, Westlake’s announcement said.

Sears Home & Life closed earlier this year

• Before its closure, the Sears on 119th Street operated in that Overland Park space for four years.
• When it closed in May, it was the last Sears-affiliated store in the Kansas City metro and the state of Kansas.
• The once-iconic department store retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018, while continuing to close thousands of stores across the country due to declining revenue.

This will be Westlake Ace’s fourth Overland Park location

• It would have been the fifth, but the company closed one of its Overland Park stores at 12202 College Blvd., at the end of August.
• Overall, the Lenexa-based company owns and operates nearly 30 stores across the Kansas City metro and more than 150 stores nationwide.
• The company opened a new Olathe store earlier this month, and plans to open another in Lee’s Summit, Missouri in early 2024.

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