A dilapidated shopping center the city of Shawnee and developers have striven for years to revitalize has finally landed an anchor tenant for the long-empty grocery store.
Kansas City-based El Mercado Fresco has eyes on a new store at the redeveloping Westbrooke Green shopping center.
Originally called Westbrooke Village, the old shopping center on the northeast corner of 75th Street and Quivira Road was once home to a variety of restaurant and retail businesses before they started closing around the Great Recession.
Developers and the city have worked for the past decade to try to revitalize the site and already made some progress with building new apartments on the north end.
El Mercado Fresco is coming to 7405 Quivira Road
- The store will occupy a space at the redeveloping Westbrooke Green shopping center in Shawnee, just off 75th Street and Quivira Road.
- The redevelopment at the site has been in the works for several years, and the space that El Mercado Fresco plans to occupy was once home to a Dillon’s grocery store.
- The store will also be near Walgreens, a bank, a liquor store and Mi Pueblito Meat Market on the northeast corner of 75th and Quivira.
El Mercado Fresco has several Kansas City area stores
- The Kansas City-based grocer offers a wide variety of Hispanic goods, from poultry and produce to seafood and baked goods.
- El Mercado Fresco’s ice cream brand, Fruitopia, is also featured in its stores.
- El Mercado Fresco has six stores on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro area, in addition to a store in Kansas City, Kansas.
The owner already has one Johnson County store
- World Fresh Market, a sister concept to El Mercado Fresco, opened in Overland Park last spring.
- In addition to Hispanic goods, World Fresh Market offers groceries from a wide variety of cultures.
- The store at 10303 Metcalf Ave. is the only World Fresh Market store in Johnson County, though there is also another new El Mercado Fresco store in the works in Olathe.
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