Updated: Tuesday, 2:15 p.m.
The Houlihan’s restaurant at Leawood’s Town Center Plaza will close in March as the city moves forward with plans to redevelop the site into multiple other eateries.
Plans were recently submitted to the city of Leawood for the building currently housing Houlihan’s, a free-standing struture on the southern side of the Town Center Plaza complex, to be demolished and redeveloped into other restaurants.
A spokesperson for Houlihan’s confirmed the restaurant would close on March 27.
“We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our customers for their support over the years and our wonderful staff for their hard work and dedication to this location,” Scott Marshall, the company’s Chief Operating Officer, said in an emailed statement.
Houlihan’s is at 4900 W. 119th St.
- The restaurant occupies a space on the south side of the Town Center Plaza shopping center in Leawood.
- There, it operates between furniture stores RH and Pottery Barn at the shopping center.
- Houlihan’s has been a Kansas City staple since the restaurant’s first location opened at Kansas City, Missouri’s Country Club Plaza in 1972.
Houlihan’s has been in Leawood for multiple decades
- Property records show that Houlihan’s has been at Town Center Plaza since at least the mid-1990s.
- Aside from Leawood, the local brand has one other Johnson County location remaining, near the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park.
- Two more Johnson County locations in Fairway and Olathe closed in 2019, after the restaurant’s owners at the time filed for bankruptcy. (Today, Houlihan’s is owned by Texas-based Landry’s.)
- The company said it was currently working to place staff from the Leawood location at its other locations in Overland Park and Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
Other restaurants will replace Houlihan’s at the site
- A master development plan was submitted to the city of Leawood earlier this month to redevelop the site.
- Per city records, the project includes two buildings with four new restaurants on the site.
- Further information about which restaurants those might be was not immediately available.
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