He said the project would have upscale stores and restaurants for regional and local shoppers already attracted to the area by the Country Club Plaza.

Nichols also built the nearby Country Club Plaza, which was the first shopping center in the United States designed to accommodate patrons arriving by automobile.

Novels set in the Country Club District between the 1920s to the 1940s, with frequent references to the district and the Country Club Plaza.

The new store is located in the Country Club Plaza; an upscale retail/dining district located south of downtown Kansas City.

Country Club Plaza from Project for Public Spaces (PPS)

The other is the older, highly successful Country Club Plaza, a development of restaurants, shops and fashionable department stores in midtown, about three miles farther south.

An occasional sophisticate will dismiss the district - officially, the Country Club Plaza - as the ultimate in urban kitsch.

Country Club Plaza - perhaps the first shopping mall in the U.S.

In the 1920s, Nichols created the Country Club Plaza, a shopping district and neighborhood along Brush Creek modeled after the city of Seville, Spain.

This Frank Lloyd Wright building sits across from the Country Club Plaza's main shopping district, located on Main at East 46th Street.