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Compare Foods and T.J. Maxx are among the businesses closing in an Independence Boulevard shopping center as plans move forward to widen the road and convert more of it into an expressway.
At the Independence Shopping Center at Independence and Idlewild Road, T.J. Maxx's last day of business is Jan. 14, according to a sign at the store. A sale is under way.
The Compare Foods in the same shopping center is already shut down. An employee with the chain directed customers to the store's new, larger store at 3600 N. Sharon Amity Road, near Central Avenue.
A leasing manager with First Allied, which handles leasing at the shopping center, didn't return a phone message seeking comment about the shopping center's future. The shopping center was built in the 1970s and has seen a succession of major tenants come and go.
The $172 million project that starts this summer will widen a mile and a half of Independence between North Sharon Amity and Wallace roads and add interchanges. It's is the fifth phase of a 22-year-old project to turn Independence into an expressway.
Other businesses along Independence are joining Compare and T.J. Maxx as the road construction project nears. Some, such as McDonald's and Sam's Mart/Shell at Idlewild, are slated for demolition.
Many ended up shuttered along those parts of Independence that became an expressway. A new Walmart SuperCenter is set to open on Independence in place of the former Amity Gardens Shopping Center near Albemarle Road.
