Shopping Malls and Banking Empire
In the 1960s it branched into building shopping malls opening the French Market in Overland Park, Kansas. In 1964 they took over a struggling effort to build the East Hills Mall in St. Joseph, Missouri They operated under the name of MD Management.
In 1967 they opened Metcalf South Shopping Center which was the first large indoor mall in the Kansas City area. They would also establish a banking network Mission Bank in Mission, Kansas, Metro North State Bank in Kansas City, Missouri, Valley View State Bank in Overland Park Industrial State Bank in Kansas City, Kansas and Security Bank of Kansas City as well as Merchants Bank in Kansas City. The banks would finance their expansion.
Some of the projects would be done in conjunction with Copaken, White & Blitt.
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