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You don't have to leave the city limits to find somewhere to shop when you live in Lenexa. The area offers plenty of shopping centers, including Oak Park Mall with its more than 200 retailers and restaurants. There is also a new, mixed-use facility under construction in Lenexa called Lenexa City Center that will more than double the retail space in the city when it's completed.
When you buy one of the homes on acreage in Lenexa, Kansas, you don't have to worry about finding somewhere to eat. The city offers a myriad of restaurants, ranging from Kansas City-style barbecue joints like Zarda to ethnic eateries like Frontera Mexican Restaurant and Flavor of India.
Even when you own one of the homes with acreage in Lenexa, Kansas, it's still nice to visit a city park. The City of Lenexa doesn't disappoint. The city owns and manages more than 30 city parks with facilities that including recreational lakes, dog parks, children's playgrounds and picnic grounds.
Lenexa earns is nickname, "The City of Festivals." Among the annual events here are the fall Spinach Festival; the Great Lenexa Barbecue Battle, held each June; and the Christmas time Old Town Lighting Festival.
School age children in the Lenexa area attend the schools of one of three school districts--the award-winning Shawnee Mission School District, the Olathe School District or the De Soto School District, depending on their address. The area is also home to several private schools, including St. James Academy Catholic high school.
One nice thing about the housing market in Lenexa is that the area still has many homes with sufficient acreage. Homes on acreage in Lenexa, Kansas range from gentlemen's farms with five to ten acres to sprawling farms and ranches with dozens of acres. Many of these parcels have homes, barns and other out buildings already in place.
