Groundbreaking held for new bank building on Leavenworth Road

Security Bank officers, Unified Government Commissioners Gayle Townsend and Jane Philbrook, with Lou Braswell, executive director of the Leavenworth Road Association, participated in the groundbreaking for a new Security Bank facility at 55th and Leavenworth Road, Kansas City, Kansas. (Photo by Deniese Davis, treasurer and co-director of Leavenworth Road Association)

by Lou Braswell, Leavenworth Road Association

The groundbreaking for a new Security Bank facility was held at noon Thursday, April 22, at 55th and Leavenworth Road, Kansas City, Kansas.

Formerly the site of a car wash, the location is between a Church’s chicken and a new gas station on Leavenworth Road.

It will replace the bank building at the shopping center at 60th and Leavenworth Road. The bank has been at Sunset Plaza – Westgate Center for decades.

Expected opening of the new building is in fall 2021.

On hand for the groundbreaking were Security Bank officers and Unified Government commissioners, with the Leavenworth Road Association.