Concept renderings of an apartment building being proposed at Oak and Front streets in Bonner Springs, Kansas ... Oak St., the site of an old Thriftway grocery store, was demolished a few months ...

Shopping at Ben Franklin is also about the local economy. Say you spend a dollar in a local store; well ... and maybe some friends will help keep old Ben around.

“We figured no matter what we changed the name to, to the local people it’s always be the old Ben Franklin store, so we thought it was just better identification if we just kept the name.