Andover's Heritage Square Is Picking Its Restaurants One at a Time. What's Open, and What's Next?

The approved plan for the Heritage's newest restaurant calls for two drive-through lanes, a parallel bypass lane, waiting areas for cars in the drive-through, and a monument sign facing U.S. 54. Andover's Site Plan Review Committee approved that layout for Culver's at 422 S. Homestead Dr. on April 7, 2026, according to the city's meeting minutes. The building spreads across two parcels in the Heritage Mixed Use development. Outdoor patio seating is allowed outright under the Heritage's planned unit development rules, while elsewhere in Andover it usually needs a conditional use permit.

That site plan shows how the Heritage works. The 100-plus acres at Kellogg and Yorktown Parkway are developing as two different places. One faces the highway and is built for cars. The other is Heritage Square, a walkable block with apartments over storefronts, and its developer has said publicly that he is filling it slowly and on purpose. Culver's belongs to the first place. The pace of the second is set by Jerry Jones.

The Kellogg side is built for traffic

The Wichita Eagle reported in April that franchisee Ryan Vaughn, who also owns the Culver's in Derby, would open the Andover location in December, with a double drive-through like the one in Derby. The Eagle's April 30 dining roundup listed the same December target for the Heritage location, near Kellogg and Yorktown Parkway. For anyone reading this in early November, December is next month.

Jones told the Eagle that the restaurant is "going to be very visible" and will "occupy an important location in the development." He also said Yorktown "was designed to be the main feeder to the Heritage." The same article says Culver's will stay separate from what Jones called "the more pedestrian-oriented areas around Heritage Square."

This side of the development already has a track record. Dutch Bros Coffee was open along Kellogg, east of Heritage Square and across from the YMCA, by the time the Eagle surveyed the Heritage in December 2024. That report also said QuikTrip had bought a lot nearby and had no set opening date. It counted about eight sites left along the highway, depending on how they're divided, plus a possible hotel site with no deal yet. By April 2026, the Eagle still described the QuikTrip lot across Yorktown from Culver's as the place where the store "eventually" will go.

So the highway pads take national brands with drive-throughs and keep them visible from U.S. 54. Coffee was first, then a burger and custard chain, and a convenience store will come whenever QuikTrip decides.

Heritage Square fills in more slowly

The square has grown one tenant at a time since October 2024. The developer's site advertises 50,000 square feet of street-level commercial space with resort-style apartments above, and says space is still available for lease. Here is the order things have opened, as reported:

Livingston's Cafe was the first commercial tenant at Heritage Square. Its own site describes it as a breakfast and lunch cafe built around local flavors and ingredients. Social Tap Drinkery came next as the square's second restaurant. It runs separate menus for its WSU, Andover, and Greenwich locations, and its site lists the Andover location as open. Culver's, on the highway frontage, is restaurant No. 3 for the whole development.

Urban Nails shows what the square draws even with few tenants. Owner Atkinson told the Eagle that many people come to the development just to walk around, and that they kept asking when her salon would open. She planned a small-team soft opening and rents five spaces inside the salon to other beauty and wellness businesses. When the story ran, two were filled, one for lash services and one for facials and skin care. She described her goal as "a mini beauty hub inside my salon."

Three restaurants in, and a wish list

Asked what food Andover has to look forward to after Culver's, Jones told the Eagle:

"At this point now, we're being very strategic about what types of restaurants we bring in because we want them to complement each other and not compete with each other."

Then he named the gaps he wants to fill:

• A dessert business with ice cream and baked goods
• A cocktail bar serving tapas or other light fare
• Upscale restaurants, "which we've heard over the years that there's a lot of demand for"

He said some Heritage sites would be ideal for those restaurants, and added, "We're working on it, and we're going to be picky."

Set that list against what's already open. Livingston's covers breakfast and lunch, and Social Tap brings a taproom. Culver's, per the Eagle, makes fresh frozen custard about every hour through the day. Jones still put an ice cream and baked goods shop on his wish list in the same interview that announced Culver's. The cocktail bar and the upscale dinner spots are different from anything there now. Each item on the list is a kind of place the square doesn't have yet. "Complement, not compete" means one of each, added when the right tenant turns up.

That's also why the square changes slowly. A developer who needs a specific dessert shop and a specific cocktail bar can wait for them. The Heritage site pitches its street-level space for lease, along with the development's location between Andover's two main north-south roads and next to what the developer calls one of the busiest Dillons stores in Kansas.

The plaza between seasons

The other part of Heritage Square that works on a calendar is outdoors. Kansas Grown Farmers Market ran its first season at the Heritage this year. The Eagle reported in February that the east market would run May 23 through Sept. 26, a shorter season than the original market at 21st and Ridge Road, which runs from early March through the end of October. Organizers said they hoped to bring the west market's mix of seasonal produce, meat, baked goods, honey, salsa, jam, and crafts to Andover. The Heritage market won't be back until next season.

For the rest of the year, Heritage Park Plaza is open space that anyone can book. The developer describes it as a place for markets, celebrations, games, and other outdoor community events, and reservations go through the City of Andover. A December 2024 Eagle photo caption called the plaza "a sort of downtown Andover gathering spot." If you're planning a small outdoor get-together, a birthday, or a team photo, you book it with the city, not the developer.

What December changes

When Culver's opens, the Heritage gains a fourth food and drink option counting Dutch Bros. It also gains a second business on the Kellogg frontage that draws cars off U.S. 54 onto Yorktown, the road Jones calls the main feeder. The approved plan, with two drive-through lanes and a bypass lane, is meant to keep that traffic moving through the lot.

On the walkable side, Heritage Square will still have Livingston's for breakfast and lunch, Social Tap for a beer, a salon with rented beauty and wellness rooms, and street-level space for lease. The dessert shop, cocktail bar, and upscale restaurants on Jones's list have no announced tenants yet.

If you live near the Heritage and want to know how a new tenant on the square, or a busier Yorktown, affects what homes nearby are worth, Pam & Ashley follow this corner closely. Book a Free Consultation and we'll walk through what's open, what's planned, and how it shows up in your neighborhood's numbers.