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In memoriam — Laney’s Get Down. A short-lived, 1970s-themed Southern-comfort chicken restaurant, bar, and live-country-music venue on the corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in Kansas City’s Westport. Opened in December 2024 by the Nashville-based Tin Roof group and closed at the end of March 2026 after barely over a year — Tin Roof’s CEO said it simply “wasn’t working out as well as we would’ve liked.” This page is a record and tribute to a closed Kansas City spot.

Description

Laney’s Get Down was a 1970s-themed Southern-comfort chicken restaurant, bar, and live-music venue at 4057 Pennsylvania Ave., on the corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania Avenue in the heart of historic Westport.12 It positioned itself as a “food-first” room built around farm-fresh, locally sourced fried chicken — buttermilk tenders, fried-chicken dishes, made-from-scratch biscuits and sides — paired with a full bar of local drafts and cocktails.23

The room leaned hard into a retro country-and-Southern identity: live country bands every Friday and Saturday night, a “Solo Hour” promotion (a solo cup for a buck during set windows), a large patio, and a wall of TVs that made it a group-and-game-day destination.43 Restaurant-week menus showed the kitchen’s range — buttermilk fried tenders in a Caesar, fried chicken folded into Alfredo, garlic mashed potatoes, fried Brussels sprouts, and desserts like a brownie sundae and a peaches-and-cream waffle.3

Ownership and history

Laney’s Get Down opened in December 2024, operated by the Nashville-based Tin Roof group — the same hospitality company behind the neighboring Tin Roof bar in Westport — with Bob Franklin serving as CEO.12 The concept took over a Westport address with a turnover-heavy recent history: the space had previously housed Mickey’s Hideaway (closed late 2022) and, before that, McCoy’s Public House, a Westport mainstay for roughly two decades.5

The name of the individual or local figure “Laney” behind the branding is not publicly documented in available sources, and no KC-based founder is named separately from the Tin Roof corporate operator.

Closure

Laney’s Get Down closed at the end of March 2026, after a run of roughly fifteen months.1 CEO Bob Franklin framed the closure plainly, telling press the concept “wasn’t working out as well as we would’ve liked,” and gestured at neighborhood goodwill — noting that “longtime tenants in the neighborhood want to see the neighborhood do well.”1 Tin Roof said it would continue operating its adjacent Westport bar.

The 4057 Pennsylvania space was slated to be taken over by another tenant; Franklin declined to detail the incoming concept at the time of the closure reporting.16 Yelp and Instagram both flagged the location as CLOSED following the late-March shutdown.76

Legacy

Laney’s Get Down is a record of how fast a Westport concept can come and go: a fully built-out, 1970s-themed chicken-and-country room from an experienced Nashville operator that still couldn’t hold the corner for more than about a year. Its short life sits inside a longer pattern at 4057 Pennsylvania — McCoy’s two-decade run, then Mickey’s Hideaway, then Laney’s — making the address itself a small case study in Westport’s churn. As a closed spot, it earns a place in the Registry’s in-memoriam record: a brief, ambitious swing at fried chicken and live country in the metro’s oldest entertainment district.

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Footnotes

  1. The Kansas City Star (via Yahoo News) — “A Kansas City chicken restaurant, bar and music venue is closed.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kansas-city-chicken-restaurant-bar-181159126.html. Source for: end-of-March-2026 closure; December 2024 opening; Tin Roof / Nashville operator and CEO Bob Franklin; ‘70s-themed Southern-comfort chicken-and-live-band concept; closure quotes (“wasn’t working out as well as we would’ve liked”; neighborhood comment); replacement tenant pending. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Facebook — Westport KC, “What’s NEW in Westport? Laney’s Get Down, located at the corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania….” https://www.facebook.com/westportkc/posts/999091498923501/. Source for: corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania location; opening announcement; chicken-and-bar concept. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. KC Restaurant Week — “Laney’s Get Down.” https://www.kcrestaurantweek.com/laneys-get-down. Source for: Westport location/atmosphere; fried-chicken menu items (buttermilk tenders, fried-chicken Alfredo), sides (garlic mashed potatoes, fried Brussels sprouts), desserts (brownie sundae, peaches-and-cream waffle). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Visit KC — “Live Country Music Weekends at Laney’s.” https://www.visitkc.com/events/live-country-music-weekends-at-laneys/. Source for: live country bands Friday/Saturday 8 PM; “Solo Hour” solo-cup promotion. ↩

  5. Facebook — JoyceKC, “Laney’s Get Down closed in Westport in late March….” https://www.facebook.com/JoyceKC/posts/1276568167938885/. Source for: late-March closure; prior tenants at 4057 Pennsylvania (Mickey’s Hideaway, closed late 2022; McCoy’s Public House, ~two decades); replacement-tenant context..] ↩

  6. Instagram — “@laneysgetdownkc / Westport’s Laney’s Get Down bar & restaurant has [closed]….” https://www.instagram.com/p/DW9RBLuluBT/. Source for: closed status; community confirmation. ↩ ↩2

  7. Yelp — “Laney’s Get Down — CLOSED, 4057 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, Missouri” (updated April 2026). https://www.yelp.com/biz/laneys-get-down-kansas-city. Source for: CLOSED status; address; 122 photos / 37 reviews history. ↩

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  • Westport