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Martin Cleaners is a family-run dry cleaner, laundry and alterations shop on South Noland Road in Independence, owned by David and Joylynne Martin. They took over a Noland Road storefront that had been a dry cleaner for roughly five decades — it traded as VIP Cleaners before them — and renamed it in 2019. In January 2025 they brought the Stitchin’ Post alterations team in-house, which makes this one of the few places in eastern Jackson County where cleaning, wash-and-fold and a working tailor sit under one roof. Free pickup and delivery runs in Lee’s Summit.

Description

Martin Cleaners is an independent dry cleaner and alterations shop at 3606 S Noland Road in Independence, Missouri, owned and operated by David and Joylynne Martin.12 It is a single storefront with a delivery route rather than a multi-site operation: the Lee’s Summit presence is free pickup and delivery, not a second counter.1

The business is unusual in its trade for having absorbed a separate, established alterations operation rather than contracting the work out. In January 2025 the Martins brought the Stitchin’ Post alterations team in-house, describing it as an operation that had “been a fixture in Independence for decades — a trusted name in tailoring.”2 Alterations fittings are walk-in on a set schedule, Tuesday through Saturday.1 For a customer this means garment cleaning and tailoring happen at one address, which in most of the metro requires two stops.

The shop advertises next-business-day turnaround on most items dropped off Monday through Thursday.1

Goods and services

  • Dry cleaning and shirt laundry13
  • Wash-and-fold laundry1
  • Alterations and tailoring — in-house since January 2025 via the Stitchin’ Post team12
  • Household and specialty items — comforters, drapes, shoes, hats1
  • Corporate accounts1
  • Free pickup and delivery in Lee’s Summit1

History

The building at 3606 S Noland Road has operated as a dry cleaner for what the current owners describe as “the better part of five decades.”2 Immediately before the Martins, it traded as VIP Cleaners — a name still attached to the address in directory listings that have not been updated.4

David and Joylynne Martin acquired the business in 2019 and renamed it: “When we took over in 2019, the business became Martin Cleaners.”2 They describe the purchase as having come out of looking “for something of our own,” and characterise the growth since as steady.2

The second significant date is January 2025, when the Stitchin’ Post alterations team joined the business in-house.2 The Stitchin’ Post’s own separate history in Independence is not established by any source located this pass and is flagged below — it is a plausible Registry or in-memoriam subject in its own right.

Neither the founding year of the original cleaner on the site nor the name of the retiring owner the Martins bought from was found in any source this pass.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Martin Cleaners — official site, home page — asserts: address 3606 S Noland Road, Independence, MO 64055; store phone (816) 461-1655 and pickup-and-delivery text line (816) 795-5578; hours Monday-Friday 7:00 AM-6:30 PM, Saturday 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, alterations fittings walk-in Tuesday-Saturday 9:00 AM-2:00 PM; services dry cleaning, shirt laundry, wash-and-fold, alterations and tailoring, household and specialty items (comforters, drapes, shoes, hats), corporate services; “Free pickup & delivery in Lee’s Summit”; “Most items dropped off Monday through Thursday are ready the next business day”; describes the business as family-owned. Primary currently-operating proof. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. Martin Cleaners — official site, “About Us” — asserts: owners are David and Joylynne Martin; “We (David and Joylynne Martin) had been looking for something of our own”; “When we took over in 2019, the business became Martin Cleaners”; the business has grown “steadily since 2019”; the predecessor business was VIP Cleaners; “The building on Noland Road has been a dry cleaner for the better part of five decades”; “In January 2025, we brought the Stitchin’ Post alterations team in-house”; the Stitchin’ Post had “been a fixture in Independence for decades — a trusted name in tailoring.” (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. Martin Cleaners — official site, dry cleaning service page — asserts: the dry cleaning and shirt laundry service offering. (Located 2026-08-14; not fetched directly this pass — cited for the service listing only, which is corroborated by 1.) ↩

  4. VIP Cleaners, 3606 S Noland Rd, Independence, MO 64055 — directory listing — asserts: the VIP Cleaners name is associated with the same street address, independently corroborating the first-party statement about the predecessor business. Cited as name-and-address corroboration only; aggregator directories are not used for any operational fact on this page. ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/martin-cleaners · record updated 2026-08-14