The Marinello

The Marinello is a gift and local-goods shop on the west side of Independence Square at 208–212 W Lexington Ave, owned by Bree and Travis Gensler as part of their Street Building project and named after a 1930s business that once occupied the space.¹²

Description

The Marinello is a retail shop of unique gifts and locally handcrafted goods on the west side of Independence Square, occupying part of the historic Street Building at 208–212 W Lexington Ave. It is one of three ventures the Gensler family runs in the restored building, alongside The Sentinel Room whiskey bar and Three Trails Lofts lodging. The shop takes its name from a 1930s business that previously occupied the space, and functions as the storefront face of the family’s building-stewardship project on the Square.¹²³

Ownership and history

Ownership

Period	Owner / Operator	Notes
c. 2020s → present	Bree and Travis Gensler (owner-operated)	Opened as the first of three Street Building ventures, before The Sentinel Room (March 2024).3

Owner background

Bree Gensler was born and raised in Independence, with family ties spanning multiple generations on and around the historic Square. Travis Gensler operated an insurance agency in downtown Independence for 13 years before the family turned to the Lexington Avenue building. The couple purchased the building around 2020 to preserve the historic commercial space, opening The Marinello retail shop before converting an adjacent unit into The Sentinel Room in March 2024.³

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: official-site product catalog (WooCommerce, first-party) · URL: https://themarinello.com/shop; https://themarinello.com/food-drink; https://themarinello.com/brands · Confidence: High

Status: not applicable. The Marinello is a retail store, not a food-service business, so it has no menu in the Registry sense. What it publishes instead is a priced online product catalog — with the notice “Thanks for visiting, online purchasing is disabled, but if you see something you like, visit us on the Independence Square!”, so the site functions as a browse-only shelf listing rather than a storefront.⁴

Catalog structure, as published in the site’s own navigation and brand index:⁴⁵

• Departments — Accessories (buttons, jewelry, key chains, magnets, bags, paper goods, stickers, tote bags) · Apparel (kids and baby, women, men, hats) · Apothecary · Food + Drink · Gifts · Games + Toys · Home (decor, throw pillows, drinkware, glassware, mugs) · Outdoors (barware, patches and buttons) · Pets.
• Food + Drink — 64 pages of listings, weighted toward bottled spirits and bar supplies, consistent with the family’s adjacent Sentinel Room whiskey bar. Sample published prices: Elijah Craig Straight Rye Whiskey ($35.99) · Knob Creek Bourbon 9 Year ($43.99) · Evan Williams Bourbon Bottled in Bond ($28.99–$29.99) · Bulleit 95 Rye Whiskey ($37.99) · Bulleit Bourbon ($44.99) · Empress Gin 1908 Indigo Gin ($43.99) · DOM Bénédictine 80 liqueur ($48.99) · Aperol Aperitif Liqueur ($29.99) · Elijah Craig Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon ($35.99) · Filthy Black Cherry ($51.99) · Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur ($2.99–$30.99).⁴
• Vendors — the site maintains an alphabetical brand index of the makers it stocks, including a number of small and regional producers, and runs an open vendor-application page.⁵

The catalog is inventory, not a fixed offering: prices and stock change without a published revision date, and no attempt is made here to reproduce it in full.

Links

• themarinello.com
• The Street Building
• Independence Square Association profile

Sources

Footnotes

1. The Marinello — official website — Asserts: gift and local-goods shop; unique gifts and locally handcrafted items; Independence, MO. ↩ ↩²

2. The Street Building — official site — Asserts: The Marinello located at 208–212 W Lexington Ave; owned by Travis & Bree Gensler; operates alongside The Sentinel Room and Three Trails Lofts as part of the Street Building project on Historic Independence Square. ↩ ↩²

3. Startland News — “How Independence’s new speakeasy vibes tie into the ‘goats and rabbits’ of Kansas City’s past” (April 2024) — Asserts: Bree Gensler born and raised in Independence with generations of family on the Square; Travis ran an Independence insurance agency 13 years; building purchased ~2020; The Marinello retail shop opened before The Sentinel Room (March 2024); shop named after a 1930s business in the space. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. The Marinello — official online catalog, Food + Drink category — accessed 2026-08-13. Asserts: site-wide notice “online purchasing is disabled, but if you see something you like, visit us on the Independence Square”; 64 pages of Food + Drink listings, largely bottled spirits, with published shelf prices; full department navigation (Accessories, Apparel, Apothecary, Food + Drink, Gifts, Games + Toys, Home, Outdoors, Pets). ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. The Marinello — official brand index and vendor application; themarinello.com — accessed 2026-08-13. Asserts: alphabetical index of stocked makers; open application process for new vendors. ↩ ↩²