The building that for decades housed the city of Fairway’s public works facilities has been razed and the site cleared to make way for a new business building.
Crews this month finished demolition of the old public works buildings to make way for the construction of a new facility that will house a dental practice.
The Fairway City Council approved the sale of the property in 2015.
In 2015, Fairway entered a long-term lease for a building in the Roeland Park industrial complex just off Roe Avenue on Roe Parkway as the new home for its public works operations. The larger site — it sits on 2.33 acres instead of the 1/3 acre site at Buena Vista and Shawnee Mission Parkway — provided both more office space and more storage and work space for public works crews.
Roeland Park, which has its public works facilities near the Fairway facility, has a partnership with Fairway that allows its crews to access a salt dome on the Fairway property for road treatment during inclement weather.
