Representatives of Omaha-based Dial Retirement Communities have informed the city of Mission that they no longer intend to pursue a 141-unit senior housing project on the site of the former JCPenney call center, City Administrator Laura Smith told members of the city council on Wednesday.
Smith told members of the city council at the city’s community development committee meeting that the company indicated it had identified another site for the project.
Mission approved a pre-development agreement with the company for the project in February. Dial had also filed an application stating its intent to seek tax increment financing (TIF) for the project.
Dial is the operator of the 136-unit Silvercrest at Deer Creek retirement community in Overland Park, and is nearing completion of a second Kansas City-area project in Lenexa. It also has properties in Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois.
The company put down a $10,000 deposit with the city as part of the pre-development agreement. The city will be assessing in the coming weeks how much they spent with contractors and consultants to date, and then reimbursing Dial for whatever of the $10,000 was not spent on the project.
