The Overland Crossing shopping center is set to undergo some major changes as Kansas City-based Legacy Development works to bring eight new tenants to the retail center near 119th Street and Metcalf Avenue.
What’s happening: The developer plans to add four new buildings to increase density at the complex adjacent to the Blue Valley North campus in Overland Park, while reducing the space occupied by some existing tenants, according to Legacy’s vice president of development Dave Claflin.
- A new coffee shop is expected to be built in the parking lot of Mattress Firm, while three other buildings will be constructed over parking spaces in the south side of the complex.
- Both Mattress Firm and another existing tenant, Burlington Coat Factory, will be reduced in size in order to split their current square footage with new tenants, Claflin said.
- The building that formerly housed U.S. Toy, which closed earlier this spring, will be split to provide space for two new tenants.
Key quote: “The center has this big sea of parking between everything, and it really never gets fully utilized,” Claflin said. “Part of that is because of the change in retail and part is because of the change in the way we act now. We take fewer trips, and we Uber more. We just don’t need all that parking.”
New tenants: Claflin said Legacy has plans to announce all of its new tenants sometime in mid-September.
- In addition to a coffee shop, he said the developer is working to get leases signed for new retail spaces that will sell items like home decor and soft goods.
- Construction times could vary, but Claflin said he expects the new stores to be open sometime between late 2023 and early 2024.
New Whole Foods: Legacy is also working to finish construction for a new Whole Foods location in the shopping center, with plans to finish the exterior by November.
- Once that outer shell is built, Whole Foods will take over to finish the building’s interior construction in time to open in the summer of 2023.
- In August 2021, the Overland Park Planning Commission unanimously approved a final development plan for the 45,000-square-foot grocery store.
- It is relocating from its current space at The Fountains shopping center, one block east at 119th and Glenwood streets.
Other renovations: While several existing occupied buildings on the Overland Crossing site will remain, they will be rehabbed in order to match the design of the new structures.
- “It’s not going to be a major facelift, but it’s just going to be a spruce up of what’s there now,” Claflin said.
- The large building on the southern end of the property that currently houses Golf Galaxy and Burlington will be refaced with new stone and wood accents and also repainted in some areas.
- A separate building next to Blue Valley Parkway that currently houses Pan-Asian Market will be repainted to match the redevelopment’s look.
