The first phase of AdventHealth’s long-awaited Lenexa City Center campus is officially underway at the corner of 87th Street Parkway and Renner Boulevard.
Though some major dirt moving at the site has been going on for some time, AdventHealth marked the official start of the health campus project on Thursday with a formal groundbreaking.
“A vital component of success of a community is great health care,” Lenexa Mayor Mike Boehm said. “Not just any health care, not just any campus, but it’s important to us that we have … a partner that understands what City Center is about.”
Multiple buildings are planned for the 25-acre campus
- A clear timeline remains uncertain, but a final plan approved last summer suggests it could take roughly two decades to see the full City Center campus come to fruition.
- This initial leg of the work is expected to last two years and will see the completion of a 244,000-square-foot, five-story hospital building and a three-story medical office building.
- The hospital, when complete, will have a 24-hour emergency room and an ICU.
- Future phases will include roughly 215,000 square feet of medical services, a wellness and fitness space and 84,000 square feet of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities.
Non-medical facilities are envisioned as well
- The campus is also set to have roughly 100,000 square feet of commercial space and additional medical offices.
- There will also be 30,000 square feet of retail, according to the plans approved last year.
- All of that will be complimented by a large parking structure set to have some 2,000 parking spaces.
AdventHealth has long-planned a Lenexa expansion
- Years ago, Shawnee Mission Medical Center — now AdventHealth Shawnee Mission — bought land in Lenexa. The city later identified it to be included in the 120-acre City Center district.
- AdventHealth’s regional CEO Sam Huenergardt told the Shawnee Mission Post that the city approached the health system roughly five years ago about getting the ball rolling on a City Center campus.
- The initial formal proposal came to the city in 2019 but the COVID-19 pandemic derailed plans to complete the whole campus by 2030.
- AdventHealth also operates an emergency room and bariatric health center just off of Prairie Star Parkway and K-7, and it already has a primary care office in City Center.
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