Texas Roadhouse is opening its newest Johnson County location on Saturday, May 22, according to company officials.
Located at 9761 Metcalf Ave., the steakhouse chain is one of the first new tenants to open at the former Sears site, now dubbed 97 Metcalf, along West 97th Street and Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park.
The city approved plans for Texas Roadhouse last year
- The Overland Park Planning Commission advanced a final development plan for the new steakhouse franchise in May 2022.
- The restaurant received approval from the commission despite there being some mixed feelings about a few requested deviations for the roughly 8,000-square-foot space.
- Texas Roadhouse has six locations around the Kansas City metro, including one in Olathe.
97 Metcalf will also have a gym, restaurants and coffee shop
- In March, the Overland Park City Council voted to approve a revised preliminary plan that includes a 93,000-square-foot Life Time Fitness and other retail components for the former Metcalf South mall site.
- By the time the 97 Metcalf project is complete, Box Development LLC plans to have a total of 10 buildings on the site for retail, offices or restaurants.
- In addition to Texas Roadhouse, tenants that have already been announced to be part of the redevelopment project include QuikTrip, Panera Bread and Dutch Bros Coffee.
The redevelopment site is smaller than originally planned
- Developers initially submitted plans to bring mixed-used development to the site in 2018, which featured apartments and a movie theater.
- However, that plan was scrapped after receiving pushback from neighbors that generally opposed the proposed 300-unit apartment complex.
- The developer then considered a new plan in 2021 that would have salvaged the Sears building by converting it into a 164,000-square-foot office building, but Box Development ultimately nixed that plan too and demolished the building.
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