The long-vacant building that formerly housed a Runza fast food franchise in Mission is getting a new tenant.
Kansas-based Azura Credit Union plans to open up a location at 6751 Johnson Drive, where a Runza operated before closing in 2018.
The site itself is getting more sidewalk space
- Azura plans to close off a vehicular turnoff from Johnson Drive, landscape the site and add a new, eight-foot sidewalk along the busy roadway.
- The sidewalk will round the corner along Riggs Avenue, which will be the only entrance and exit to the bank branch’s parking lot, according to city documents.
- When cars enter the parking lot, they will drive counterclockwise “around the building to new teller machines on the south side” of the building, City Planner Karie Kneller told the city council in December.
Construction is expected to begin soon
- The Mission Planning Commission approved the credit union’s plans in November, and the city council approved plans the following month.
- The development review committee is “reviewing the project for permitting,” according to the city of Mission website.
- Construction is anticipated to begin later this summer or fall.
The building has been vacant for years
- Runza, the Lincoln, Nebraska-based restaurant chain, closed its Mission franchise — the only Kansas City metro location — in 2018.
- The vast majority of the chain’s dozens of locations are in Nebraska, with the closest to Kansas City now in Lawrence.
- For Azura, the new Mission branch will be its third Johnson County location, with one in Lenexa and one opening soon in Olathe.
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