Happy Thursday, Blue Valley!
Today’s forecast: Mostly sunny with a slight chance for ran this afternoon. High: 92. Low: 74.
One thing to know today
A grand opening date for the long-awaited new visitor center at the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens is set.
The new $23 million facility, dubbed the LongHouse Visitor Center, will officially open its doors Saturday, Sept. 9, according to a city announcement on Instagram.
The public is invited to come and see the new building, and the Arboretum will have free admission the entire weekend of the LongHouse’s opening.
The new visitor center sits near the parking lot and entrance to the Arboretum at 179th Street and Antioch Road.
It has been under construction for the better part of two years after the city council approved the project in 2020, but aspirations for a new visitor center date back much further.
The $23 million project is being funded through Overland Park’s Capital Improvement Plan, as well as with dollars from the nonprofit Arts & Recreation Foundation of Overland Park.
Public meetings Thursday
- Board of County Commissioners, 9:30 a.m. [View agenda]
- Board of County Commissioners committee of the whole,1 p.m. [View agenda]
Post’s top Wednesday stories
- Community pours in donations following death of Blue Valley North alum
- Of Course Kitchen & Company opens at Overland Park’s Bluhawk
- Nebraska-based Copps Pizza opening first Johnson County location
- JoCo Notes: Aspens in south Overland Park ‘closed until further notice’
- The August primary is over — who’s on the November ballot in JoCo?
Other local news
- OP firearms retailer sues ATF over license revocation. Overland Park-based Custombilt Firarems Manufacturing is demanding its license to sell firearms, revoked last month, be reinstated. [Kansas City Business Journal]
- EV battery parts supplier moves into Johnson County. The county announced Tuesday that Cnano Technology USA, which makes a number of components for electrical appliances and batteries, plans to build a new 330,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the New Century Commerce Center outside Gardner.
A thousand words
Public art on a sunny day at Tomahawk Creek Park in Leawood. Photo credit Lucie Krisman.
