Drive-thru coffee shop planned for Metcalf Village in Overland Park swapped for gas station

A drive-thru coffee shop planned in the future nine-acre Metcalf Village Shops commercial development in southern Overland Park is getting replaced. 

On Monday, the Overland Park Planning Commission approved a revised preliminary development plan for the shift in the building’s intended use.

It was part of the commission’s consent agenda, which means they considered it alongside a series of other procedural items that were not individually discussed. 

Metcalf Village Shops coffee joint becomes gas station

• In the new plan, the site near the southeast corner of 161st Street and Metcalf Avenue previously intended for the drive-thru coffee shop will be taken up instead by a gas station. 
• That comes with an attached convenience store in a multi-tenant building with room for two more restaurants.
• City documents related to the revised site plan do not give a reason for the change in uses for this particular building in the wider commercial development. 

Wider Metcalf Village area has mixed-use plan

• The area surrounding the Metcalf Village Shops near 160th and Metcalf in southern Overland Park is marked mostly by multifamily residential and commercial uses, either in effect or planned. 
• Just to the north of the site, Overland Park authorized a 40-acre development plan as part of a rezoning request. 
• The developer Lux Living plans to build more than 900 multifamily units and 35,000 square feet of commercial space stretched over 11 buildings. 
• Other medium density and some high density multifamily residential developments are to the south and east. 

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