The Bluhawk mixed-use development is in the process of becoming what Bart Lowen, Vice President of Development for Kansas City-based Price Brothers, calls a “higher-level” experience.
Just off West 159th Street and U.S. Highway 69 sits The Marketplace at Bluhawk, the shopping center’s first phase of retail.
Its next phase, The Boundary, will bring another 200,000 square feet of restaurants and retail to the south end of the bustling development by the spring of 2026.
And right in the center of where The Boundary is planned, an “all-encompassing” sports and entertainment complex has been taking shape.
After more than a year of construction, AdventHealth Sports Park is set to open to the public on Saturday, Oct. 26.
This first phase of development at the sports park includes 260,000 square feet of sports and entertainment — from basketball courts and an ice rink for local teams, to video games and multiple eateries for the whole family.
Between the versatility of the facility itself for both youth and amateur athletes and their families, and the retail that will stretch out beyond the facility’s walls, Lowen said he likes to think the development could lead by example and inspire other cities to pursue similar concepts in the future.
“What I really love about this project is the culmination of all that’s coming together that creates an experience to the family that’s just all-encompassing,” Lowen said at a media event at the newly-finished sports complex on Wednesday. “We actually think that once we get The Boundary done and activities start happening, it’ll be a great case study for how to deliver a sports-anchored development. Four years from now, maybe we’ll get some phone calls.”
Here are some images from the media tour earlier this week:
