The dormant Brookridge redevelopment site in northern Overland Park could see new activity under a revised plan currently working its way through the city planning process.

It’s been nearly three years since Curtin Property Co., the developer, formally broke ground on the $2 billion project near Antioch Road and Interstate 435 at the Brookridge Golf Club alongside local officials and Gov. Laura Kelly.

But aside from traffic infrastructure improvements required to serve the redevelopment around 103rd Street and Antioch Road, and the recent demolition of a couple of single-family homes on the perimeter, actual activity on the controversial project has been sparse.

At an early May Overland Park City Council meeting, Karen Nations, a neighbor with longtime roots in the city, tearfully compared the project to Mission Gateway, a stalled redevelopment project along Roe Avenue between Shawnee Mission Parkway and Johnson Drive in a neighboring city that’s drawn ire from residents.

“Nothing has been done at the corner in months; it’s an eyesore, it’s an embarrassment,” Nations said during open public comment. “You need to do something to get that corner cleaned up.”

However, a new plan is set to go before the Overland Park Planning Commission this summer, with some substantial changes, which include a 3,500-seat performance hall as well as a 42-acre park. Other parts of the plan mirror the old development proposals, like the thousands of residential units, office space, retail and dining.

It is unclear what exactly prompted these changes to the Brookridge redevelopment plan.

At the time of publication, Curtin Property Co. had not returned the Post’s request for comment.

New Brookridge plan has multiple phases

The new Brookridge redevelopment plan is divided into three main phases, through which primarily apartments, retail, office, parking garages and hotels will be built. Plus, one phase includes a 3,500-seat performance hall.

The first phase, dubbed Phase A, is broken into three parts. Those include a combined

• 625 multifamily housing units
• 205,000 square feet of retail space
• 725,000 square feet of office space
• 5,500+ parking stalls in parking garages
• About 550 hotel rooms.

Phase B features:

• A 3,500-seat performance hall
• 740,000 square feet of office space
• 840+ multifamily housing units
• 19,000 square feet of retail space
• 6,000+ parking stalls in parking garages

And Phase C includes:

• 490,000 square feet of office
• 350+ multifamily housing units
• 18,000 square feet of retail
• 600+ parking stalls in parking garages

Exactly what those structures, facilities and parks would look like is unclear, as several of those details may be handled later in subsequent site plan applications. However, a lot of the development proposals seem to match past plan iterations for the site, including a large number of multifamily housing units and office space.

If approved and fully built out, this would represent more than 9 million square feet of new construction.

Additionally, parks and green spaces are proposed throughout the development, including a 42-acre park that would “be fashioned out of the former golf course landscape,” according to the project design manual. The plan also calls for a two-acre urban park, which would be public.

Brookridge redevelopment was controversial, slow to progress

When talks to redevelop the 200-acre Brookridge site kicked off about a decade ago, neighbors pushed back hard against the prospect of a more urban development pattern at a site that’s historically operated as a golf course.

Eventually, the city did approve a redevelopment plan, but tensions persisted and flared again a few years later when the developer requested more than $200 million in tax incentives through tax increment financing districts, special sales tax districts called Community Improvement Districts and sales tax exemptions delivered through bonds. The Overland Park City Council at the time narrowly granted the incentives after previously rejecting other proposals.

Then, the site sat for four years before any activity actually began in the form of an official groundbreaking in late 2023 that proved to be largely ceremonial, as no vertical construction has actually occurred since. (Some KDOT-backed traffic improvements around 103rd and Antioch tied to the development have been completed.)

In fact, Overland Park officials earlier this year, when lamenting a widening housing shortage, said Brookridge is responsible for about a quarter of the city’s 7,000-unit multifamily housing backlog of approved but so far unbuilt projects.

What comes next?

The Brookridge mixed-use rezoning is scheduled to go to the planning commission on July 13. At that point, the application and a recommendation from the planning commission in favor or against will go to the city council for approval.

Down the line, final development plans will also need approval.

Additionally, the redevelopment project got roughly $200 million in tax incentives, and it’s unclear how these changes to the plan could impact that economic development deal. That’s because several terms in those original agreements were closely tied to the previously approved development plans, so changes to the redevelopment proposal could send the city and the developer back to the drawing board.

However, some deadlines tied to the original incentive package are approaching, primarily related to required commencement dates for internal and external street improvements, which are set for mid-2026. Without an approved deadline extension from the city council or progress toward those specific goals, some incentives may expire.

Looking back: $2B Brookridge project in Overland Park officially breaks ground