Development

Despite concerns from nearby residents and some city council members, developers can move forward with the Sunnybrook developments at College Boulevard and Lone Elm Road. The Olathe City Council on Sept. 15 approved rezoning 31 vacant acres next to a...

The Kansas City Chiefs have been assembling the architects, project managers and developers that will create their new headquarters, practice facility and surrounding mixed-use district in Olathe since announcing its move from Missouri last December. Last month, the team added...

A popular grocery store chain has submitted plans to build a location in a growing part of western Lenexa. Hy-Vee submitted preliminary plans to build a new store on about 32 acres of land, near 83rd Street and Kansas Highway...

Johnson County commissioners earlier this month considered vetoing a tax increment financing plan for a De Soto assisted living facility, with most saying they were upset that there was no plan by the city to help the county recover...

Project Velocity, a proposed arts and entertainment district in Gardner, took multiple steps forward in the planning process this month. On Aug. 18, the Gardner City Council adopted a resolution “approving the execution and delivery to a Non-Binding Memorandum of...

A $75 million redevelopment project of a decades-old city pool site is well underway in Roeland Park. Moraine, the redevelopment formerly known as The Rocks, is on track to bring a 287-unit apartment complex and a 3,500-square foot restaurant to...

Olathe’s industrial footprint continues to expand. The Olathe City Council unanimously approved up to $239.8 million in industrial revenue bonds for three facilities that will manufacture electrical and power systems for data centers on Aug. 18. The buildings, operated by Wisconsin-based...

Leawood city councilmembers approved the revised final plan for the Regents Park-One35 project last week but not before working through their alarm over the size of the proposed mixed-use building along 135th Street. The project, previously approved by the planning...

The first grocery store to operate in Merriam in nearly a decade will open in less than two weeks. Trader Joe’s, a national grocery chain based in California, will open its new Merriam location at 9 a.m., on Wednesday, Sept....

The city of Edgerton has filed a lawsuit in Johnson County District Court to block a citizen-led petition seeking to ban data centers in the small southern Johnson County community. On Aug. 4, the city filed the lawsuit against Kimberly...

A vacant property just south of Bluhawk on 167th Street in Overland Park could be developed with a mix of housing options and large-scale commercial uses. Price Brothers, the same developer behind the mixed-use Bluhawk project, wants to convert the...

Nearly eight months after the Kansas City Chiefs announced plans to move from Missouri to Kansas, work is beginning behind the scenes to relocate the team’s headquarters and training facility to Olathe. But some big questions remain unanswered. What will the...