Housing

A Mission apartment proposal off Metcalf has now doubled in scope, drawing rare and resounding opposition from residents. Developers have told the city that they need to add hundreds more apartments to the Foxridge Apartments project on the former site...

More multi-family housing is coming to a part of western Shawnee slated for development. On Sept. 14, the Shawnee City Council voted 7-0 to approve rezoning and a preliminary development plan for a new apartment complex off of Midland Drive...

After some revisions to the plan, a vacant property south of the Bluhawk mixed-use entertainment district in Overland Park could soon see a mix of housing options and commercial uses. The project, located at 167th Street and U.S. Highway 69,...

A developer’s plan to build a smattering of lower-density multifamily housing on a former Shawnee Mission School District office site easily cleared its last major hurdle. Gravel Development is behind the application to build roughly 45 rental duplexes, triplexes and...

An apartment project totaling upwards of $75 million on the edge of downtown Mission is eyeing a 2028 completion. Mission Beverly, the more than 250-unit apartment project near Powell Community Center, broke ground in March. Devon Coffey, director of development for...

In a parking lot in Olathe in July, Gina Foulks sleeps overnight in her car with her doors and windows open to allow for air to pass through. Most nights, the air would be cooler than throughout the day,...

Before too long, a vacant property near the heart of downtown Overland Park will become apartments for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and people with low income. Spearheaded by local nonprofit Friends of Johnson County Developmental Supports, the Floyd...

Residents near a future Dillons in west Olathe said they were excited when they learned the grocery store was coming. They’re less enthusiastic about the hundreds of apartments and townhomes proposed next door. City staff and developers gave a first...

Two years after Prairie Village’s housing debate was effectively put to rest, a new state law is forcing the city to delve back into housing discussions. Senate Bill 418, known as the by-right housing bill and signed into law earlier...

Revised plans to build a mix of different multifamily housing options at a site formerly used as a Shawnee Mission School District office building in Overland Park are moving forward. That’s at 7235 Antioch Road, which was previously identified for...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Tuesday, Aug. 11, to correct an error. The nonprofit plans to cover remaining costs not covered by other funding sources through a 20-year mortgage, not a 30-year mortgage. A 17-unit affordable housing project in...

Overland Park continues to work on its new zoning framework, which could fundamentally change how Johnson County’s largest city approaches housing, echoing past efforts in other cities to tackle the widening housing shortage. Overland Park’s new approach could, among other...