Housing

Dressed in red, dozens of people attended the Olathe Planning Commission meeting Monday to oppose a proposal for a 476-unit apartment complex at 159th Street and Pflumm Road. Their primary criticisms were the height of the proposed buildings, possible traffic...

Updated: Friday, Oct. 9, 2026:  A plan to bring a mix of housing options and commercial uses to a vacant property south of Bluhawk easily got the greenlight from Overland Park. On Monday, Oct. 5, the Overland Park City Council approved...

A new senior living care facility specializing in assisted living and memory care has opened in Shawnee. St. Louis-based Cedarhurst Senior Living opened its latest community-based care facility in Shawnee last week. The facility is aimed at helping close a...

A nonprofit that converts homes in Johnson County into accessible living spaces for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities could soon do the same to an old MED-ACT facility in Overland Park. Friends of JCDS wants to renovate the ambulance...

Shawnee has advanced plans for a townhome project near downtown. On Sept. 21, the Shawnee Planning Commission voted 6-0 to approve final plans for the 57th and Barton Townhomes development, located on a vacant lot near the Shawnee 1929 Museum....

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...

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...