Mission Valley Middle School

The road to get to Wednesday's Mission Chateau groundbreaking ceremony was long, hard, and pockmarked with conflict. But in the end, said Prairie Village city leaders and representatives of the Tutera Group, the city and the company wound up...

The structure that served as a focal point for a group of parents who organized to keep Mission Valley Middle School from closing five years ago is no longer standing. Demolition crews this week felled the Mission Valley library, which was...

The United States Supreme Court today rejected the petition of a group of Shawnee Mission School District parents to reconsider a school funding case against the state of Kansas that came out of the closing of Mission Valley Middle...

The idea just made sense to Kathi Knop. The former Mission Valley and SM East librarian knew there had been some consternation over the fact that the district had decided to close the middle school just two years after completing a...

Bad news for any of you who were holding out hope that somehow, some way, against all odds Mission Valley Middle School might become a functioning educational facility again: The city of Prairie Village reports that it issued permits...

It was the same governing body, virtually the same proposal, and exactly the same result. The Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday voted 4-1 to recommend approval of the Tutera Group's second Mission Chateau proposal, sending the issue to the...

A lawsuit filed by a group of Shawnee Mission parents over adequate school funding is still alive after a federal judge refused to dismiss the case. The lawsuit challenges the state's cap on how much money residents can raise in...

The "enhanced transition zone" in the Tutera Group's most recent proposal for redevelopment of the Mission Valley site might have been intended to address neighbors' complaints about the density of the property -- but it seems to offer the...

Prairie Village and the Tutera Group may be headed to court over the city's rejection of Tutera's 350,000-plus square foot Mission Chateau proposal in September. But that isn't stopping the company from trying a new approach to building a senior...

Prairie Village administrators and elected officials on Wednesday were taking stock of the law suit filed against the city in Johnson County district court by MVS, LLC, the company which owns the Mission Valley site and is controlled by...

A week and a half after the Prairie Village City Council voted down the proposed Mission Chateau senior living development, the frequently heated public debate about the future of the site has been reduced to a quiet simmer. But...

The Mission Valley area neighbors have spoken — and what they've said may prove a significant hurdle for the Tutera Group in its quest to build an approximately 350,000-square-foot senior living community on the former school site. The city of Prairie...