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Tweet With the formal plans for the Tutera Group’s Mission Chateau senior living community development set to go before the Prairie Village planning commission in less than two weeks, we thought it might be a good time to do a community temperature check on the proposal. (We inadvertently posted an outdated overhead view of the [...]
Tweet Construction projects, both public and private, in Mission are on a pace that shows a sharp rebound from the recession. The city gave an update on several public projects that are under way, including the changes to transit stops, the Martway and Johnson Drive rehabilitations and the swimming pool replacement. But Martin Rivarola, Community [...]
Tweet After being pushed back from its original start date because of this year’s weather, Mission’s Martway reconstruction project has begun and the street closings have kicked in. Martway is now closed at Woodson where the box bridge that carries Rock Creek under the intersection will be replaced. The intersection will be closed for about [...]
Tweet St. Ann Catholic School will undergo a classroom expansion this summer. The building project will add eight new classrooms to the school, which serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Principal Becky Akright said the construction will allow space for an additional kindergarten classroom and move the current kindergarten class closer to the primary [...]
Tweet The first of two big construction projects on downtown Mission streets is set to start in the next few days. Martway is the first to get started on the rehab project, but Johnson Drive also is scheduled for major work in 2014. The Martway project will involve street closures periodically from February through fall. [...]
Tweet Demolition of the interior of the old Macy’s Home Store space and the Einstein Bros. restaurant in the Village Shops will start next week to make way for STANDEES, the new restaurant and theater combination that is expected to open in May 2013. Einstein Bros. closed last weekend. The restaurant will have seating at [...]
Tweet It will definitely have a drive-thru and it most likely will be a Starbucks. That’s the plan for the new building that will replace the demolished Waid’s structure at Prairie Village shops in the near future. The city planning commission approved a conditional use permit for a drive-thru at the new building Tuesday night [...]
Tweet “I can hardly wait,” was the prevailing sentiment of the sparse group of neighbors who turned out Tuesday for a briefing on STANDEES, the restaurant and movie theatre concept planned for the Village Shops. As part of the city’s public participation policy and in preparation for its upcoming planning commission project review, STANDEES invited [...]
Tweet Village Shops owner LANE4 on Monday secured an extension from the Prairie Village city council that will allow the company to postpone the start of the redevelopment of Mission Lane. The Community Improvement District agreement approved by the city in September 2010 required that the company begin renovation of Mission Lane by Nov. 2, [...]
Tweet Seven months after work began, and more than two years after the Prairie Village City Council approved the Community Improvement District that made the project possible, Corinth Square owner LANE4 is ready to celebrate the (near) completion of its work on the shopping center. This Thursday, LANE4 and the Corinth merchants will be hosting [...]
Tweet The first renovation at the Village Shops will begin in November with streetscape work on the north end of Mission Lane at Tomahawk Road. The Community Improvement District agreement between the city and the shopping center owner required renovation work to begin by November 2012 and be completed by late 2015. The Prairie Village [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents will have a chance to weigh in on the proposed improvements to the Village Shops — including a special-use permit for a drive-thru lane at a new retail space on the site of Waid’s — at a public meeting before the city’s Planning Commission next Tuesday, Sept. 11. Village Shops owner LANE4 [...]
Tweet Detour alert, Villagers. The city of Prairie Village has closed Somerset Drive at Nall Avenue to through traffic until November 6. The move comes as crews begin significant street repairs along Somerset Drive from Roe Avenue to Nall Avenue. Crews will be re-paving the asphalt and making curb and sidewalk repairs. They will also [...]
Tweet Anyone who drives past Indian Hills Middle School at 63rd and Mission can tell a lot of construction still needs to be completed, but when school started in August significant changes on the inside of the building greeted returning students. Among the improvements are a new library, offices, conference rooms and orchestra room plus [...]
Tweet Parking and traffic were the top concerns expressed by attendees at LANE4′s presentation Thursday about major planned redevelopments at the Village Shops. During the presentation, LANE4 president Owen Buckley walked the crowd through the company’s plans to completely revamp Mission Lane and build a new 6,000 square foot retail space to replace the current [...]
Tweet Groundbreaking on the project is at least 16 months away, but the public got its first look Monday at conceptual drawings for the major revamp of 75th Street from Mission Road to State Line Road in Prairie Village. Consultants George Butler and Associates presented the Prairie Village city council with an overview of the [...]
Tweet Construction crews are putting in serious overtime in an effort to ensure Indian Hills Middle School is ready for students on Monday. Prairie Village City Administrator Dennis Enslinger told the City Council Monday that workers are starting at 5:30 a.m. and staying until as late as 11 p.m. The Shawnee Mission School District’s communications [...]
Tweet This morning’s rain is obviously a huge relief to the various flora and fauna that have been struggling through this summer’s extensive drought. But the hot, dry conditions have had one benefit locally: They’ve allowed progress on a number of area construction projects to move forward on scheduled. Without rain delays, which can push [...]
Tweet Residents concerned about the construction of new sidewalks along Prairie Village streets should consider attending the City Council Committee of the Whole meeting at 6 p.m. on August 6 at City Hall. During that meeting, the council is scheduled to discuss the list of a dozen new sidewalks projects that were approved as part [...]
Tweet (Assuming the weather ever returns to some semblance of normalcy and it would actually be comfortable enough to want to go for a walk in the park) residents of the neighborhoods around Prairie Village’s Windsor Park are in for a treat, as the city is preparing to start work to revamp the park’s decaying [...]
Tweet ‘Tis mid-summer. Which means ’tis construction season. The Prairie Village police department posted a message on its Facebook page about several street closures today. Plan accordingly, motorists: Several streets will be closed today from 8 am to 5 pm. W. 71st Terrace from Roe to Nall, W. 77th Street from Roe to Briar and [...]
Tweet Summer hasn’t been a vacation for construction crews at Indian Hills Middle School. District spokeswoman Leigh Anne Neal said workers have been putting in extended hours and weekends in an effort to complete the extensive project list scheduled for this summer prior to the start of the 2012-2013 school year August 13. Those projects [...]
Tweet Merchants at Corinth Square and the Village Shops kick off their annual Sidewalk Sale today, though construction at Corinth Square will force some of the stores to display their sale items indoors. “Many of the merchants along 83rd Street will have their sales inside,” said the Merchants Association’s Donna Potts. “But they will have [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilor Charles Clark on Wednesday sent a letter to his peers on the City Council laying out his case for considering an increase to city property taxes as a way to stem what would be increasingly costly maintenance and repairs to city infrastructure in the coming years. He argues that while [...]
Tweet A stretch of the one of the most popular exercise routes in the area will be closed to wheeled traffic over the course of the next four to six weeks as crews work to repair erosion done to a creek bed wall. Mission Hills has hired a contractor to shore up the banks of [...]
