Archives for “Construction”
Tweet Bell | Knott + Associates, the architects designing the UMB building that will go up on the site occupied for nearly 60 years by Roney’s service station, has formally submitted updated construction plans to Prairie Village. The new plans address a few concerns the city’s planning commission had with the original drawings, which had [...]
Tweet The cell phone tower approved unanimously by the Prairie Village city council this June is currently under construction on the grounds of the Johnson County Fire Department station at 63rd Street and Mission Road, just north of Indian Hills Middle School. The tower will be used by the fire department as well as mobile [...]
Tweet Roney’s, as we reported last week, is but a pile of rubble. And though construction on the UMB location scheduled to be put up on the site likely won’t begin for some time, we do have a decent idea of what the building will end up looking like. Here are a couple of shots [...]
Tweet A County Assistance Road Systems (CARS) project has begun in Fairway on Buena Vista and 53rd Streets, west of the Shawnee Indian Mission. The project, which is jointly funded by Johnson County and the cities of Fairway and Roeland Park, includes curb replacement and the laying of new asphalt. The construction will reduce traffic [...]
Tweet The Verona Columns, backdrop to countless prom photo, are currently getting a dose of TLC from the city of Mission Hills. As part of the final phase of the rebuilding of Mission Drive, the city has closed off the roundabout north of the columns for a series of road improvements. They’ve also begun some [...]
Tweet Construction crews have closed one lane of traffic at the intersection of 75th Street and Mission Road as they remove the decorative sidewalk the city installed a few years ago only to have it crumble time and again. The city went into litigation with the contractor who originally installed the sidewalk. City staff say [...]
















