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Tweet As key dates in the approval process for the Mission Chateau development approach, we’ve gotten a number of questions about the relative size of the development and about its impact on Prairie Village city finances. We’ll try to delve into a bit of detail on these issues in the coming weeks, starting today with [...]
Tweet If its application is approved later this summer, the entire city of Westwood Hills could be included on both the Kansas and the National Register of Historic Places. The city’s 175 homes and its few businesses are all included in an application, which is now being reviewed by staff at the State Historic Preservation [...]
Tweet The re-development of the Mission West shopping center and the Blockbuster building across Johnson Drive have been proposed to the city along with a Community Improvement District (CID) to help pay for the renovations. Mission West includes Hobby Lobby, Avelluto’s restaurant, the Department of Motor Vehicles branch, Taco Bell and several other businesses that [...]
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 (We inadvertently posted an outdated overhead view of the [...]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 After months of delays on account of a city moratorium on special use permit applications, weather and postponements from the developer, the Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday got its first good look at the Tutera Group’s plans for an extensive senior living community proposed for the Mission Valley Middle School site. More than [...]
Tweet If, for whatever reason, you feel that your life would be made more complete by access to a wider variety of fast food chains, you’re in luck! Wendy’s will be opening a new location just across the state line from Prairie Village in Kansas City, Mo. Crews have demolished the dated strip mall that [...]
Tweet The last two undeveloped properties in Roeland Park sit across the street from the Gateway project in Mission. And one of those parcels is already destined to become the site of a new Commerce Bank branch. The properties are the green spaces on the north side of Johnson Drive on both the east and [...]
Tweet We’ve got two updates to pass along regarding the Mission Valley-site senior living community proposal: The community meeting originally scheduled for the week of Feb. 18 and then rescheduled for this past Wednesday has again (and, hopefully, finally) been rescheduled for next Tuesday, March 5. It will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the SM [...]
Tweet Nearly a month after it last presented plans for the redevelopment of Mission Valley Middle School to neighborhood homeowners, the site’s owners are prepared to unveil a tweaked design intended to address some of the more common concerns expressed by the public. The Tutera Group will be holding a city-wide meeting to present its [...]
Tweet We figured it might be of interest to those of you who haven’t attended a community meeting on the proposed Mission Chateau senior living community on the site of Mission Valley middle school to see the Tutera Group’s Frequently Asked Questions document about the project:
Tweet Destruction of green space. Lack of fit with the surrounding neighborhoods. Oversaturation in the market. Deleterious impact on home values. These were among the concerns expressed Thursday at a citywide meeting on the Tutera Group’s proposal to build a $50 million, 376-unit senior living community on the site of Mission Valley Middle School in [...]
Tweet Members of the two Homeowners Associations in the immediate vicinity of the abandoned Mission Valley Middle School site this week got their first chance to hear details about the extensive senior living community developers have planned for the 18-acre site. Representatives from the Tutera Group, which plans to build on the property, made presentations [...]
Tweet The number of available housing units in Westwood could increase 45 percent when both residential phases of Woodside Village are complete at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and 47th Place. Construction on the first phase could begin in the first half of this year. According to Westwood City Clerk Fred Sherman, the city currently [...]
Tweet A new development across the street from Westwood City Hall will add significant housing stock to the city. The project stretches along Rainbow Boulevard between 47th Place and 46th Avenue. It includes multiple housing units in a multi-story setting as well as retail space on the bottom floor. That project and a related expansion [...]
Tweet Organizers of the Mission Valley Neighbors Association are urging members to show up en masse at the Jan. 8 planning commission meeting to show support for a proposal that would allow the group — and any neighborhood potentially affected by a development project — to file a formal protest. The following message went out via email [...]
Tweet View Larger Map While the large Gateway project at the east end of Johnson Drive has captured most to the attention in Mission, the city got a peek at a smaller redevelopment project that could materialize farther west along Johnson Drive, adding another grocery store to the city. A property at Johnson Drive and [...]
Tweet If you want to know what the new Gateway will look like when it is completed, a set of renderings and a video from the developers gives the best picture yet of what to expect in the coming years at the corner of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Roe Avenue. The depictions are part of [...]
Tweet The first glimpse the public will get of the new Gateway development agreement likely will come later this month when the packet for a Jan. 2 council work session is published. The January session is the first scheduled meeting for the council to review and discuss what is expected to be the final agreement. [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday gave the green light to a process that could establish a formal procedure for protesting certain development projects in the city — and may ultimately impact the development of the Mission Valley site. In response to calls from homeowners who live in the neighborhoods surrounding Mission Valley, the [...]
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 Walmart has agreed to participate in the sales tax assessment at the Mission Gateway, apparently eliminating one of the concerns about support for the project. The retailer has agreed to be included in a one-half cent sales tax that will support Community Improvement District bonds used to fund construction. The first plan proposed an [...]
Tweet The lawyer representing owners of the Mission Valley site aired a host of grievances before the Prairie Village City Council Monday — and in the process, provided the first look at the group’s plans for the space. Polsinelli Shughart PC attorney John Petersen spoke at length during the public forum portion of the meeting [...]
Tweet Will Walmart be part of the Mission Gateway Community Improvement District that will impose additional sales tax on transactions in the center? And do some council votes for the project hinge on whether the giant retailer is in or out? “The request is on the table,” developer Tom Valenti told Mission council members Wednesday. “I [...]
Tweet A little more than a dozen people showed up Monday morning and a substantially larger crowd Monday evening for the first two of three public open house sessions the city of Mission is holding to explain the development plan for the east Gateway project. The city has reached a development deal for the [...]
Tweet STANDEES got the green light from the Prairie Village planning commission Tuesday, but an eight-foot trail through the Village Shops didn’t fare as well. The restaurant and theater combination that will move into the old Macy’s home store and Einstein Brothers bagel shop had no problem getting its site plan approval and cleared [...]
