Former Kmart some movement
Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 1:30 pm
The site is located on the south side of Shawnee Mission Parkway between Eby Avenue and Antioch Road. A Freddy’s Frozen Custard, Krispy Kreme and La Petite Academy are already located there and will not be changed, according to city documents.
The proposed development would include a 3,300-square-foot retail building, three 5,600-square-foot restaurants, a 2,100-square-foot restaurant and two apartment buildings with 158 and 204 units. An outdoor space will sit near two restaurants and the apartment buildings, and have amenities for customers and the public, according to city documents.
The eastern apartment building will have 117 one-bedroom units and 41 two-bedroom units. The western building will have 151 one-bedroom units and 153 two-bedroom units, according to the plans.
Uh, this Kmart closed in 2013, not 1995 lol.herrfrank wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:24 am This K-Mart site, which opened circa 1970, and a couple other K-Marts (the northland I-29 site, for example) were vacant for about as long as they were open. My last visit was 1986 to buy a footlocker for books to take to college. I think it closed around 1995, nearly 30 years ago. 30 years of prime suburban realty sitting idle is Not a Good Outcome.
How do we prevent this from recurrence? Higher land tax?
could also mean. KC area because lots of places near by in KS/MO but nut hear and yes some have been before.mistervinix wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:48 am "New to area" could simply mean new to THIS area. Like another What-A-Burger. Or Chick-fil-A.
Utility lines along a stretch of Shawnee Mission Parkway are going away.
The Merriam City Council on Dec. 11 unanimously approved a $4 million project and a $1 million contingency to install underground utilities along Shawnee Mission Parkway near Interstate 35.
Merriam has been working with Evergy, the Kansas City, Missouri-based utility company, on this project.
City staff said this effort is in coordination with the ongoing Merriam Grand Station project, to get all construction out of the way at once.
“There’s a lot going on on Shawnee Mission Parkway,” Public Works Director Celia Kumke said at the Dec. 11 meeting. “Let’s get their (Merriam Grand Station) project done and our project done so that once it’s completed we can go back to driving down the corridor without a lot of construction cones.”