Lenexa offers ultimate OK to Metropolis Middle resort, retail mission

“This can be a nice mission to see progress,” Metropolis Councilmember Thomas Nolte mentioned. “What I’m actually enthusiastic about is a streetscape that’s created on all 4 sides and to have a consumer that may take a whole block.”

The constructing would sit on a vacant two-acre property between Elmridge Avenue and Penrose Lane on 87th Avenue Parkway, close to the Shawnee Mission Faculty District Aquatic Middle and Lenexa Metropolis Corridor.

88,000 sq.ft. of latest motels, retail deliberate

• There will likely be a European-based Marriott model referred to as AC Inns, together with a Residence Inn within the constructing, totaling 260 resort rooms between them.
• There would even be a typical entrance and foyer area for the motels, plus a centrally positioned courtyard.
• The AC Inns aspect of the constructing will characteristic a publicly-accessible restaurant with a bar.
• Additionally deliberate are 4 ground-level store areas totaling 11,000 sq. ft.
• Moreover, a multi-story parking storage will likely be constructed that has not less than 200 spots for resort visitors, plus public parking.

Extra public parking is feasible for Metropolis Middle

• The small print of this are usually not absolutely settled, however the mission might add an additional degree to its parking storage, which might add extra public parking to the positioning.
• Within the preliminary plans, 75 parking areas have been proposed to be put aside for most of the people.
• The parking concern has been a minor sticking level in earlier dialogue of the mission, although it has nonetheless handed every section with overwhelming help.
• Precisely what number of extra public spots might be added and whether or not or not that can positively occur hasn’t been settled.
• The council accepted primarily two plans Tuesday; one with the additional degree within the parking storage and one with out.

Lenexa’s subsequent steps:

• That is the final main planning hurdle for the mission earlier than the town council.
• Nevertheless, the builders are nonetheless anticipated to come back earlier than the council for authorization of an incentives bundle.
• At the moment, the town and the developer are anticipated to have settled the general public parking query.
• If the additional degree within the parking storage does go ahead, metropolis supervisor Beccy Yocham mentioned Lenexa would probably kick in a number of the cash to cowl the additional value.

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