OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Price Brothers has broken ground on a 99-room Holiday Inn Express hotel at the Bluhawk mixed-use development in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City. The project marks the first of three planned hotels within The Boundary, a retail and lifestyle center. The hotel is scheduled for completion in spring 2026 in time to welcome guests for the FIFA World Cup. Additionally, Barnes & Noble and J. Crew Factory are scheduled to open at The Boundary this summer.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Brinkmann Constructors has broken ground on a five-story building at the Tallgrass Creek Senior Living campus in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. Maryland-based Erickson Senior Living is the developer. The 173,000-square-foot property marks Brinkmann’s fifth residential building in Neighborhood Two at the Tallgrass Creek campus. As the final residential addition to the campus, the new building will feature 89 units built over a podium deck with below-grade parking. Lantz-Boggio Architects PC is the architect.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Saladworks, a Pennsylvania-based health restaurant chain, has secured its first Kansas City-area location at the Bluhawk mixed-use development in Overland Park. Grant Summers of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors co-represented the tenant along with Locate AI, a San Francisco-based commercial real estate firm. JLL represented the landlord. Saladworks’ new location will undergo a full build-out and will join other restaurants such as Red Door Woodfired Grill, Tropical Smoothie Café, Jinya Ramen Bar, Freddy’s Steakburgers, Cactus Grill and Andy’s Frozen Custard. Bluhawk features a sports facility, retail, restaurants, entertainment, multifamily, office and healthcare space. Woworks, the parent company of Saladworks, maintains more than 350 stores nationwide. Other Woworks brands include Frutta Bowls, Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh, The Simple Greek, Barberitos and Z!Eats. Construction on the 2,048-square-foot Saladworks in Overland Park is slated for completion this fall.
LENEXA, KAN. — Sierra, a retailer of off-price merchandise operated by the TJX Cos., has opened across the street from Oak Park Mall at Orchard Corners Shopping Center in Lenexa. A grand opening took place Saturday, March 15. Rick Weiser of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors led the build-out of Sierra’s 19,000-square-foot space in partnership with Harmon Construction and CT Architects. The project started with a 37,000-square-foot, former SteinMart property that was split into two to welcome Sierra and Petco. Modifications included a new rooftop, mechanical systems, electrical and gas service, and a new façade. The location marks Sierra’s second in the region. Petco’s space is currently in the drawing stage and is slated for completion in December. David Block of Block & Co. negotiated both the Petco and Sierra lease transactions on behalf of ownership.
LENEXA, KAN. — Cactus Grill has opened at Lenexa City Center’s Restaurant Row in Kansas. The new location features house-made salsas, fajitas and espinaca dip as well as a spacious bar and patio. Copaken Brooks owns the property, and Erin Johnston is the landlord representative. Ed Gieselman owns Cactus Grill.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Block & Co. Inc. Realtors has negotiated the sale and new lease of the Village West Discount Liquors store in Kansas City. Village West Discount Liquors sold the property at 11010 Parallel Parkway and leased 8,029 square feet to new ownership. Grant Summers of Block & Co. represented the buyer, 110th and Parallel, KC Development LLC. Summers also negotiated the lease of the space to South Hills LLC, which is the new acting operator for Village West Discount Liquors. Daniel Brocato of Block & Co. represented the tenant in the lease.
WICHITA, KAN. — General contractor partners JE Dunn and Hutton have broken ground on the Wichita Biomedical Campus (WBC), a $172.5 million project rising eight stories and totaling 350,000 square feet in Wichita. The development marks a partnership among Wichita State University (WSU), The University of Kansas (KU) and WSU Tech. The consortium of schools enlisted the design team of Kansas City-based Helix Architecture + Design and Los Angeles-based CO Architects for the interdisciplinary healthcare education destination that will combine several programs into one location. WSU’s College of Health Professions and Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, WSU Tech’s nursing and surgical tech programs and the Wichita campuses of KU School of Medicine and KU School of Pharmacy will collocate at the new campus. Completion of the WBC is slated for 2026. A street-facing, three-story pavilion will house three 80-seat classrooms and will easily convert into an events venue. A portion of the pavilion’s roof will be an outdoor terrace. Inside, shared learning spaces will include advanced laboratories and simulation rooms for hands-on training. The building is designed to accommodate approximately 3,000 students and 200 faculty and staff. The project team also includes mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer Henderson Engineers, structural engineer KPFF, civil …
By Garrett Cohoon, Block & Co. Inc. Realtors The commercial real estate activity in the Kansas City metropolitan area showed substantial growth in 2024 for the retail, multifamily and industrial sectors. The office sector is still seeing record vacancy rates, but the annual loss over 2023 is slowing down. According to CoStar, the office vacancy rate for 2024 is up 11.8 percent in Kansas City while the national index is at a 13.9 percent increase. That’s only 0.5 percent higher than last year in Kansas City and we expect to see that trend turn around in the next year. The retail sector saw new brands like Aritzia grow into the Kansas City market. Whataburger opened its 14th location in the past two years as drive-thru restaurants have continued to be a preference for consumers and investors alike. Wellness-based businesses and health clinics have also made good strides in the market. Kansas City has seen an increase in new experiential attractions this year, including national businesses like Puttery minigolf, Andretti indoor karting and SandBox VR. These new attractions have been key to many new development complexes and redevelopments of existing strip centers. Mattel also announced a new adventure park to be …
LENEXA, KAN. — Gantry has arranged a $32 million permanent loan to retire construction financing for Lenexa Logistics Centre North #5 in Lenexa, a suburb of Kansas City. The fully leased property on Mill Creek Road was completed in 2022 and totals 565,170 square feet. The multi-tenant building offers immediate access to I-35, I-435 and Highway 10. Mark Reichter and Alec Frook of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investor. An insurance lender provided the 10-year loan, which features a fixed interest rate and introductory interest-only period transitioning to a 30-year amortization schedule.
WICHITA, KAN. — BWE has arranged $13.2 million in financing for Iron Horse Building 1, a Class A industrial building totaling more than 200,000 square feet in Wichita. The property is located within the Iron Horse Manufacturing Park and is fully leased to AGCO Corp., an agricultural machinery and precision technology company. Dan Rosenberg, Tim Caffrey and Logan Petersmeyer of BWE arranged the loan on behalf of a Kansas City-based developer through a life insurance company.
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