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Demolition on the mall began on July 11, 2016, and was finished in January 2017. While developers announced in January 2018 that a redevelopment called Mentum would replace the old mall, this never happened. In October 2021, Olathe-based company Garmin Ltd. indicated that it acquired the property, likely to expand its company's headquarters. [3]
Garmin Ltd. is an American multinational technology company based in Olathe, Kansas. [3] [4] The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communication, sensor-based, and information products to the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoors, and sport markets.
A public hearing for the project is scheduled for the August 2 at the Olathe City Council meeting. The expansion is expected to create 900 new jobs. Garmin asks Olathe to approve $44 million ...
Olathe Township is a township in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2010 census , its population was 137,324. It contains the city of Olathe (for which it is named) and 0.53 square miles of De Soto and Lexington Townships .
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co-founder of the Garmin GPS company Gary Leon Burrell (August 24, 1937 – June 12, 2019) was an American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He was the co-founder, with Min Kao , and chairman emeritus of Garmin , makers of popular Global Positioning System devices.
In 2005, Kao gave $17.5 million to the College of Engineering of the University of Tennessee, $12.5 million of which was designated for the construction of a new facility. [6] In May 2007, groundbreaking ceremonies were conducted for the new Min Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building. The building was dedicated in March 2012. [7]
The Olathe School District has 36 elementary schools, 10 middle schools, and five high schools: Olathe North, Olathe South, Olathe East, Olathe Northwest, and Olathe West. [42] Olathe is the home of MidAmerica Nazarene University and the Kansas School for the Deaf (established in 1861).