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The Overland Park City Council on Monday ... the council voted 7-3 just before 11 p.m. to rezone 74 acres at the southeast corner of 175th Street and Pflumm Road for the Schlagel Farms project. It ...
A second, larger project, at the northwest corner of 151st Street and Quivira Road — in Olathe but bordering Overland Park — will be a new medical campus housing primary, urgent and specialty ...
Location of Overland Park (in yellow) within the Kansas City metropolitan area. Overland Park is located in northeastern Kansas at the junction of Interstate 435 and U.S. Route 69 immediately east of Olathe, the county seat. The city center is roughly 13 miles (21 km) south-southwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. [22]
In 2010, Money magazine, in its list of the '100 Best Cities in the United States' in which to live, ranked Overland Park 7th (ranked 6th in 2006 and 9th in 2008) and Shawnee 17th (ranked 39th in 2008). [17] In 2008 the same magazine also ranked Olathe 11th. [18]
The Strang Carbarn became a major driver of employment in Overland Park's early years, and the Strang Line Depot became the heart of Overland Park's downtown. The Strang Line and Strang's other visionary ideas were a driving factor behind Overland Park's unprecedented growth. Today, Overland Park is the second-largest city in the state of Kansas.
An Olathe building — formerly Hobby Lobby and Goodwill — has sat empty for four years.. But the 110,000-square-foot space, at 16630 W. 135th St. near North Mur-Len Road, may soon see visitors ...
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 ...
The area that would become Roeland Park was first developed in 1905 as a streetcar suburb, known as Southridge, by William Strang. Strang's Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway went through Roeland Park on its way from Rosedale to downtown Overland Park. Single-family home construction in this area accelerated during the late 1930s and 1940s ...