Lenexa City Center, a 203-acre new urban center

Lenexa City Center, a 203-acre new urban center of a suburban community near Kansas City in Kansas, is making tremendous progress — despite the slowdown in the real estate market. Building permits have been issued for two mixed-use buildings totaling 185,000 square feet near the intersection of 87th Street Parkway and Renner Boulevard. These suburban arterials are being transformed — one with roundabouts and the other as one-way couplets — in order to link the four quadrants of this town center, located near a I-435 interchange. Construction is progressing on two of the quadrants and planning on the other two. Although single-family permits are down in Lenexa, multifamily and retail construction have increased, city planners told New Urban News. Further coverage of Lenexa will follow in a coming issue.