It's been a long week. I'm still smarting from being wrong about Beverlee Roper and Costco™ opening a Northland store but figured I'd be a professional and get over it. I'd figured I'd slap a quick post together because the site plan was submitted to KCMO today. The developer has begun work already while the rezoning goes through the process.
This is looking southeast from Platte Purchase towards NW 88th Street where the entrances to the store will be.
This shot is southsoutheast where the south end of the store will be.
This is looking due east where the middle of the store will be. Route 152 would be to the left of the picture. I'm standing on Platte Purchase Drive.
Because of the elevation difference between MO 152 and NW 88th Street, the northern side of the parking lot will have a monster, I'm guessing 15-25ft, retaining wall. That's illustrated on the site plan below with the dark black line around the top and left of the parking lot.
Renderings looks like any other big box retailer. Nothing exciting.
There will be some landscaping on site.
This is just a general comment about all big box retailers and I'm not singling this project out. This is a 17 acre site and how much of it is going to be parking which will never be used so I'll use this as an opportunity to opine for a Strong Towns™ approach of eliminating parking minimums and establishing parking maximums. We're wasting too much land and tax value on a worst case approach for one or two days a year. With online shopping and the 72 hours of "Black Friday" that happen now, will all of these spaces all over suburbia really needed anymore?
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