The Lenexa City Council has approved the final plan for The Yard, an estimated $15 million mixed-use office, restaurant and outdoor-entertainment development planned for the southeast corner of 87th Street Parkway and Renner Boulevard in Lenexa City Center East Village. Plans call for a four-story, L-shaped building with two stories of office space on top of two stories of structured parking, and two levels of retail and restaurant space, according to Development Administrator Magi Tilton in her address to the council at its Tuesday meeting and to a council memo.
The Yard’s outdoor patio space is planned to be integrated with the restaurants and to include pickleball and shuffleboard courts, multiple gathering spaces and seating, a firepit, restrooms and a host station. The Lenexa Planning Commission recommended approval of the project’s final plan at its Aug. 6 meeting, and city staff also recommended approval. The council on Tuesday also approved a public pedestrian access zone easement as part of the project.
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