Shawnee leaders have decided to dissolve a decade-old public financing district established in hopes of helping spur a housing project at 62nd and Pflumm.
Developers tried twice to move forward with projects at the northwest corner of the intersection, but they never got out of the ground.
In late 2008, the council had approved a project plan and redevelopment agreement with Cobblestone Village LLC for a mixed-use housing and retail project aimed at seniors. That project was never started because of the onset of the Great Recession, so the council terminated the project plan in January 2014 and approved a funding agreement for a new developer, QRivit LLC, to take over a similar plan.
But the updated project plan, which would have had a 14-building, 312-unit apartment complex in it, drew resistance from the neighborhood. The city council rejected it on a 3-5 vote in January 2016 — a move that spurred a lawsuit from the developer. A year ago, a Johnson County judge rejected the company’s claims that the project had been improperly denied and found that the city council had been justified in their actions.
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