The fate of the massive Brookridge golf course redevelopment remains in serious doubt after the Overland Park City Council decisively trounced a proposal Monday night to negotiate tax incentives to make the project a reality.
The Council voted 8-4 against a request to have city staff negotiate a tax-increment-financing and STAR bonds package for the huge office, apartment and retail development, which is planned southeast of 103rd Street and Antioch Road on the golf course property.
It was a significant defeat, because any final vote on incentives would require nine of the 12 council votes, and this early rebuff showed supporters didn’t even have a simple seven-member majority.
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