Developers and Lenexa city leaders last week celebrated the grand opening of The District at Lenexa City Center.
The District at City Center Lenexa is a mixed-use development featuring retail, corporate, residential, civic and recreational components located at West 87th Street and Penrose Lane, across the street from the Public Market and the new Lenexa City Center Library.
In his opening remarks Thursday, Copaken Brooks Principal Keith Copaken welcomed the crowd to “downtown in the making.”
“This is the next generation of suburban mixed use,” Copaken said. “There’s not another development in Kansas City that combines all these pieces of the puzzle together, and that, in large part, is due to the city. I can’t think of another project that has put all this in one place — let alone done it as successfully as Lenexa has.”
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