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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
Someone bought or otherwise sat on the land near the complex and became the 1970s/80s equivalent of the "**** you, I know what I've got," guy on Facebook marketplace.
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Is that right, though, that a lot of the land was held by one party? I know the Block folks had teamed up with Hunt to propose a mixed-use development around 2004, but that didn't go anywhere.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansasci...mixed-use.html
Just looking at the map of the area, you can see why it was available rather inexpensively back in the 1960s and why it would face challenges for development unless a lot of stakeholders really teamed up to make it happen. It looks like it was designed to get traffic in and out in a hurry, not to be a welcoming place for folks to stick around and spend money.