Country Club Plaza redevelopment updates

The owners of the Country Club Plaza have ambitious redevelopment plans to transform the area with taller buildings and increased density.

The Gillon Property Group's request for Kansas City to do away with the 130-foot height restriction was approved in September. The development group says they plan to include taller buildings for residential and office purposes and infrastructure improvements. The group is also seeking tax breaks for $1.4 billion in redevelopment.

Members of the public have voiced concerns about losing the Plaza's character and historic charm, with most opposition coming from local preservationists and architects.

A rendering looking west on the Country Club Plaza toward where a Nordstrom store had been promised before the company pulled out. It shows a retail and office tower standing approximately 20 stories tall.

NO. 1: KC TO ALLOW 20-STORY BUILDING ON COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA. MAYOR WEIGHS IN

For three years, the western edge of the Country Club Plaza has sat barren and unused, becoming what Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas once called a three-acre “hole” or “pit.” On Thursday, in a unanimous vote, the Kansas City City Council voted to do away with the 130-foot height restriction on the parcel where a new Nordstrom department store had once been planned, before the company backed out in 2022. | Published September 12, 2025 | Read Full Story by Eric Adler

The Dallas-based Gillon Property Group, owners of the Country Club Plaza, submitted a Master Development Plan Wednesday to Kansas City regarding the district’s possible future. It includes the possibility of buildings as tall as 150-feet to 200-feet. By Tammy Ljungblad

NO. 2: COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA OWNERS REVEAL PLAN FOR TALLER BUILDINGS. SEE THE DETAILS

The owners of the Country Club Plaza, looking to revitalize the Spanish-style shopping district that for 102 years has been considered one of the city’s jewel attractions, both surprised and pleased Kansas Citians in September when it proposed allowing a 275-foot office on the Plaza’s western edge in an empty three-acre lot where a Nordstrom’s department store had been planned and abandoned. | Published October 22, 2025 | Read Full Story by Eric Adler

The Dallas-based Gillon Property Group, which purchased the Country Club Plaza in 2024 for $175.6 million, has proposed the possibility of several 150-foot-tall and 200-foot-tall buildings one day being erected in the 102-year-old, Spanish-style shopping district. By Tammy Ljungblad

NO. 3: WHEN WILL PLAZA CONSTRUCTION START? OWNERS TALK TIMING, PLAN FOR TALLER BUILDINGS

Since June 2024, when a new Dallas ownership group — led by descendants of oil tycoon, H.L. | Published November 14, 2025 | Read Full Story by Eric Adler

The Gillon Property Group, owners of the Country Club Plaza, released a new rendering of the shopping district with as as many as 750 living units inside multi-story buildings.

NO. 4: NEW RENDERING OF KC’S PLAZA SHOWS HUNDREDS OF APARTMENTS, 10-STORY BUILDINGS

The owners of the Country Club Plaza have made no secret of their desire to add hundreds of apartments and multiple 150- to 200-foot buildings to the historic Spanish-styled shopping district, adding density, and what they hope to be new vitality. | Published November 17, 2025 | Read Full Story by Eric Adler

The Cheesecake Factory, 4701 Wyandotte St., on the Country Club Plaza on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, in Kansas City. By Tammy Ljungblad

NO. 5: PLAZA OWNERS SEEK MAJOR TAX BREAKS FOR $1.4 BILLION OVERHAUL PLAN, NEW HOUSING

The Country Club Plaza development team has asked for tax breaks to help cover $1.4 billion in redevelopment that could dramatically remake the historic commercial district, including hundreds of possible new residential units. | Published November 17, 2025 | Read Full Story by Chris Higgins

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