Long-stumbling JoCo development to get hundreds more apartments, surgical center
The Overland Park City Council unanimously approved adding more housing and another medical office building to a $400 million development on the former Sprint campus that has been stumbling along and changing shape for years.
The city has allowed developers to change their plan for the 115th Street and Nall Avenue site, known as Galleria 115, several times since the City Council first granted a rocky approval back in 2018.
The council’s unanimous approval on Monday marks the fourth time the developer, Block Real Estate Services, has requested zoning changes, bringing the total apartment count to 838 units — steadily increasing from 678 in 2021, 622 in 2020 and 548 when the project was originally approved in 2018.
So far, 322 apartment units have been built on the site, according to the city’s staff report.
Alongside residential, the developer’s plan for the site now features about 82,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and more than 320,000 square feet of office space.
Over time, the plan has shifted from initially revolving around luxury retail and entertainment — and promising a grocery store — to focusing on apartment housing and office buildings.
Early challenges
Early on, the multimillion-dollar project had a hard time getting off the ground.
Back in 2018, the project was once a joint-venture between Block Real Estate Services and the Retail Connection, a Dallas-based firm that later dropped out, leaving Block to go forward alone.
Overland Park City Council was underwhelmed with the project’s plans at the time including multiple drive-thru restaurants, which did not align with the “high-scale” development they had in mind, but Block promised to build something “first class.”
That same year, Block sued the Sprint Corporation after complications with the property’s sale. In the lawsuit, Block claimed that Sprint was trying to dictate what businesses the developer could lease or sell retail space to, and asked a judge to block a looming deadline until the disagreement was resolved.
As part of the project, the City Council approved a community improvement district in 2017, which initially charged an additional 1% sales tax that the developer could use to pay for certain project costs. Block later sought and received an increased CID sales tax rate to 1.5%, which could generate up to $35 million for the developer.
The city’s incentives put construction deadlines in place as part of a development agreement. However the developer fell short in 2019 and requested a two-year extension.
A few years later, the City Council extended deadlines again through a new development agreement in 2023.
New medical facilities proposed
When the Overland Park City Council approved the amended development plan in 2023, it gave the city more oversight over any new developers that would come to the site.
In a separate approval during Monday’s meeting, the City Council agreed to transfer a parcel of the land within the Galleria development to OPMOB Owner II LLC to build an outpatient surgical center and medical office building.
The transfer request first came before the city back in 2024. Despite recommending approval, the sale and transfer was not completed “as originally anticipated,” according to the staff report.
Now, the developer came back with a renewed request. Spearheaded by St. Louis-based Capital Assets and Development LLC, the group proposes to develop a multi-tenant building on the northwest corner of 115th Street and Nall Avenue that will specialize in physician care and clinical services.
The group built similar buildings in Lee’s Summit — which serves as the clinical headquarters for Sano Orthopedics and Advanced Surgical Associates, according to the staff report.
With the updated development agreement, the Galleria project is required to finish by the end of 2030.
This story was originally published February 9, 2026 at 5:33 AM.
