Stag's Creek success spurs Shawnee spec office construction

Construction is underway for Stag Commercial's new $7.5 million office project on the northwest corner of Goddard and Shawnee Mission Parkway. The three-story building will be the anchor of the $15.5 million Stag's Creek mixed-use project and is the culmination of a 5-year neighborhood revitalization effort. 

“With an innovative design of steel and glass, Stag’s Creek is filling a strong need for Class A office space in northern Johnson County.” said Kevin Tubbesing, principal with Evergreen Real Estate Services, which is developing the site.

The purely speculative, 35,000-square foot office building will be Shawnee’s first to include enclosed, heated parking and provides the only class A office space along the I-35 corridor between Lenexa and Downtown Kansas City.

Slated for a fourth quarter delivery, the building rounds out a broader redevelopment that involved demolition of a pawn shop, Texas Tom’s restaurant and used-car lot to make way for a new Raising Cane’s restaurant, now under construction, as well as an Andy’s Frozen Custard shop.

“We are turning a distressed commercial area into a new gateway for the City of Shawnee. It’s something the city has been talking about for 30 years," Tubbesing said.

The site presented significant design challenges including flood control requiring realignment of a Turkey Creek tributary. 

“This has been an extremely difficult infill project. I don’t know many projects where you had to relocate a creek,” Tubbesing said. “We were able to create a true public/private partnership with the City of Shawnee to obtain funds for flood control through the county and the City of Shawnee's Economic Development Fund to move the creek and enlarge the developable area.”

Tubbesing said it’s been rewarding to turn the project’s challenges into unique opportunities; typically anchor tenant commitments help finance projects, with pad sites filled later. For Stag’s Creek, the process worked in reverse.

“Because we had interest in these one-story retail pad sites, we were able to take advantage of those demands in the marketplace and sell those pad sites early. That really helped our ability to finance the project,” Tubbesing said. “And I like infill because it creates a change in landscape from what everyone has experienced for years into something new for the community.”

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The Stag's Creek mixed-use project is the culmination of a 5-year neighborhood revitalization effort that involved realigning a Turkey Creek tributary.

Shafer Kline Warren will lead Shawnee $5.2M extension project

The City of Shawnee is investing in an improvement district to better connect area residents to a new 300-unit residential development in Western Shawnee.

Developed by Bank of Blue Valley and Prieb Homes, the new 20-acre single-family subdivision, dubbed Greens of Chapel Creek, will be located between Clare and Gleason roads; However, Clear Creek Parkway currently dead ends after crossing K-7. That’s where Shafer, Kline & Warren steps in.

The improvement district being offered to the developers as an incentive includes $1.6 million in special assessments that will go toward the construction of an extension of a new Clear Creek Parkway. Shafer Kline & Warren has been selected to lead that project, an estimated value of $5.2 million.

As the Clear Creek Parkway project lead, SKW is providing site survey, as well as roadway, lighting, recreational trail and storm sewer design, and the construction observation to ensure the Clear Creek Parkway extension to Clare Road is done according to plan. Terracon will provide geotechnical engineering, while Landworks Studio will serve as landscape architect.

In addition to passing through the new development, the Clear Creek Parkway will split Shawnee Golf and Country Club and include golf cart underpasses. SKW partnered with Landworks Studios to develop the proposed design and landscape architecture that incorporates the stonework and sculptures from the K-7 Bridge into the connection of Clear Creek Parkway and Gleason Road.

Additionally, Brian Johanning, SKW vice president for infrastructure and development, will leverage his 10 years of experience in residential and commercial development as the project’s development liaison to assure the project meets the public and private needs.

“This alignment will be an important and beautiful asset for the community as it grows and develops,” Johanning said. “Each of us on the team at SKW will use our experience and expertise to ensure it fulfills the needs for the developers, the golf course and the entire community.”

The $5.2 million project is underway and is slated to be completed in late 2016.