During a seven- to 10-year period, the developers aspire to redevelop the 178.5-acre golf course in Lee’s Summit, Mo. with a total of $231.5 million in private and $36.7 million in public components, starting with a $56.6 million sports village in a northeast portion of the golf course over the first several years. Other early components are to include a 100-room limited-service hotel, within a broader 30-acre commercial area, and about 250 apartments in a multi-family area.
A local partnership is looking to work with Lee’s Summit (Mo.) Parks and Recreation to remake a city golf course with a $268.2 million blend of private mixed uses and public sports facilities, Kansas City Business Journal reported.
The Lee’s Summit City Council recently heard an informational presentation from representatives of a group that includes sporting industry leader Robb Heineman; Bob Becker, CEO of Luke Draily Construction; and the Burgess family, which owns the Shamrock Hills Golf Club in Lee’s Summit, Mo.
During a seven- to 10-year period, the developers aspire to redevelop the 178.5-acre golf course with a total of $231.5 million in private and $36.7 million in public components, starting with a $56.6 million sports village in a northeast portion of the golf course over the first several years, Kansas City Business Journal reported.
Heineman said this area would feature Mammoth Athletic Club, a $25 million sports entertainment venue by Mammoth Sports Construction of Meriden, Kan., with pickleball courts, putt-putt and golf facilities, similar to a Topgolf or T-Shotz. Also included would be a fieldhouse, fitness center, outdoor multipurpose turf field and green space with a dog park, disc golf and fishing. Those uses would total $31.6 million in new facilities to be owned by the city and operated by the parks department, Kansas City Business Journal reported.
Other early components are to include a 100-room limited-service hotel, within a broader 30-acre commercial area, and about 250 apartments in a multi-family area just east, where as many as 600 units could be built over time. Rounding out the proposal are a 35,000-sq.-ft. medical office building; several pad and restaurant sites; and 182 lots for single-family homes, with about 23 acres of lots conceptualized on land that is part of Greenwood, Kansas City Business Journal reported.
In a recent interview, Heineman said he has explored redevelopment of Shamrock Hills Golf Club for about a year. He described Lee’s Summit’s youth sports population as robust but underserved while also highlighting significant residential growth forecast in the city. The golf course is surrounded to its north and west by large tracts of land, included among about 4,200 acres controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and primed for future development, Kansas City Business Journal reported.
“Everything that I look at around sports is, how do we create an experience economy that makes sense and where we can do something that’s cohesive and well thought through?” Heineman said. “As opposed to it just being a bunch of blocks of, ‘Here’s apartments, here’s entertainment, here’s medical office,’ how can we make a day in the life of a constituent that goes to that site … something that is different than what they can find in other places?”
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