OP Planning Commission gives OK to rehab hospital at College and Quivira

A 3-story rehabilitation hospital is being proposed for 11325 School Boulevard, simply east of the School and Quivira Street intersection.

The Overland Park Planning Fee gave its okay Monday to a particular use allow and revised preliminary plan that will enable in a single day stays within the constructing, which might be constructed simply south of the Freddy’s and Panera eating places.

The hospital being developed by WB Growth Companions is a part of a nationwide chain of rehabilitation services and would draw sufferers from space hospitals, in accordance with notes on file from the neighborhood assembly. A rehabilitation hospital typically accepts sufferers from different hospitals who’re recovering from strokes or different catastrophic occasions however want remedy earlier than they’re able to return dwelling, mentioned Alex Bennett, who represented the developer. The standard keep could be twelve to 14 days.

Plans are for a three-story constructing of 47,750 sq. ft with 123 parking areas and a most of 40 beds. The location is surrounded by business house, places of work and multi-family dwellings and is already zoned for medical services however wants a allow for in a single day stays.

Nobody spoke on the public listening to Monday, however residents on the neighborhood assembly requested concerning the peak of the constructing, potential visitors via their neighborhood and maintenance of the landscaping. Firm officers informed them the hospital can be decrease than the Freddy’s due to the slope of the land, in accordance with the assembly notes.

The developer additionally will regrade a landscaping berm to make it simpler to mow and change some lifeless bushes across the dry detention basin, Bennett mentioned.

The fee accepted the allow and plan unanimously with no debate. Building is predicted to start subsequent March.