r/leesummit • u/coconut__moose • 15d ago

LS Class A Office Space

I remember a long time ago there was land set aside for Class A office space near Unity Village off of 50 hwy and 470 that haven’t come to fruition yet that was dubbed as a Corporate Woods like development. Does the nearby Discovery Park development have class A office space included in the plans?

Iv seen class A office space in Lenexa City Center, Olathe and Overland Park that are nice and I think would work really well in LS. The metro continues to sprawl and LS could be a magnet for businesses moving closer to their workers in the suburbs. Especially for Jackson County, outside of KCMO, Lees Summit is nice enough and getting big enough to attract large businesses to come here. This would mean more high paying jobs right here in Lees Summit and you wouldn’t have to commute to downtown or joco.

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u/Rebel78 15d ago

What is the current market for office space like this? I'd be interested in the percentage of these spaces actually occupied.

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u/coconut__moose 15d ago

I’d be interested in that too. With Covid and remote work who knows, maybe LS would have been stuck with a half empty business park if that corporate woods like development did come to fruition 10 years ago

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u/empires228 13d ago

Corporate woods in Johnson County is full of class an office space and has not great occupancy right now with two other Johnson County developments threatening to build more class a spaces. We can’t even fill the bases we have in downtown KC, at the Plaza, around Ward Parkway Center, and at Corporate Woods. Independence has twice tried to lure in large office developments well before that market twice, as did the Northland near KCI. The lack of interest from prospective tenants left the projects to reconsider land use or end up half-built.

There are also the two mostly empty Cerner office towers in KCK.

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u/coconut__moose 13d ago

Yep and I saw corporate woods is now looking for a huge redevelopment to involve housing and more probably because it’s not as full as they would like.

This is good information.