MISSION, Kan. — There is yet an additional bump in the highway for a Mission progress some get worried will hardly ever get completed.

Tom Valenti of New York’s Cameron Team, the Mission Gateway project’s developer, did not pay out $365,000 in home taxes, in accordance to Johnson County officials.

Mission City Council users were being designed conscious of the delinquent taxes in late May perhaps.

Ward 4 Councilwoman Sollie Flora said this places Valenti at default of the development agreement with the metropolis.

“You know I assume at this place, the council it would seem and certainly the group have dropped faith in the developer,” Flora mentioned. “I seriously like the blended-use undertaking that is been put together for the website so Ideally I’d like to see the developer sell it to somebody else who would get that job performed.”

The project’s web-site claims an experiential spot, including foodstuff, buying, hospitality and amusement.

Right after years of sluggish progress and a stall thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, group users are fatigued of wanting at the project’s skeleton.

“It is hideous, the stairwell for the parking ramp that seems like you could knock it around with a thrust,” Mission resident Cookie Cave said.

Close by small business house owners have grown annoyed with the project’s shaky highway considering the economic likely for the spot.

Mike Alhmood, proprietor of Kinzi Mediterranean restaurant, reported if done, the venture would signify a increase in small business.

“The far more men and women you have about, the extra individuals we have, we have a excellent, pleasant spot below, people today like the meals, but it can be not a crowded location, you have to have to bring in men and women,” Alhmood mentioned. “A little something has to be carried out about it.”

Flora explained council users frequently get inquiries about why the City can not transform the land into a park or green space.

“It is a personal progress, we are not able to just come in and just take the challenge,” Flora explained.

The Town has sent a discover to Valenti. He has 60 times to spend in get to get back again into compliance with the advancement arrangement.

The project’s construction deadline is December 2021.

“We hope he will occur back again to Council before then and give us an update and enable us know if it really is going to be performed by then or not, but the ball is in their courtroom on that,” Flora stated.