The downtown core of Mission, Kansas shares traits with other first ring suburbs around the nation. The area’s positive features include its geographic location, rich social history and a unique shopping area with charming, modest art-deco buildings. Conversely, its negative traits include disinvestment due to competition from outlying suburbs, aging buildings and roads, and piecemeal development with a lack of planning or uniformity. Additionally, extensive loss of green space due to an overabundance of surface parking has almost entirely sealed the commercial area with asphalt. BNIM created a complete master plan for the City of Mission that gives the city a positive direction for the future. The master plan includes design guidelines and a stream restoration plan.

Mission, Kansas
25 acres
Completion: Plans: 2006

The focus of the City of Mission, Kansas, Redevelopment & Stormwater Strategies project was aimed at moving the civic identity and community development for the downtown district of the city into a positive new direction for the future. This new direction includes an enrichment of the existing positive aspects of the city, as well as the re-invention of  the area’s  once-thriving natural Rock Creek watershed.