Drive south on Nall Avenue past 115th Street these days and you will pass two active construction sites, a nearly year-old entertainment complex with cars stacked three rows deep in its parking lot, and a stretch of office buildings that have carried the word "Aspiria" on their monument sign for five years now without much to show for it beyond zoning votes. If you have lived near this corner for a while, you already know the pattern. Something gets announced, the planning commission votes on it, the site plan gets revised a year later, and the actual building never quite arrives.
That pattern broke in November. And what replaced it tells you something worth knowing if this corner is part of your daily route.
The First Thing You Can Actually Walk Into
Aspiria is the 207-acre former Sprint Corporation headquarters that sits on Nall Avenue between 115th and 119th Streets, straddling the line between Overland Park and Leawood. Since Wichita-based Occidental Management bought the campus in 2019, the plan for it has changed more than once: office space traded for apartments, apartments traded for a hotel, retail square footage added and then reduced as planners adjusted to what the market would actually support. For years, the only physical evidence of any of it was rubble piles and rezoning paperwork.
Andretti Indoor Karting & Games changed that. The 84,000-square-foot entertainment venue opened at the northwest corner of 117th and Nall on November 18, 2025, and it was the company's first location anywhere in the Kansas City metro. Four separate track levels, each built for a different age group, sit alongside more than 150 arcade games, laser tag, bowling, and virtual reality. It faces directly across Nall Avenue toward the Park Place shopping center in Leawood, which means the intersection that used to be office parking on one side and retail on the other now has activity pulling traffic both ways across the state line.
Almost a year later, Andretti is the proof that Aspiria's public-facing side can actually get built. What comes next is more interesting, because it tells you how much of it will get built and how fast.
Two Restaurants, Not A Restaurant Row
A few hundred feet south, at the southwest corner of 115th and Nall, Branson-based HCW Development is finishing a project that started out bigger than what is actually going up.
HCW originally planned three standalone restaurant pads alongside a new AC Hotel by Marriott on that corner. By the time the company brought a revised site plan to the Overland Park Planning Commission in November 2025, that number had dropped to two. HCW president and CEO Rick Huffman explained the change was about how the buildings would sit relative to Nall Avenue traffic.
"It was a little bit tight with three. Three was just too tight, so we reduced it to two, and we have two national tenants going in there."
Those two tenants are The Capital Grille and Yard House, both owned by Darden Restaurants. The Capital Grille will be the steakhouse chain's second Kansas City-area location, joining its existing spot on the Country Club Plaza. Yard House will be its third in the metro, following locations in the P&L District and at Legends Outlets in Kansas City, Kansas. A third concept, the Mediterranean fast-casual chain Meddys, is not getting its own building at all. It is landing inside a separate 10,000-square-foot multitenant retail building on the same parcel, according to Johnson County Post's reporting on the announcement.
That distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. Aspiria's original master plan called for more than 380,000 square feet of retail across the full campus, the kind of number that suggests a sprawling walkable district. What is actually landing at 115th and Nall this year is two national sit-down restaurants and one fast-casual spot squeezed into leftover retail space, because a developer building on ten acres decided three restaurant pads did not leave enough room for parking and visibility. If you are picturing something closer to a small downtown, that is not what is coming. What is coming is a well-chosen pair of anchors and a hotel.
What's Actually Locked In For Late 2026
Here is what has cleared planning approval and is under active construction on that corner as of this fall, based on reporting from KSHB:
- AC Hotel by Marriott – a four-story, 126-room hotel with roughly 4,500 square feet of meeting and event space and a dedicated wedding suite
- The Capital Grille – steak and seafood, the brand's second Kansas City-area location
- Yard House – the brand's third Kansas City-area location, known for its beer selection and casual American menu
- Meddys – Mediterranean fast-casual, occupying space in the separate retail building rather than a standalone pad
Construction on the site was underway with completion targeted for late fall 2026 when Block & Company, which manages the development, gave its timeline last November. That target has not moved as of this writing, which means the corner is close but not there yet. If you have been waiting to see storefronts instead of framing, the wait runs at least a few more months.
The Part Nobody Has An Answer For Yet
A few hundred feet north and east of this corner, the picture gets murkier. In May 2025, an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals acquired the mortgage on a portion of the Aspiria campus, the part still owned by Occidental Management rather than HCW. The move kept Aspiria in the conversation as a possible stadium site on the Kansas side, though the Royals have said they continue to look at other locations too, and Occidental publicly denied earlier in the year that the campus was being considered for that purpose.
None of that touches the corner where the restaurants and hotel are going up. HCW's parcel is separately owned and already permitted. But it is a reminder that Aspiria is not one project moving on one timeline. It is several developers building on the same former Sprint campus at different speeds, with the office-heavy core still working out what it becomes next while the corner facing Nall Avenue gets finished first.
What This Actually Means If You Live Nearby
If you already live in Overland Park near this stretch, the practical takeaway is simple. Andretti is open now, with hours that shift seasonally around school breaks, so an evening trip is already on the table if you have not been. The restaurant corner is not open yet, and betting on an opening before the holidays would be optimistic given the late fall 2026 target. And the bigger question of what fills out the rest of the 207-acre campus, including whether a stadium ever factors in, is not something even the people building on it right now can answer.
What is clear is that this corner has gone from renderings to real construction faster than almost anything else on the Aspiria campus has in the five years since the rezoning was approved. That is worth watching if you drive this stretch of Nall regularly, whether you are headed to Park Place, to the office towers that still make up most of the campus, or just curious what finally gets built on a corner that took this long to move.
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